Systems Keywords
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infrastructure
- industrial-military infrastructure vs "social" infrastructure ("hard" vs "soft" infrastructure)
- hard infrastructure governs technology and the production of, as well as our means of agriculture
- soft infrastructure would be "easy" to replicate after a major catastrophe, as it is instinctive. Yet more people in Britain are employed in soft infrastructure than "hard" infrastructure.
ease
- Thought-comfort, systems prevent the anxiety of having to make decisions
responsibility
- arse-covering, blame avoidance, passing the buck, not actually taking responsibility
intractability
- system becomes a bureaucracy when it is intractable
- people employed within the bureaucracy become all about justifying their jobs
- job-justification is about making the system as obscure as possible - so "only I can do this job"
- jobs for the bureaucrats who can play the system - not the people who are employed in the doing of actual stuff
comfort
- infrastructure, sacrificing freedom for comfort
alternatives
- scheme - more "intentional" than a system, lighter, smaller
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