The social fallacy: panem et circenses
… Already long ago, from when we sold our vote to no man, the People have abdicated our duties; for the People who once upon a time handed out military command, high civil office, legions — everything, now restrains itself and anxiously hopes for just two things: bread and circuses.
Juvenal, Satire 10.77–81
The change actor: synthesisers
Such an education (n. Odyssean education) and training might develop synthesisers who have 1) a crude but useful grasp of connections between the biggest challenges based on trans-disciplinary thinking about complex systems; 2) a cool Thucydidean courage to face reality including their own errors and motives; 3) the ability to take better decisions and adapt fast to failures; 4) an evolutionary perspective on complex systems and institutional design (rather than the typical Cartesian ‘chief of the tribe’ perspective); and 5) an ability to shape new institutions operating like an immune system that will bring better chances to avoid, survive, and limit damage done by inevitable disasters.
Some thoughts on education and political priorities, Dominic Cummings
The method: causal layered analysis
Causal layered analysis is based on the assumption that the way in which one frames a problem changes the policy solution and the actors responsible for creating transformation.
Causal layered analysis, Sohail Inayatullah
Our mission is to volunteer a insight on challenges by moving away from panem et circenses, appeal to synthesisers and proposing a method for the creation of alternative futures.
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