Echo Chambers and Thinking About Risk
One of many best challenges for the any business is introspection, gazing into its personal stomach button hoping to seek out one thing new. We may name this ‘fortress mentality’, the constructing of boundaries too tough to interrupt down.
Plainly anytime the fortress needs to know one thing it doesn’t search experience exterior of itself (throughout the disciplines) however moderately seeks a supply that’s secure for the fortress. When the fortress seeks to elucidate one thing exterior of itself it at all times goes to a supply that accepts the validity of its personal assumptions and no others. The temptation to maneuver exterior of established boundaries or questioning conventional boundaries is politicized as a risk to the fortress.
The problem for any fortress looking for a future is Transdisciplinarity.
Transdisciplinarity represents a disposition that accepts sources and information exterior of 1’s personal self-discipline. I’ve written about Transdisciplinarity earlier than:
The notion of ‘Transdisciplinarity’ was first coined by Nicolescu and shouldn’t be confused with multi-disciplinarity.
- Nicolescu, B.,2002. Manifesto of Transdisciplinarity. Albany: SUNY Press.
- Nicolescu, B. (ed.), 2008. Transdisciplinarity. Concept and Observe. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.
Another good sources on Transdisciplinarity embody:
- Brown, V., Harris, J., and Waltner-Toews, D., (2019) Impartial Thinking in an Unsure World, A Thoughts of One’s Personal. Earthscan. London.
- Brown, V., and Harris, J., (2014) The Human Capability for Transformational Change, harnessing the collective thoughts. Earthscan. London.
- Nardi, B., and O’Day, V., (1999) Data Ecologies. MIT Press, London.
- Sommerville, M., and Rapport, D., (eds.) (2000) Transdisciplinarity: reCreating Built-in Information. EOSS, Oxford.
The thought of Transdisciplinarity emerged out of the problem of ‘wicked problems’. Depraved issues are paradoxical issues that don’t have any answer, are intractable and the extra one tries to resolve them from mono or multi-disciplines, the extra the issue is amplified. You’ll be able to learn extra about depraved issues right here:
Depraved issues are exacerbated by social complexity and can’t be tackled by mono-disciplinary approaches or makes an attempt at ‘fixing’. Depraved issues are most frequently exacerbated by simplistic approaches to information. Depraved issues are greatest tackled by Transdisciplinarity, motion throughout all disciplines in a holistic built-in technique, even strategies you don’t perceive. Such motion calls for belief and religion.
Transdisciplinarity is about holism, looking for information past disciplines. Transdisciplinarity seeks an integration in figuring out the place all disciplines are equally accepted, validated and listened to, together with disciplines one would possibly reject comparable to: metaphysics, theology, faith, semiotics, poetics and so forth. Hierarchies in disciplines and theories of figuring out are antithetical to tackling depraved issues.
There’s nothing much less educative than fortress pondering, creating an echo chamber to flow into and affirm accepted political discourse.
Risk and security are a depraved downside. Risk and security are intractable, unsolvable and paradoxical. There’s nothing much less enlivening, envisioning, educative or invigorating than turning security into an echo chamber.
Sadly, the security business is framed by zero ideology, zero mysticism (https://safetyrisk.net/the-spirit-of-zero/ ) and zero globalism (https://visionzero.global/videos ) thus creating an enormous temptation to construct a fortress and assume inside the circulation of an echo chamber. Transdisciplinarity calls for tolerance, Zero calls for intolerance.
Haidt and Lukianoff (2019) known as the method of being closed and insular as ‘coddling’, stating that such a mindset results in ‘safetyism’. Amalberti known as it ‘hyper-safety’, the looking for of impossibility towards the realities of fallibility. Taleb (Antifragility) demonstrates that looking for hyper-safety results in fragility. Heightened fragility is the result of constructing a fortress or echo chamber. Safetyism results in larger fragility and elevated danger.
To develop resilience in tackling danger one wants to withstand the echo chamber and keep essential questions that don’t permit a mono-disciplinary worldview to turn out to be a politicized, insular fortress. This implies stepping exterior of the safety of 1’s comfy self-discipline and looking for studying past the disciplinary fortress. I discover it absurd that Security thinks it may possibly enter into disciplines it is aware of nothing about and feed its ignorance to the security lots that need an echo chamber. It appears the very best studying about individuals, danger, studying, determination making and serving to come from security engineers!
As a lot as one would possibly like security podcasts, security Linkedin, security books, security conferences and security views one ought to equally step exterior of such consolation and embrace ‘differance’ (Deleuze, Derrida) present in Transdisciplinary sources that aren’t ‘safe’.
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