Doctoral research promises original thought, but the institutional machinery that recognises and rewards knowledge systematically reproduces precisely that ignorance it exists to supersede.
Doctoral research promises original thought, but the institutional machinery that recognises and rewards knowledge systematically reproduces precisely that ignorance it exists to supersede.
A school can teach systems thinking and still fail to recognise the system it has become. The paradox is not educational but civilisational: systems routinely develop the capacity to analyse (and acknowledge) everything except the conditions that organise and sustain their own perception.
A system can become so effective at measuring, managing, and reproducing its own internal assumptions that it gradually loses the ability to perceive the external reality those assumptions were originally created to address.