11/ we can not step back one step to X,Y because when we do so, we are no longer at the topmost possible value of the multi-valued function, but are at a much lower tier one simple example of this concept is what if we built technology A, then with that B, then with that C ...
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12/ ...and eventually we get up to Q, and we still remember the predecessor technology P, but have forgotten the details of A through O. If we choose to do something to destroy Q, we may be screwed, and have to start over at A. Imagine if we threw away nuclear technology now
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13/ ...and forgot all of the details of it in a generation ...but at this point, all of the easily accessible oil and coal are gone. That's one example. There are others. I suggest that this applies in social tech as well as energy etc tech.
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14/ If you burn down the Enlightenment, or stigmatize and devalue Kegan level 4 norms ("we must all abide by the rules, such as the SCOTUS and the fillibuster, even if they hurt us in a given electoral cycle"), can we step BACK into those norms 5 or 25 years later, or >>>
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15/ ...do we have to laboriously climb the hill a second time, over 2 or 5 or 15 generations?
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16/ People are playing with fire.
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ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Todd Barrett
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19/ on my "to read list" https://www.amazon.com/Collapse-Complex-Societies-Studies-Archaeology/dp/052138673X … The Collapse of Complex Societies (New Studies in Archaeology) Reprint Edition by Joseph A. Tainte
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ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Benjamin I. Espen 🏛
29/ my man! this is just the one I had in mind!https://twitter.com/BenEspen/status/1483902220286316546 …
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30/ ah, wait, not EXACTLY The one, but close enough !
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This one is Zeeman's Catastrophe Theory http://www.gaianxaos.com/pdf/dynamics/zeeman-catastrophe_theory.pdf …
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