Doug, I think it's a poor move to use a model--did the Officers use a model for their article in Time?--to fix blame with such confidence especially when the thing to blame is a vague collective identity. Granted, sometimes it seems that such fixing is needed because we need to reaffirm our own group identifications especially if they are under attack or ignored and more so if we are in political season. The point of Buchanan's article, I think, is that models are good at generating alternative narratives about causation in systems where no single person or group of people can ever know 'the system' and the experts and stakeholders all see the system in different ways, with different stories about how the system works. I think a more ambitious goal for modeling these systems is bringing together or overlaying (integrating?) these local stories into a sort of meta-narrative. Matt
On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 8:44 AM, Douglas Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On another mailing list that I frequent, there is a small core of > Republicans who *insist* that is was the DemoCRAPS[sic] who caused our > current economic crisis. > > I sent the following message to them yesterday, after finding the nice, > short informative article in Time (link below). I find that it is sometime > necessary to use small words when dealing with political zealots. > > Astonishingly, it was not the DemoCRAPS[sic] who were the cause of our > current financial fuck-up. Read this short article to discover who is > really to blame. > > Can you say, "Risky derivatives trading"? Can you say, "Irresponsible > hedge fund management"? > > I knew you could. > > http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1845209,00.html?cnn=yes > > > Me, I'm an independent. > > --Doug > > -- > Doug Roberts, RTI International > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 505-455-7333 - Office > 505-670-8195 - Cell > > On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 9:29 AM, glen e. p. ropella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> >> >> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/01/opinion/01buchanan.html?_r=3&ref=opinion&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin >> >> -- >> glen e. p. ropella, 971-219-3846, http://tempusdictum.com >> >> >> ============================================================ >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >> lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > > > > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
