(via infinitebutterflies)
a typical workday goes like this …
transformation of workplaces and organization
Why is - or should be - freedom the most valuable asset of any human society?
Can’t order, rule of law, morality, solidarity, respect and ethos be equally or more important?
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The single most important feature that differentiates the human race from other living forms on Earth is the ability to create, disseminate and live by memes.
The ability to adapt, or even excel, in a changing environment is dramatically raised with the deployment of memes. Evolution of genes can be way too slow in many cases, especially with more complex genetic organisms. The memetic evolution can equip humans much faster with necessary organizational, psychological and technological tools, than genetic evolution could do.
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Memes can be destructive, too. Some memes seek longer life and greater survival rate by slowing down the memes evolution in the memetic race they inhibit - the society. Prohibiting other memes to compete with them helps these memes succeed on the short run, but in the longer term, it might very likely afflict a deadly blow to the memetic race, which, in turn, could kill these destructive memes, too.
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Any healthy memetic race should ensure, that meme evolution is fast enough to provide the society with the necessary tools to excel in a competitive or hostile environment.
This is my definition of freedom.
Every other feature that used to be recounted as important building stones of an excelling society - solidarity, fraternity, order, justice, egality, good morales, discipline, national pride, etc. - are just functions or outcomes of a vivid memes metabolism.
next democracy - voting
when i say, i believe in something, i mean:
based upon my experiences and gut feelings, i put a truckload of trust into something.
so much trust, that i can pursue a goal in spite of all contrary forces. i go on, even when everybody - or most people - tries to distract or talk me off doing it, and every - or most - reaction in my environment is unnerving.
i always keep up a specific place for doubt. i don’t give too much time and energy to it, but it has a place. i do not take it for impossible to be convinced out of my belief. it is an option, that i can handle. if it happens, it would strike me hard, but it would not destroy my personality.
belief = focusing energy
doubt = reality check
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2009/03/16/how-rich-countries-die/
Rich and long established societies grow a feature, that inevitably slows their growth of wealth and creativity and kills them at the end.
This feature is the established special interest group.
Special interest groups need time to form, but once there, and well established, they are hard to get rid of them, and they burden the economy and the society in every step they make.
Special interest groups bring about:
- legislation, that favor few, and destroy society in general
- complexity in regulation, in the procedures of public administration, and in the extensive use of professional languages that deprives ordinary citizens to have an understanding of the decisions affecting all of their lives
- lack of motivation in ordinary citizens to try to influence common causes
- shrinking competition by raising high the entrance barrier in front of disruptors to enter both the economic and political markets
[- this is also true for memes - in this case, innovative policies that could grow welfare, or insure sustainable economy, more security, less dependency on critical foreign resources, that could produce more happiness or eventually save the world on the long run]
- ‘reduced the rate at which resources are reallocated from one activity or industry to another in response to new technologies or conditions’ - wanna see examples? one word: bail-outs.
Enough of the recounting of harm for today.
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