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| Subject: Why do some societies make disastrous decisions | Date: 5/5/2003 4:58 PM | |
| Author: solasis | Number: 254 of 297 | |
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by the author of guns germs steel http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/diamond03/diamond_print.html didn't anticipate a problem before it arrived may have had prior experience but that prior experience has been forgotten reasoning by false analogy failing to perceive a problem that has actually arrived. some problems are literally imperceptible the problem may take the form of a slow trend concealed by wide up-and-down fluctuations distant managers, a potential problem in any large society failure even to try to solve a problem that it has perceived clashes of interest tragedy of commons strongly attached to a bad status quo because it is favored by some deeply held value that we admire psychological denial too little too late problem may just be too difficult, and beyond our present capacities to solve |
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