“Conservative concern for making things work is much less appealing in any academic status game than such lofty moralised knowingness.”
I suspect that you mistakenly conceive of “systems thinking” as being unrelated to “making things work” when in fact is is key to making things work *better*. And then you discount the progressive leanings of many such production optimizers as the detached pronouncements of educated elites.
It’s deeply unfortunate that you thereby dismiss the significant value that flows from joining conservative perspectives on what *has* worked (with whatever limitations honestly acknowledged) to the progressive perspectives on what *could* work better (with whatever constraints based on material reality also honestly acknowledged).
Similarly, the managers & bureaucrats who enable such measured progress are not inherently the enemies of “making things work”, though in my experience it is typically those who focus only on what the bureaucracy dictates explicitly — with *no* interest in refining such dictates to better serve the intended purpose — a conservative mindset, who are the most significant opponents of “making things work”.
It’s no longer between the oppressed and the oppressor. Today it’s between lies, corruption, murder and power vs. freedom with ethics, morality and, dare I say, God. The whole oppressed vs. oppressor concept was always a lazy, morally corrupt, thug style mentality that resents beauty, creativity and productivity, it’s just always morphing to advance the gangster style agenda whether it’s education, politics, corporate style monopolies, laws, and religious institutions. Steering the Leviathan back to some sanity, morals, supply and demand economics and enforcing laws that uphold the moral dignity of society seems like an impossible task. The rot runs deep, the lies run deep, and the corruption runs extremely deep. Although your article recognizes some rather obvious epiphanies, you speak of Trump distastefully, you speak of more conservative parties with a degree of repugnance, and yet these movements are developing the strength of momentum to resist the beast. We’re beyond intellectual perfection, we’re beyond fixing this with ideas, the reality today is overcoming the corruption long enough for people to breathe, to regroup, to gain some footing, to stop the bleeding. When you can’t recognize the only solution of the day because you find it distasteful tells me how deep the lies and propaganda have gone in the world of intellectual elitism.
“Conservative concern for making things work is much less appealing in any academic status game than such lofty moralised knowingness.”
I suspect that you mistakenly conceive of “systems thinking” as being unrelated to “making things work” when in fact is is key to making things work *better*. And then you discount the progressive leanings of many such production optimizers as the detached pronouncements of educated elites.
It’s deeply unfortunate that you thereby dismiss the significant value that flows from joining conservative perspectives on what *has* worked (with whatever limitations honestly acknowledged) to the progressive perspectives on what *could* work better (with whatever constraints based on material reality also honestly acknowledged).
Similarly, the managers & bureaucrats who enable such measured progress are not inherently the enemies of “making things work”, though in my experience it is typically those who focus only on what the bureaucracy dictates explicitly — with *no* interest in refining such dictates to better serve the intended purpose — a conservative mindset, who are the most significant opponents of “making things work”.
Happy Holidays, Happy New Year
It’s no longer between the oppressed and the oppressor. Today it’s between lies, corruption, murder and power vs. freedom with ethics, morality and, dare I say, God. The whole oppressed vs. oppressor concept was always a lazy, morally corrupt, thug style mentality that resents beauty, creativity and productivity, it’s just always morphing to advance the gangster style agenda whether it’s education, politics, corporate style monopolies, laws, and religious institutions. Steering the Leviathan back to some sanity, morals, supply and demand economics and enforcing laws that uphold the moral dignity of society seems like an impossible task. The rot runs deep, the lies run deep, and the corruption runs extremely deep. Although your article recognizes some rather obvious epiphanies, you speak of Trump distastefully, you speak of more conservative parties with a degree of repugnance, and yet these movements are developing the strength of momentum to resist the beast. We’re beyond intellectual perfection, we’re beyond fixing this with ideas, the reality today is overcoming the corruption long enough for people to breathe, to regroup, to gain some footing, to stop the bleeding. When you can’t recognize the only solution of the day because you find it distasteful tells me how deep the lies and propaganda have gone in the world of intellectual elitism.