Laurie Raymond
Aug 8, 2017 · 1 min read

“The intentional management of cultural evolutionary change…” Well, I fear that another management mandate will suffer from the same flaws of all the others, which were laid out 30 years ago by Alasdair McIntyre in After Virtue: you need managers, and the managed. Neither of these roles is compatible with human psychology or biology or culture, because their opposition is always covert. The unintended consequences of great ideas are their worst products, those most resistant to correction. The awareness we need is indeed well-informed by the fields of evolutionary studies and complexity studies. But they do not need management so much as deliberation, restraint, and a rare and most fruitful humility.