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If a foreign country doesn't look like a middle-class suburb of Dallas or Detroit, then obviously the natives must be dangerous as well as badly dressed.
Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.
Of what does politics consist except the making of imperfect decisions, many of them unjust and quite a few of them deadly?
People may expect too much of journalism. Not only do they expect it to be entertaining, they expect it to be true.
The supply of government exceeds demand.
Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence.
Al-Jazeera should not go unanswered in the Middle East.
A brain is a society of very small, simple modules that cannot be said to be thinking, that are not smart in themselves. But when you have a network of them together, out of that arises a kind of smartness.
All imaginable futures are not equally possible.
An organization is a set of relationships that are persistent over time.
An organization's intelligence is distributed to the point of being ubiquitous.
An organization's reason for being, like that of any organism, is to help the parts that are in relationship to each other, to be able to deal with change in the environment.
And they discovered something very interesting: when it comes to walking, most of the ant's thinking and decision-making is not in its brain at all. It's distributed. It's in its legs.
Basins of attraction, of self organization, show up as well in our complex social environment, in human organizations. Here again, while we cannot predict the result of any given input, we can say that it will likely fall within one of several areas.
But in a turbulent environment the change is so widespread that it just routes around any kind of central authority. So it is best to manage the bottom-up change rather than try to institute it from the top down.
But in fact, when you try to model that on a computer you find that because of the very structure of matter and of the chemical bonds that are the basis of every organism, evolution is not random at all. It will tend to follow certain paths.
But when you are embodied in a location, in a physical plant, in a set of people, and in a common history, that constrains your evolution and your ability to evolve in certain directions.
Changing things from the top down works when things are stable.
Complexity that works is built up out of modules that work perfectly, layered one over the other.
Each organism's environment, for the most part, consists of other organisms.
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