Recipe for Modernism
Here is the recipe:
- Look at a complex and confusing reality, such as the social dynamics of an old city
- Fail to understand all the subtleties of how the complex reality works
- Attribute that failure to the irrationality of what you are looking at, rather than your own limitations
- Come up with an idealized blank-slate vision of what that reality ought to look like
- Argue that the relative simplicity and platonic orderliness of the vision represents rationality
- Use authoritarian power to impose that vision, by demolishing the old reality if necessary
- Watch your rational Utopia fail horribly
Notes:
Folksonomies: complexity governance utopia
Taxonomies:
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/law, govt and politics/politics (0.749310)
Concepts:
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Bounded rationality (0.880267): dbpedia_resource
Irrationality (0.820636): dbpedia_resource
Philosophical terminology (0.759856): dbpedia_resource
Flipism (0.689060): dbpedia_resource
Sociology (0.687821): dbpedia_resource
Failure (0.644805): dbpedia_resource
Visual perception (0.627417): dbpedia_resource
A Big Little Idea Called Legibility
Electronic/World Wide Web>Internet Article: Rao, Venkatesh (July 26, 2010), A Big Little Idea Called Legibility, Retrieved on 2023-01-05Source Material [www.ribbonfarm.com]
Folksonomies: complexity modernism