Spontaneous order without custody becomes unmanaged emergence methinks... and custody without release becomes institutional capture.
More and more I feel the viable (Carsian) civic organism has to do both: metabolize local reality and refuse permanent possession of what it helps grow...
95% of the way is adopting and playing in the right protocols, while the rest is local leadership/stewardship. There should always be a tension between freedom and order, which is a good tension.
AANDR is my life-cycle of responsible stewardship- bring the signal in, understand it, grow it, protect it, then let it go before care turns into capture... my current *working* civic/living-system loop:
Attract - draw signal, talent, need, attention, and opportunity into range.
Attend - perceive it clearly; hold focus long enough to understand what is actually there.
Nurture - feed, shape, train, scaffold, and grow the useful pattern.
Defend - protect it from predation, entropy, capture, distortion, and premature collapse.
Release - let it propagate, individuate, exit, recombine, or stand on its own before custody becomes possession.
Dream courses.
1. Civil Thermodynamics...
2. Social Metabolics...
Two BADLY necessary CORE subjects absolutely missing from academics...
Seems to me the need is not for academics at all, but local application and replicable proof of concept. If the approach works, someone will know (presumably you).
On my second read. Anticipate a few more.
Spontaneous order without custody becomes unmanaged emergence methinks... and custody without release becomes institutional capture.
More and more I feel the viable (Carsian) civic organism has to do both: metabolize local reality and refuse permanent possession of what it helps grow...
95% of the way is adopting and playing in the right protocols, while the rest is local leadership/stewardship. There should always be a tension between freedom and order, which is a good tension.
AANDR is my life-cycle of responsible stewardship- bring the signal in, understand it, grow it, protect it, then let it go before care turns into capture... my current *working* civic/living-system loop:
Attract - draw signal, talent, need, attention, and opportunity into range.
Attend - perceive it clearly; hold focus long enough to understand what is actually there.
Nurture - feed, shape, train, scaffold, and grow the useful pattern.
Defend - protect it from predation, entropy, capture, distortion, and premature collapse.
Release - let it propagate, individuate, exit, recombine, or stand on its own before custody becomes possession.
Dream courses.
1. Civil Thermodynamics...
2. Social Metabolics...
Two BADLY necessary CORE subjects absolutely missing from academics...
Seems to me the need is not for academics at all, but local application and replicable proof of concept. If the approach works, someone will know (presumably you).