Re: <nettime> Managing complexity?

[Morlock Elloi <morlockelloi@gmail.com>]

There are simpler ways of viewing this:

1. The 'complexity' is so complex that individual actors do not matter 
any more, and what is there is new emergent phenomenon so complex it's 
nearly impossible to understand; we need to spend our lives analyzing it 
while in semi-catatonic paralysis.

2. Complexity is sleigh of hand used to shield actors from 
responsibility. It's a new deity, akin to the traditional ones, in whose 
name atrocities were allowed to happen, as nothing else could be done 
without being blasphemous. It became a classical religion, removing 
responsibility from individuals, introducing Fate 2.0, and 
self-reinforcing as it prevents one from going into dangerous and 
correct direction of action, becoming self-preservation vehicle. If you 
think that today's highly liberal educated philosophiles are immune to 
such basic religious contamination, you're an idiot.

Which one is correct? Let's see what those that can do, I mean powers 
that be: when they don't like something, they target and kill, maim and 
imprison *individuals*. From heads of state to inconvenient loudmouths. 
Somehow they don't let the complexity overwhelm them into perpetual 
ruminations in their cabinets. And it works, perfectly: the power of 
dominant powers that be is more solid today than it ever was.

This should give you a hint to the correct answer.

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ru·mi·na·tion/ˌro͞oməˈnāSH(ə)n/
noun

   1. ...
   2. the action of chewing the cud.

Also see https://i.imgur.com/PVpHtDM.jpg



> * The chains of interactions have grown longer. Many (social and
> ecological) systems used to be relatively local phenomena have become

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