Posted by Ron de Weijze on December 10, 1999 at 21:22:00:

Science and society mold our understanding up to a point where we cannot tell what is real from what is not real any more. Extremities are actualized at any cost, not only because we can but also because we are driven to by instinct (sensationalism) and economics. Sometimes, somewhere these systems, organizations or cultures turn bitter or sour to some of us, for example during WWII in Germany or Japan. Then who decides what is excess and what is innovation? Believing that the good in complex systems is self-fulfilling and the bad is self-defeating is naive. We are taught that openness is good and that loyalty is good. Yet, outside of scientific and social systems themselves, openness is offensive to loyalty, while loyalty is against openness. How do you control for that paradox and measure balance of organizational environments?

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