Re: globalization:poor design?

["Laurence J.Victor" <nuu@azstarnet.com>]

>I agree!  The "Myth" is that its capabilities have already been exhausted,
>and that its finite limits have already been reached.  This myth is being
>promoted by the Club of Rome.  I do not agree with the Club of Rome.  

No person or group has a monopoly on THE  TRUTH, and there is much
that I criticize about The Club of Rome.  However, their second
project, not well known, reported in the book  NO LIMITS TO LEARNING:
BRIDGING THE HUMAN GAP, by Botkin, Elmandjra and Malitza presents the
positive side to the conclusions of their simulation in THE LIMITS TO
GROWTH.  The latter simply said that if we continued to do business
has we have, then the MODEL of that system, collapses.  This in no way
claims that there aren't other ways of "doing business" with GAIA and
with ourselves.  The Club of Rome studies only places limits on one
mode of doing things. One of their unique contributions was the
concept of the Global Problemateque -- which implied that in very
complex systems, the problem-solution techniques itself is a source of
great difficulty -- that good solutions to problems in one domain can
destabalize the whole to create a backlash to counter the supposed
success of the solution.  This proposition, and the book by Donald
Michael, ON LEARNING TO PLAN AND PLANNIING TO LEARN, in the early
1970s led me to conclude: REFORM IS IMPOSSIBLE: The Transformation of
large, complex and dysfunctional systems by gradual incremental
operations to a new state where the dysfunctions are absent is
impossible. This led me to investigate other means of change --
including insect metamorphosis and emergence.

Larry Victor


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