The greatest trick concentrated capitalism ever pulled was convincing the world that its own most destructive tendencies belonged exclusively to communism.
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redesigning the global economy
Tag: systems thinking
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the same problem
The most important pattern in modern society is the one almost nobody is looking for.
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how capitalism reconstructs scarcity
The institutions assigned to solve our deepest problems are sustained by these, the very relations they are unable and/or unwilling to question.
A system cannot sustainably maximise accessibility and scarcity at the same time.
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outer limits: impredicativity
Every explanation of reality becomes another part of the reality left to explain:
E(R) ∈ R → E(R) ≠ R.
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australian universities are broken
The institutions tasked with examining society have become incapable of examining themselves.
The result is a civilisation increasingly confronted by novel problems, yet repeatedly encouraged to admire the elegance with which it preserves the assumptions that produced them.
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systems thinking
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.
Applied Field Logic proposes that persistence is not found in things, but in maintained relationships. This paper develops the mathematical foundations of that claim.
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school days: same as it ever was
Some exits are not failures. They are accurate readings of the room.
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system dynamics: non-linearity
Non-linearity is rarely an explanation in itself. More often, it is a sign that causal structure is richer than our current description captures.
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Applied Field Logic: Climate Change
We require forms of language capable of representing continuity without losing the ability to act locally within it, models capable of preserving the relationship between part and whole without reducing one to the other.
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