Very relevant given the enormous intellectual gravitational pull on me right now emanating from the superstar that is composed of Farrell, Gopnik, Shalizi, and Evans <henryfarrell.net/large-…> <henryfarrell.net/large-…> (plus Fourcade, plus Healy, plus Davies). They are rapidly convincing me that if I am to be actually useful—if I am to have any insight into human society in the rapidly approaching Attention Info-Bio Tech Age mode of production—I need much better and ore serious thinking about bureaucracies, ideologies, and democracies alongside markets and "other social technologies" as powerful organizational technologies. Those profoundly alter the shape and functioning of the East African Plains Ape Anthology Intelligence in which each of us is enmeshed, and that determines the possibilities and scope for our lives:
Kinda want to launch an unironic, on-the-nose pro-bureaucracy discourse. Not even an apologia or defense, just straight up “bureaucracy is actually good and you morons trying to tear it down have no idea what you’re talking about or doing”
My longer-term agenda is to re-imagine and refactor bureaucratic functions and patterns into decentr…
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