Applied Complexity Science. Localism. Homesteading.
Aha! I thought only I knew this cheat code :) Nice thread
It’s Seeing Like a State and it is a very good book for understanding why centralized control schemes fail in the face of living complexity and ultimately kill the things they intend to control
Read as a teenager. Enjoyed it. Had no expectations. Reductionism will make you crazy if you take it too seriously, is the message I got
Bottom line in this tweet, but the entire thread is worth a read Harry has one of the clearest heads around.
Really nice thread giving some solid (heh) thermodynamics intuition
