Excellent points. Chaos and human nature. Sadly, I believe many chaos theorists today believe (mistakenly) that they can eventually map all the permutations and predict (and perhaps control) human society.
Thanks for bringing Heinrichs’s piece to my attention. She makes a point that’s long frustrated me: the people who call themselves “realists” don’t actually seem to be the most realistic - that’s just the name they give to their set of foreign policy preferences.
I look forward to this new chapter for the Freemen Online!
I also read and enjoyed the book more than the first Jurassic Park movie, exactly because of your point: chaos theory., and it's implications. Once an action is taken you can't control all possible outcomes because it's impossible to predict them. Your link to the flaws of utopian government is a great lesson -- government control is a very expensive and misguided illusion.
Intrigued and a little nervous about the local connections. Nothing more utopian than right-of-right UT conservative-think. Please tell me there's a middle ground
I haven't really thought this through, but on an impulse I'll just mention that maybe the LDS believer's barrier to getting a proper grasp of what a utopia can be, is that so few of us, including myself, comprehend that the ultimate utopia ("heaven") is where reigning and serving are two labels for the same activity.
Scanning the overall national health of conservatism and the Republican Party, Utah is actually in much better shape than most "red states." For now, I'm pretty optimistic about our future.
Excellent points. Chaos and human nature. Sadly, I believe many chaos theorists today believe (mistakenly) that they can eventually map all the permutations and predict (and perhaps control) human society.
Thanks for bringing Heinrichs’s piece to my attention. She makes a point that’s long frustrated me: the people who call themselves “realists” don’t actually seem to be the most realistic - that’s just the name they give to their set of foreign policy preferences.
I look forward to this new chapter for the Freemen Online!
Yes, that's part of what I meant by the rabbit hole of diving too deeply into chaos theory. It can lead to headaches. Lol.
I also read and enjoyed the book more than the first Jurassic Park movie, exactly because of your point: chaos theory., and it's implications. Once an action is taken you can't control all possible outcomes because it's impossible to predict them. Your link to the flaws of utopian government is a great lesson -- government control is a very expensive and misguided illusion.
Intrigued and a little nervous about the local connections. Nothing more utopian than right-of-right UT conservative-think. Please tell me there's a middle ground
I haven't really thought this through, but on an impulse I'll just mention that maybe the LDS believer's barrier to getting a proper grasp of what a utopia can be, is that so few of us, including myself, comprehend that the ultimate utopia ("heaven") is where reigning and serving are two labels for the same activity.
Scanning the overall national health of conservatism and the Republican Party, Utah is actually in much better shape than most "red states." For now, I'm pretty optimistic about our future.