Any arrangement of stabilized commitments operating in an environment that changes faster than the commitments do will eventually face a structural problem: how to acknowledge that operational practice has drifted from the commitments without dissolving the authority that grounds the commitments. This problem appears wherever the conditions hold, which is more places than is usually … Continue reading Commitment Systems and the Architecture of Drift
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Cultural Containers: A Sketch
Cultural systems — religions, constitutions, philosophical traditions, ideological movements, scientific paradigms, informal cultural artifacts — share a structural property worth naming directly. Each maintains a relationship between a nominal core and an evolving operational practice. The relationship's stability depends not on preventing change, which is impossible, but on whether the system's authority structure can acknowledge … Continue reading Cultural Containers: A Sketch
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