I wrote:
So I agree, in practice, to stop this sort of random growth of
nonsense, it is necessary to have a strong argument against a policy from
the perspective of the health of the organization (no agendas or
idealistic
motives allowed!) as well a specific and relevant set of targets for
blame,
and to pursue it all at once.
On 7/26/13 11:18 AM, glen wrote:
Internally negotiated truth is not a bug. It's a feature. The trick
is that organizational truth is negotiated slower than individual
truth. And societal truth is even more inertial.
A set of people ought to be able to falsify a proposition faster than
one person, who may be prone to deluding themselves, among other
things. This is the function of peer review, and arguing on mailing
lists. Identification of truth is something that should move slowly.
I think `negotiated truth' occurs largely because people in
organizations have different amounts of power, and the powerful ones may
insist on something false or sub-optimal. The weak, junior, and the
followers are just fearful of getting swatted.
Marcus
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