Directed Culture Trials

Unless we find new ways to drive adaptation besides mass death and fragmentation, our civilizations may keep falling and rising indefinitely. I see 3 new ways: let capitalism run most all life areas, run small groups by speculative market estimates of future group adaptive success, or run big groups by such price estimates of achieving big goals in conflict with civilization collapse. All three ways rely on strong selection among market traders creating information that lets groups stay adaptive without their death or division. (More)Those are three plausible strategies to drive an effective governance process to promote cultural adaption. But effective processes must then induce the more specific activities and choices that would actually be effective at inducing healthy cultural evolution. And I haven’t said much about specifically what those would be. I’ve also suggested that a good preparation for any of these approaches would be to get good at managing corporate cultural change.…