Friday, September 12, 2014

Policy Agility Games. Join THE MOVEMENT TO RETHINK POLICY SPACE .... FAST ENOUGH TO MATTER

(Commentary posted by Roger Erickson)

Yet another toe has recently been placed in the water (or extended across the gap).





JOIN THE MOVEMENT TO RETHINK ECONOMICS
It's a good start, but heck, that's just a part of our task. It does no good to rethink any part of a whole, if we can't rethink every part, as well as rethinking the whole. That's true simply because - to remain a whole - EVERY part of any whole has to accommodate and adjust to changes in any component part, in real time.

We need far more of these self-organizing efforts, one for every old & emerging discipline ... and across them too.

Until then, too many citizens - and especially lawyers - miss the fact that
AdaptiveRight and CopyRight must be constantly coordinated, to manage the inherent conflict between those two strategies.

When it comes to rethinking exploration of policy space ... there is no half way. If we can't rethink everything fast enough to evolve our nation, then there's no point in rethinking anything.

American policy can't reflect what the growing numbers and diversity of Americans know ... unless we distribute emerging data as fast as the rising demand to explore our emerging options.

Exploring Policy Space requires Policy Agility, which requires Autocatalysis, which means actively driving the TEMPO and BREADTH of new feedback distribution as fast and far as needed.

Every sports team and army knows that. Why isn't the same obvious for all members of every evolving culture? Until it is, we can't achieve an informed electorate, or an agile culture.

When it comes to political-economics, there's a simple point to remember. Our ratio of personal-hoarding to communal-provisioning determines our rate of domestic as well as global nation-building.

Adaptive Rate is neither left nor right ... it's OpenSource!

So how do we OpenSource our own National Adaptive Rate? One piece at a time? Or all of it? After all, recognizing Policy Space does no good, if we haven't already achieved Policy Agility through extensive practice. That's like reading a book and recognizing that you could in theory ride a bike. It still takes practice, to automate all the reflexes that can keep you from falling off. We need a LOT more cultural practice, at all forms of Policy Agility.  Let's go beyond the SuperBowl, and have continuous Policy Agility games.

The saddest part? We knew this 200 years ago.
"A popular government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”
James Madison in his 1822 letter to W.T. Barry

And of course there's more. Even people armed with knowledge - or other things - aren't saved, until they accumulate enough practice at effectively wielding their assorted "armaments."  In the end, we are what we practice, not what we possess. The importance of our dynamic assets ALWAYS significantly outweigh the value of our static assets.




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