{"id":725,"date":"2005-02-15T21:52:58","date_gmt":"2005-02-15T21:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:09:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:09:00","slug":"scouts_honor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=725","title":{"rendered":"Scout’s Honor"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bruce Sterling has a great post up on his site<\/a> about the array of possible reactions to crisis (hat tip, LA Voice<\/a>):<\/p>\n

Our future world has been divided into axes of threats and responses.<\/p>\n

\nIn the “Business as Usual” world, threats are mild and low, and nobody is feeling very responsive or inventive. So it’s a sleepy, prosperous time. No need to rock the boat.<\/p>\n

\nIn the “Deer in Headlights” world, threats are grave, but society is paralyzed with fear and instinctive conservatism. These people will be mown down in hecatombs. There will be hell to pay.<\/p>\n

\nIn the “Never Again” world, everybody is grimly aware of the threat and everyone is resolved to meet in one single, resolute, uninventive way. This is a world war, basically. It’s like a Bush II that never ends.<\/p>\n

\nIn “Scout World,” the threat is hysterically extreme but people are hysterically inventive! They’re out beating the boundaries of the possible, looking for anything that works or even doesn’t work! <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

While I won’t buy off on his casual dismissal of grim determination, I will suggest that “hysterically inventive” is going to be a key to winning…<\/p>\n

…we’re in a world where today the best metaphors are around emergence. Let’s emerge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bruce Sterling has a great post up on his site about the array of possible reactions to crisis (hat tip, LA Voice): Our future world has been divided into axes of threats and responses. In the “Business as Usual” world, threats are mild and low, and nobody is feeling very responsive or inventive. So it’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}