Recommended Reading and Viewing

Howard Bloom at Kurzweilai.net – Is the iPad the New Guillotine?

….Most people mean well when they go to work. Most want to do good. So how did the bureaucratic system become vicious? The cruelty of bureaucracy comes from the isolation of bureaucrats among their peers, the isolation of bureaucrats from the people they serve. Those who never have to face their customers and their constituents can treat their clients with savage indifference. On the other hand, those who know the people they serve as human beings are far more likely to respond with care, creativity, and empathy. And thanks to Google, private databases remotely available via laptop, and IM, text messages, and cell phone calls, bureaucrats no longer need to be isolated in cubbyholes attached to endless corridors filled with other bureaucrats. They can go out among the fellow humans to whom their services have been marketed and promised

The anti-bureaucratic jihad of Howard Bloom. 

Insurgent Consciousness – Mexican Bandhs

….Greg and Jan may be correct that government  forces are winning tactically.  Nonetheless, tactical military superiority will not necessarily produce strategic success.  

Consider the Zetas’ attempt to free their boss described above.  If we look narrowly at this operation, it looks like a Zeta failure; the Mexican Army convoy carrying El Tory managed to escape the Zetas’ blockade.  Nonetheless, if we conceive of the blockade as a bandh, and not merely as an effort to free the boss, the Zetas’ chances for continued success in this city increase.  The Zetas have used such blockades for this purpose before.

RECOMMENDED VIEWING:

3-D Map of the Universe

Edward Luttwak on “The Grand strategy of the Byzantine Empire”

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