Yay there are fluid dynamics metaphors in the latest @ribbonfarm. Boundary conditions even. Not enough fluid dynamics metaphors for my taste, but they are there!https://twitter.com/ribbonfarm/status/1229905587716014080 …
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The latest post reminded me of an earlier Ribbonfarm blog post called Future Nauseous. A lot more people are outside the "Manufactured Normalcy Field" now, on a lot of different topics that affect daily life.https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2012/05/09/welcome-to-the-future-nauseous/ …
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And of course, with the mention of boundary condition metaphors, I thought of this classic from 9 years ago on the Ribbonfarm bloghttps://www.ribbonfarm.com/2011/01/19/boundary-condition-thinking/ …
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I think that eventually we'll get Normalcy Fields back. The outpacing of them is temporary. Of the three words in the phrase "Manufactured Normalcy Field", I think the one that will change the most is "Manufactured".
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I think the manufacturing of the new kind of Normalcy Fields might have a similar relationship to the old kind of Normalcy Fields as "Desktop Publishing" has had to "Publishing" since the 1980s. Traditional publishing hasn't gone away yet, it's adapting. It's not the only option.
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I don’t think we will. At least not global consensus ones like “premium mediocre” or “neoliberalism” It will be much smaller, maybe city-state scale
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Hmm. I think there will be economies of scale for sense-making for some things. Probably not the same things that are global-consensus-like today.
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What makes the city-state scale different?
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For what? I mean, I might agree with you more if you said city, not city-state. It think cities will diverge from each other more as they specialize and/or make good on their unique geology. But would cities take on doing nation-state-like-stuff? Local food trading regulations?
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Old version of my argument, needs updatinghttps://breakingsmart.substack.com/p/the-rise-of-the-caves-of-steel …
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Cities are interesting for sure. Cities are resilient, cities have interdependencies, cities have knowledgeable people that affect wealth and quality of life. Being able to leave and move is important to people in a city. Cities outlast the empires or countries that contain them.
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I mostly agree with the points in the post, but if I had to identify the size of the Normalcy Field implied by the post, I'd point to this handwavy bit: "with a globalist sensibility in the entire global city-state polity rather than a cargo-cult one focusing on a single city"
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