"The metacrisis" implies the need for a single "metasolution" that fixes everything. That's impossible; there are many, diverse practical problems that need diverse practical ameliorations. https://t.co/8kYYLM3lkO
David Chapmanx.com"The metacrisis" implies the need for a single "metasolution" that fixes everything. That's impossible; there are many, diverse practical problems that need diverse practical ameliorations. https://t.co/8kYYLM3lkO
When we are confronted by multiple interpretations of the “real world,” the alternative to seeking to determine which is “right” is to admit multiple interpretations and seek those that are most useful for a particular purpose, knowing that there is no ultimately “correct” interpretation.
Art Kleiner • The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies for Building a Learning Organization
The problem is that with all that knowledge, it is easy to get overconfident and to rush, simply listing the pressures and putting an intervention against each of them. Down that path lies madness. It is entirely possible for a single pressure to give rise to many interventions and equally possible for one intervention to satisfy many pressures.