Tom Robbins Even Cowgirls Get the Blues is a romp thru zany characters and ideas. Rereading. P205-210 is amazing. This guy questions control vs freedom in life, and comes up with the core of Resilience Theory - that uncertainty, and therefore adaptability, is the ruling condition in our environment, society and economy. Disorder is inherent in stability. Civilised man doesnt understand stability. Hes confused it with rigidity. Stabilisation to them means order, uniformity, control. And thats a half-witted and potentially genocidal misconception. No matter how thoroughly you control a system, disorder invariably leaks into it. Then the managers panic, rush to plug the leak and endeavour to tighten the controls. Therefore, totalitarianism grows in viciousness and scope. True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, waits to be transformed. It is open to change... It is open, period. Gracefully open. Thats stability. Thats alive. Theres one of the best descriptions of the philosophies underlying new resilience and linked-systems thinking. Robins wrote this in 1976. A seriously on-to-it dude. And people love or loath this book, which is always intriguing.
Posted on: Sun, 06 Apr 2014 01:36:07 +0000
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