innovation as violence

The evolutionary perspective. He based his theory on the assumption of usual macroeconomic equilibrium, which is something like "the normal mode of economic affairs". This equilibrium is being perpetually destroyed by entreprenuers who try to introduce innovations. A successful introduction of an innovation disturbs the normal flow of economic life, because it forces some of the already existing technologies and means of production to lose their positions within the economy.

-- A summary of Joseph Schumpeter's work in Evolutionary Economics at Wikipedia.


Innovation is a form of violence. Monoculturalism is the enemy of innovation - its intellectual ghettoism. Monoculturalism only produces efficiency by suffocating alternatives; innovation produces efficiency by being better. Create an environment in which good ideas travel. Engineer self-evolving processes and theories.

III.

My newphew is learning to walk. He takes a few steps, stumbles, and then falls. Yet, if you take his hand, he will walk and walk and walk - leading you along a journey propelled by his wonder. In a way, I think we never stop learning to walk. We merely become more afraid of asking for another's hand.

Ti(..........)me

VII.

self censorship is the most crippling of all intellectual vices.

VI.

don't write what you know; write what you want to know.

V.

...blah blah ramble rant ramble blah blah...

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ten points in time.

VIII.

Needing some groceries - bread, milk, juice - on a Saturday evening at 7.32pm. Deciding to walk to the local IGA in Newtown because its cheaper on average by $2 than the local Erskineville grocery. Returning at 8.54pm, groceries in one bag and in another bag, two new t-shirts and a new pair of pants. Contemplating how Crazy Horse is like clothescrack - permanent buy2get3rdFree sale, constantly rotating stock, and largely sympathetic cuts. Contemplating also how twentyfirstcentury it is for a heterosexual, non-metrosexual male to both enjoy and be good at shopping for clothes. Once we hunted buffalo, now we hunt bargains.