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> We thought the internet would widen our scope. It narrowed it. > What the Internet promised - the great "conversation of mankind" - never emerged. Instead we

> We thought the internet would widen our scope. It narrowed it. > What the Internet promised - the great "conversation of mankind" - never emerged. Instead we got cat memes and social control media that forced people into ever smaller parochial silos. The internet economy enabled browsing on a global scale and, because no kind of agency could keep up with its development speed, pushed everything into an "on demand" culture - what evolved with it is the higher responsibility for consumers. I feel the state of economy before the internet was on a scale of "everything is possible" (in the western hemisphere at least), only to discover years later that "our greed has consequences we just couldn't see before". Our cognitive load feels higher than ever to just cover the basics of survival and not get screwed over, or screw someone else over, constantly. > This is why they should teach history, geography and other cultures in schools. I think system thinking should become a thing in schools early on too. Every defined system is a mere conceptual view with artificial boundaries - a system without boundaries isn't a system, but a universe. It's good to enable new resources to think about new systems, or rethink existing systems, but we also should discuss the boundaries required for its concept to make any sense. I feel that this understanding gets sometimes lost, and its naivety gets regretfully relabeled as "innovation".

soco 2y ago
In a MBA-led economy anything which doesn't create immediate monetary value gets pushed aside - humanities and education in general, for instance. And before somebody jumps: we did have innovation before this just as well.
- nonrandomstring 2y ago
  > MBA-led There are no "leaders" with MBAs
nonrandomstring 2y ago
> we also should discuss the boundaries required for its concept to make any sense. I feel that this understanding gets sometimes lost, and its naivety gets regretfully relabeled as "innovation". Good observation. It gets blamed on globalism, liberalism, post-modernism, capitalism, and a bunch of other things, but somehow we got the wrong idea that all boundaries are bad. Boundaries must be broken! I think that came from the language of science and technology. We made "Smashing barriers!" a synonym for progress. But it is a childish, iconoclastic and directionless notion of "progress", for its own sake. Psychologically at least, a lack of boundaries is a kind of madness, it's disinhibited, intrusive, lacking self-control - and to the extent there's a political theory of mind it leads to wars and internal unrest. We raised "connectedness" to supernatural hoodoo, but connectedness for it's own sake is a catastrophe to systems. It violates the principles of modularity, decoupling and appropriate cohesion.

soco 2y ago

In a MBA-led economy anything which doesn't create immediate monetary value gets pushed aside - humanities and education in general, for instance. And before somebody jumps: we did have innovation before this just as well.

nonrandomstring 2y ago
> MBA-led There are no "leaders" with MBAs

nonrandomstring 2y ago

> we also should discuss the boundaries required for its concept to make any sense. I feel that this understanding gets sometimes lost, and its naivety gets regretfully relabeled as "innovation". Good observation. It gets blamed on globalism, liberalism, post-modernism, capitalism, and a bunch of other things, but somehow we got the wrong idea that all boundaries are bad. Boundaries must be broken! I think that came from the language of science and technology. We made "Smashing barriers!" a synonym for progress. But it is a childish, iconoclastic and directionless notion of "progress", for its own sake. Psychologically at least, a lack of boundaries is a kind of madness, it's disinhibited, intrusive, lacking self-control - and to the extent there's a political theory of mind it leads to wars and internal unrest. We raised "connectedness" to supernatural hoodoo, but connectedness for it's own sake is a catastrophe to systems. It violates the principles of modularity, decoupling and appropriate cohesion.