Well, I'm glad some people get it, 'cause I was beginning to think I was the only one who saw it.
I'd been thinking recently that there must be some kind of inherent dynamic instability in human social systems, with tipping points in every direction and all roads leading straight to perdition.
I vaguely remember studying models analogous to that in Stephen Grossberg's work on competitive systems — I think he rube-i-sized the scheme as “Winner Take All†— but what we are seeing here is more like “
Winner Inherits The Windâ€.
Still, that's not quite it.
The catch is that we should not confuse a collection of porticles in a communication medium with a human social system. That is like confusing a dung heap with a population of dung beetles.
Jon (IMG:
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There is a slide in human affairs …, that, taken at the slope, slips on into slop …
Jon Awbrey There is a slide in human affairs … 
