Virtue: Religion and Philosophy, What does the Founders’ Vision Embrace?
Common wisdom among the right is that we are in trouble as a society because we have chased God from our institutions and are no longer religious. Their solution is to bring religion back into our institutions to re-institute…
Operant Conditioning, Path Dependency and Societal Revolution, Part 1
First a disclaimer. I dislike the practice of operant conditioning. It robs a person of their free will and inherently erodes virtue. Now there are some people in the neuroscience community that say freewill does not exist. While I cannot…
Part 3: Pathbreaking Conceptual Framework, Three examples
Path dependencies and punctuated equilibriums can come in a variety of settings, ranging from the policy issues that True, et al. (2007) discussed, to war and other catastrophic events, to deliberate strategy. Sometimes, two or more of these situations work…
Part 2: The Conceptual Framework
Equilibriums are interesting. They seem to fly in the face of the Second Law of thermodynamics, which states that systems move from a state of order to a state of chaos. This process is called entropy. But the word equilibrium…
Part 1: Is Your Culture Like a Railroad or a Multi-modal Transportation System?
Figure 1 Railroad Tracks, the New Replaces the Old There is a natural conflict between the new and the old. Sometimes, the new destroys the old and replaces it, as shown in Figure 1. At other times, the new embeds…
