I think the point is that organizations can't achieve goals if there is no overlap in meaning of the goals and mechanisms for achieving the goals. Even if there are a few shared concepts, like money, that's not enough to explain why a transaction would be arranged in the first place -- two agents must have some overlapping reference frame beyond the cost and payment of the service performed.
There are kinds of truth that give near-immediate grounding like fulfilling a delivery in a shared reference frame, or not, and then others that have less direct impact. For many people the difficulty of meeting their short-term responsibilities take all of their attention, and so any obstacle to that (real or imagined) like carbon dioxide caps, is easier to throw into the Facts I will Deny category. Increasing the space of deniable information makes it easier to anonymously externalize costs on others, and on a less obvious horizon, and decreases the cognitive loan on them for attention and reasoning. ============================================================ 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 archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
