C-12. “For want of a nail…”
For want of a nail the battle was lost…. The chain there (from nail to horseshoe, then to horse, etc.) is well known. But what of our lost quality of life (0), our critical unsolved problems? Where is the nail in this picture? What is the chain?
Critical problems go still unsolved for lack of community capability. Community capability is absent for lack of composed procedures for community members to be able to exercise, not just accept, responsibility. Composition is absent for lack of a language which adequately details the making and taking of problem-solving steps. That language is absent for lack of a full understanding of behavior. That understanding of behavior is absent for lack of an appreciation of behavioral necessity with regard to collisions to be arranged and avoided. That appreciation is absent for lack of a full understanding of the implications of the Nature of things. There’s the chain.
The Nature of things: There’s the nail!
(c) 2010 R. F. Carter
Critical problems go still unsolved for lack of community capability. Community capability is absent for lack of composed procedures for community members to be able to exercise, not just accept, responsibility. Composition is absent for lack of a language which adequately details the making and taking of problem-solving steps. That language is absent for lack of a full understanding of behavior. That understanding of behavior is absent for lack of an appreciation of behavioral necessity with regard to collisions to be arranged and avoided. That appreciation is absent for lack of a full understanding of the implications of the Nature of things. There’s the chain.
The Nature of things: There’s the nail!
(c) 2010 R. F. Carter
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