[lbo-talk] M19 in New York City

[Michael Dawson]

> <<We are at such a point in mankind's evolution where changed conditions
> invalidate all our policies that have been so successful even in the
> recent past, and that presumably have constituted the ideal response to a
> presumably unchanging and unchangeable human condition.  No wonder we are
> stupefied and confused-but our mistake is the same which many cultures
> have made before us, namely to force a rigid model upon a fluid reality.
> 
> Eric Jantsch - "Design for Evolution:  Self-Organization and Planning in
> the Lefe of Human Systems"

This quote is a fine illustration of why "systems theory" is so massively
over-rated.  Every claim in this passage is debatable at best.  "All our old
policies" are dead because they've been rendered unworkable by the world?
Horse hockey.  Many of them are as excellent and relevant as ever, but are
simply "dead" because of politics.  And, meanwhile, how are humans to live
at all without forcing their "models" on "fluid reality?"