Working with worldviews and values is slippery. What is helpful is to understand that both worldviews and their matching social forms are mixes. A primarily Modern worldview person or organization will still have Traditional, Postmodern, and even a few Integral values. How those express is contextual. Reading your take on LDS & the Dream Society showed me that LDS like most of society is a Traditional + Modern worldview mix (T+I+M in Ronfield's social form framework), and it is treating Postmodern (+N) as a potentialy disruptive or harmful worldview. What I didn't see in your article, again reflecting society at large, was any signals of an emergent +N network based social form starting to pick up govenance & social organizing roles. Without a +N social form, Postmodern is stuck just being a set of values being haphazardly applied. That is my biggest criticism of Dator's Make-Belief book. He never showed how the Dream Society was trying to create change it wants by creating governance mechanisms consistent with its values. He talks about new government mechanisms, but they are disconnected from Postmodern core values
Tim, thanks for another great comment. I always have to digest them for a few days. I guess what I am missing conceptually is the connection between Postmodern values and the associated institutions. Maybe I just need to read more Ronfeldt, or maybe it's in the "Mean Green Meme" content, but so far all I've seen in terms of Postmodern governance strategy is tearing down statues (existing institutions) without building much of anything new. I think of Critique as the fundamental methodology of Postmodernism (but maybe I'm just conflating the values with the ideology?).
That is one I still struggle with too. The way I bridge the deconstruction/critique mindset of Postmodern with Ronfeldt's+N Networks is to think in terms of Point-to-Point (P2P) exchanges between nodes on a network. The network "wants" all nodes to be a) unique & b) equal (independent) so that as nodes & links are connected to the network they try to deconstruct any restrictions on each node's uniqueness ("personal truth") and artificial restrictions/command structures (hierarchies, chains of command, etc). Another way of putting it is that the core Postmodern value is to dissolve hierarchies of control and command authorities. In that desire for equality & democracy it blows up sources of "absolute" truth and valorizes individual truth. That last bit is where the MGM emerges as unhealthy (from a social order pov) narcissism. An old aphorism about the Internet is that it treats censorship as damage and routes around it. Postmodern worldview similarly treats AUTHORITY as damage and tries to disassemble it
Working with worldviews and values is slippery. What is helpful is to understand that both worldviews and their matching social forms are mixes. A primarily Modern worldview person or organization will still have Traditional, Postmodern, and even a few Integral values. How those express is contextual. Reading your take on LDS & the Dream Society showed me that LDS like most of society is a Traditional + Modern worldview mix (T+I+M in Ronfield's social form framework), and it is treating Postmodern (+N) as a potentialy disruptive or harmful worldview. What I didn't see in your article, again reflecting society at large, was any signals of an emergent +N network based social form starting to pick up govenance & social organizing roles. Without a +N social form, Postmodern is stuck just being a set of values being haphazardly applied. That is my biggest criticism of Dator's Make-Belief book. He never showed how the Dream Society was trying to create change it wants by creating governance mechanisms consistent with its values. He talks about new government mechanisms, but they are disconnected from Postmodern core values
Tim, thanks for another great comment. I always have to digest them for a few days. I guess what I am missing conceptually is the connection between Postmodern values and the associated institutions. Maybe I just need to read more Ronfeldt, or maybe it's in the "Mean Green Meme" content, but so far all I've seen in terms of Postmodern governance strategy is tearing down statues (existing institutions) without building much of anything new. I think of Critique as the fundamental methodology of Postmodernism (but maybe I'm just conflating the values with the ideology?).
That is one I still struggle with too. The way I bridge the deconstruction/critique mindset of Postmodern with Ronfeldt's+N Networks is to think in terms of Point-to-Point (P2P) exchanges between nodes on a network. The network "wants" all nodes to be a) unique & b) equal (independent) so that as nodes & links are connected to the network they try to deconstruct any restrictions on each node's uniqueness ("personal truth") and artificial restrictions/command structures (hierarchies, chains of command, etc). Another way of putting it is that the core Postmodern value is to dissolve hierarchies of control and command authorities. In that desire for equality & democracy it blows up sources of "absolute" truth and valorizes individual truth. That last bit is where the MGM emerges as unhealthy (from a social order pov) narcissism. An old aphorism about the Internet is that it treats censorship as damage and routes around it. Postmodern worldview similarly treats AUTHORITY as damage and tries to disassemble it