{"id":2541,"date":"2007-12-29T17:59:36","date_gmt":"2007-12-29T17:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=2541"},"modified":"2007-12-29T18:01:14","modified_gmt":"2007-12-29T18:01:14","slug":"robb-on-radical-privatization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=2541","title":{"rendered":"Robb on Radical Privatization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>John Robb<\/strong> puts on his futurist hat and engages<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/globalguerrillas.typepad.com\/globalguerrillas\/\/USA%20Inc_2.pdf\"> in some imaginative scenario thinking <\/a>(PDF) over at<strong> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/globalguerrillas.typepad.com\/globalguerrillas\/2007\/12\/privatopia.html\">Global Guerillas<\/a><\/strong>. Note John&#8217;s comment:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;The goal of this brief is to get people thinking about the future in a way that helps them make decisions today.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>John has the methodology right. Most experts, habituated to the over-use of analytical thinking, will try to nit-pick scenarios like these\u00a0to death from the inception<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~s\/typepad\/rzYD?i=http:\/\/globalguerrillas.typepad.com\/globalguerrillas\/2007\/12\/privatopia.html\"><\/script><script charset=\"utf-8\" type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~d\/static\/site-tracker.js\"><\/script> , either reflexively or intentionally in order to avoid having to reexamine cherished ideological assumptions, instead of engaging in the thought experiment. This is the major cultural-cognitive\u00a0reason bueaucracies and academic institutions are notoriously poor at thinking outside the box or anticipating anything other than directly linear outcomes of policies.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Analytical-reductionism was a\u00a0reasonable enough epsitemological\u00a0approach for the 19th and 20th centuries of the &#8220;Second Wave&#8221;, &#8220;Mass Man&#8221;\u00a0 industrial-bureaucratic nation-states. It&#8217;s not enough for the more heterogeneous, alinear, high-velocity, &#8220;complex networks as evolving ecologies&#8221; of the 21st century. We need other cognitive tools in our kit alongside analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Robb puts on his futurist hat and engages in some imaginative scenario thinking (PDF) over at Global Guerillas. Note John&#8217;s comment: &#8220;The goal of this brief is to get people thinking about the future in a way that helps them make decisions today.&#8221; John has the methodology right. Most experts, habituated to the over-use [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[360,46,2,24,327,9,21,37,8,25,78,303,283,270,381,13,463],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-analytic","category-blogroll","category-cognition","category-complex-systems","category-complexity","category-creativity","category-futurism","category-globalguerillas","category-horizontal-thinking","category-ideas","category-john-robb","category-market-states","category-national-security","category-society","category-theory","category-vertical-thinking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}