NohoBoy@ACDSoft.com wrote:
>
> How do the three users use a DKR to attack this problem?
> I don't see it. Worse yet, most of the serious problems
> that I am aware of, seem to fit this pattern.
>
I don't think that any mechanism in the world will help
people resolve issues that stem from fundamentally disparate
goals. Any communication vehicle that helps them reach
agreement on goals, however, is likely to be of some help,
although no panacea.
Along those lines, I was watching on the PBS the other
day where the Monterey Bay was home to a huge shrimp
fishing industry. It seems they were raking in profits
that quite literally makes today's dot.com startups look
tame.
Although warned repeatedly that they would have to cut
back the "harvest", or else they would destroy the
source, they chose profits and jobs. Result: An immediate
and sudden decline 10 years later, when the shrimp
literally "ran out".
That reminded me of Easter Island, where the indigenous
civilization killed itself off by using up all the trees.
Which we reminded me that we are doing the same thing in
Brazil.
Which made me wonder, once again, if we as a species are
really smart enough to survive. Our doom is rushing upon
us, and we are too witless to realize it.
Unlike Monterey Bay or Easter Island, once we have done it
to the planet, we will have nowhere to go.
Although some lay claim to some form of "intelligent
capitalism" which is supposed to spring into effect to
husband our resources, I really don't see it. There are
too many forces at work that are under too little control.
I continue to hope, so I do what I can in the way of
creating systems that will help us argue out dilemmas
like the one you suggest. But I really, really wonder...
(At times like this, it pays not to be too analytical.)
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