http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/the-social-temperature-1811 Free science and engineering in the global public interest Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:07:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/the-social-temperature-1811/comment-page-1#comment-10656 The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution › Five verses on the gap, and addendum Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:45:50 +0000 http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/?p=1811#comment-10656 [...] was taught about this in detail. I’ve taken some of that work and turned it into the social thermometer. Other parts are metabolized into the Awful Play, the Musical Comedy from Hell, which I will not [...] [...] was taught about this in detail. I’ve taken some of that work and turned it into the social thermometer. Other parts are metabolized into the Awful Play, the Musical Comedy from Hell, which I will not [...]

]]> http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/the-social-temperature-1811/comment-page-1#comment-10473 Chris Naden Sat, 10 Dec 2011 08:54:49 +0000 http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/?p=1811#comment-10473 Convergence is interesting. Robert Anton Wilson mapped social orders in general into a *very* similar model back in 1975, with Chaos - Order - Confusion - Bureaucracy - Aftermath. I think your model is more useful, unsurprisingly. His was designed to shock open minds which had not yet dreamed our world. Yours is applying things we actually know to a world that you can see. Convergence is interesting. Robert Anton Wilson mapped social orders in general into a *very* similar model back in 1975, with Chaos – Order – Confusion – Bureaucracy – Aftermath. I think your model is more useful, unsurprisingly. His was designed to shock open minds which had not yet dreamed our world. Yours is applying things we actually know to a world that you can see.

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