I can't believe that. The act of flattening is a natural part of the dynamics. What you (and Marcus) are equating is the act of flattening with a system-wide tendency to flatten *everything*. By saying the flattening is good, I'm not saying everything should always be flattened. That's a false equivalence that I doubt Arendt would support.
And this also applies to endogenous objective functions. Facile flattening encourages new peaks ... encourages a bumpy, complex landscape. Totalitarianism and authoritarianism are exogenous functions. On 3/5/21 10:01 AM, jon zingale wrote: > Hannah Arendt (wink to Merle) argues that the flattening (both externally and > internally) is perhaps the salient feature of totalitarianism. I find myself > often looking for the original reference and unfortunately not finding it. -- ↙↙↙ uǝlƃ - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/
