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As long as new innovations are focused on method and technique rather than on the elements of emotional process, all changes are doomed to recycle.
A Failure of Nerve
Edwin H. Friedman
In a healthy world, every increase in authority, every move upward, would be matched by an increase in risk, a move to the right. This is the pattern that would keep us dependent on God and one another, empowering others rather than hoarding our power, and discovering new dimensions of flourishing.
Strong and Weak
Andy Crouch
Evolutionary forces may generate crystals, the stripes on a zebra, vortices, fractals, and other repetitive patterns that can be produced by a simple algorithm (in the case of the zebra stripes, a tiny number of nucleotides). But these phenomena lack complexity measured by informational entropy. As the Princeton economist Albert Hirshman has written, “creativity always comes as a surprise to us.”14 It is a high-entropy event. Innovations are not an expression of equilibrium and order, like crystals or snowflakes, but disruptions of it.
Knowledge and Power
George Gilder
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