Recommended Reading

March 1st, 2009 by zen

I should have brought this forum to the attention of readers earlier when I was first contacted by Ed Beakley of Project White Horse, unfortunately I was totally buried at the time at work, school,  and with side projects and I never attended to it. Some important thinkers are involved in the discussions there on resilient communities and related subjects, including Col. GI Wilson, Lt. John Sullivan, Fabius Maximus and senior officers from several militaries.

Opposed Systems Design – Dr. Steven Biddle, who was in discussion with Col. TX Hammes, comes out in favor of Frank Hoffman’s “Hybrid War” scenario as a basis for planning assumptions.

Zero Intelligence Agents – Networks and ‘Implication for Network Centric Warfare’

Drew Conway on the further evolution of the Big Cebrowski’s theoretical legacy in a paper by Dr. Jessica Glicken Turnley on NCW.

Futurejacked – The Elites Must Be Brain Dead

A very intriguing story from the perspective of societal legitimacy and elite behavior.

Don Vandergriff – Did aversion to bitter tastes evolve into moral disgust?

A little Ev-psych.

That’s it !

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  1. tdaxp:

    March 1st, 2009 at 7:09 pm

    Could you say more about Dewey?

  2. andrewdb:

    March 2nd, 2009 at 4:45 am

    Note that FPRI puts up podcasts of some of their stuff (but not an RSS feed to them) here:

    http://fpri.org/multimedia/

    The Biddle/Hammes cage match is one of them.

  3. Arherring:

    March 2nd, 2009 at 2:59 pm

    Thanks for the link!
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    As my grandfather always said, I don’t care what you call me, just don’t call me late for dinner. 😉

  4. zen:

    March 3rd, 2009 at 5:35 am

    Hi Dan,
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    Dewey was certainly politically Left-Progressive and a philosophical pragmatist, so while he fits in with the thrust of the social reform angle the author was going for, the linear thinking, not so much. The article left an impression with me that the author associates Dewey with the Lancasterian system and Taylorism in the classroom. That’s not the Dewey I recall.
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    Hi Andrewdb,
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    Thanks!
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    hi Arherring,
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    Anytime!

  5. ArianaMefe:

    May 14th, 2009 at 5:29 am

    hi, thanks,The article was very well written, very helpful to me