"Anyone (professional or nonprofessional) who is trying to accomplish positive cultural change in the real world and who would like to base their efforts on cultural evolutionary theory."
What is "positive"? What if culture is nothing more than inertia and mean reversion that inhibits individuals from turning over every rock and looking at every possibility? Is that hypothesis not "positive"? Down-sizing and extinction events happen in biological evolution, will these kinds of events be studied? If so, are such events not "positive" or just part of the natural world? Is it negative to relate cultural phenomena like fundamentalist religions to economic vitality? Or if one can think about whatever, can one define it for myself as "positive" and that'll do? Is this an "activist society" because there are good outcomes to seek that are self-evident to the group, and that one ought to know, or just because experiment is essential in learning about cultures work and so trying stuff out will be informative? What experiments are off limits, e.g. is this a U.S. based organization -- hard to know since they hide their domain registration! Marcus ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
