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The harmful industrial mechanistic viewpoint.

Started by droqen, February 17, 2023, 09:04:33 PM

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droqen

This synapse (the very first!) is about this reiterated idea that the 20th-century schools of thought regarding productivity and what not are harmful in specific ways. First encountered in The Nature of Order, synapsed in Thinking in Systems.

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". . . the mind-set of the industrial world assumes that there is a key to prediction and control."

~ Thinking in Systems

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Christopher Alexander talks specifically about the 20th-century mechanistic viewpoint multiple times throughout The Nature of Order, but I don't particularly have any quotes to pull at the moment.

~ The Nature of Order