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Breakdown to Lockdown | Patreon — John Robb

By Thomas A. Smith

The strategist John Boyd saw warfare as a contest between minds.

  • General vs. General
  • Army vs. Army
  • Nation vs. Nation

He reasoned, correctly, that the side that is the most likely to win would be the side with the most effective decision-making system.

Damage, Disruption, and Crisis

His focus on decision-making systems is a helpful framework for making sense of our current decline. Using this lens, we can boil down our current situation to the following dynamic:

  • The complexity of globalization and networking has severely damaged our societal decision-making systems.
  • Newly emergent societal decision-making systems are actively disrupting, degrading, and delegitimizing our legacy system.
  • Our legacy decision-making system has overreacted to this damage and subsequent network attacks by turning each new challenge into a crisis (the Permacrisis).

With this framework in place, let s dig in.

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