Listening to Jeff Booth (nprofile…4hxr)'s Price of Tomorrow. I appreciate his thoughts on the momentum of patterns--in systems, in culture, in ourselves.
It reinforces my belief that systems inevitably fail when they are disconnected from the natural world. When they are reduced from complex systems with free will and trillions of variables, down to complicated systems with predictable inputs/outputs and limited variables. As one does when they nuke the soil in a thriving grassland with chemicals and tillage, reducing it down to a dead and predictable growing medium for an engineered crop with engineered inputs. (Eventually the externalized costs from unforseen or unintended consequences are too much to bear and the system breaks down.)
The same, I would argue, occurred when countries left the gold standard--disconnecting the economy from a complex natural system (limited by the natural world and at the mercy of the free market) and created a complicated and controllable economic system.
But. There are just too many variables to juggle indefinitely when shoehorning a natually complex system into a complicated system's framework. We miss thimgs. The human brain can't keep up. You end up with a wobbly tower of quick-fixes and half-measures that eventually topple.
Either your fields are farmed out (which happened here) or your currency is debased.
Humility fixes this. We can operate within systems we don't control to the benefit of the system and those who play well within it. Deflation is the default state of the economy and abundance is the default state of the natural world.
My two sats. Would welcome rigorous debate.
jsm
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