[goofingaround]

>... we’re all seeing is that a lot of work that has been done to enable international cooperation ... pulled apart. We’re seeing the progress we thought had been made in this country in race relations being reversed. We’re seeing the partial breakup ... of a united Europe...

> One of the problems when you bring technology into a new area is that it forces you to oversimplify.

It is fortunate that we have thinkers such as this to simplify the world for us.

Should we pine for the united Europe of Rome? Of the Reich?

Was it evil to tear down those cooperative societies?

[analog31]

REG: All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?

XERXES: Brought peace.

REG: Oh. Peace? Shut up!

-- Life of Brian

[sievebrain]

Yeah, I noticed that. Then she went on to talk about how she was asked to write about systems thinking even though she knows nothing about it, and wrote a preface based on a few minutes googling.

I admit I stopped reading at that point. Bog standard Marxist thought in academic circles? Starting an article supposed to be about systems thinking with a noisy announcement of tribal loyalty? Yawn.

[icebraining]

Well, we give the Charlemagne Prize, despite his unification efforts not being exactly democratic.

That said, I think the author could argue that by mentioning "progress in race relations" they are disqualifying the Third Reich.