80 Years Later, Are We Still on ‘The Road to Serfdom’? by [[Rainer Zitelman]]

Ref. by PM

Where did the concept of planned obsolescence originate? Was it really IBM as Alex Wright suggests here?

How does planned obsolescence drive capitalism? And as a result of that is there a balance between future innovation and waste? Is there a mechanism within capitalism that can fix this waste (or dramatically mitigate it)?

• for: ecological civilization, degrowth, futures, deep ecology, emptiness, polycrisis, human exceptionalism, planned descent
• source
  • The Great Simplifcation
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GE39xfNRRyw

• Description

  • Nate hosts this discussion on what constitutes an ecological civilization with guests
    • William Rees
    • Rex Weyler
    • Nora Bateson

• Reflections Overall,

  • an insightful discussion on the polycrisis and
  • reflections on what is in store for civilization.
• There is consensus that
  • what we are experiencing has been decades in the making and
  • the solutions-oriented approach to solving problems has only treated the symptoms and indeed has made things worse.
• There is a strong undercurrent of the emptiness in nature

• Rex

  • emphasized the folly of human exceptionalism that has been socially normalized and which
  • continues to create the major separation that fuels the polycrisis.
  • Not recognizing that we are nature, not recognizing our animal nature
  • we look upon nature with an attitude of controlling nature, rather than flowing with her.
  • advocated Taoism as a more consistent way to frame nature rather than the reductionist, control methodology that separates us from nature.

• Nora's perspective is the folly of abstraction that generates fixed preconceptions of aspects of nature that we then reify.

  • The fixed preconceptions are solidified but they are an oversimplified version of reality,
  • and that oversimplification leads to actualizing the cliche"a little knowledge is dangerous" into civilization
  • in other words, the continuous manufacture of progress traps.

• William sees our impending crash as not only inevitable, but natural.

  • In this, he concurs with Rex's perspective.
  • Human beings are simply another species and like them,
    • we are susceptible to population explosions when negative feedbacks are removed,
    • which can lead to nature self-correcting with mass dieoff when resources are overconsumed.

• for: planned descent
  • negative feedbacks are nature's way of handling explosive overshoot
  • if we are a wise species, we would do it ourselves.

• for: planned descent
• William Rees talks about planned descent, planning to start breeding animals of servitude again to replace all the mechanized, fossil fuel systems, plus one or two acres to sustain those draft animals.

• for: contraction, planned descent, overshoot,
• comment
  • Nora basically advocates for spontaneity, winging it, but with tools at your disposal to emerge solutions as appropriate.

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/projects/2022/roe-opinion-annotated/

An interesting example of visual user interface of highlights and marginalia on a news site to help tell and report on a story.

https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2022/a-web-for-all/

Drążkowski, D., Trepanowski, R., & Fointiat, V. (2021). Vaccinating to protect others: The role of self-persuasion and empathy among young adults. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/wh4cs

Thaker, J., & Richardson, L. (2021). COVID-19 Vaccine Segments in Australia: An Audience Segmentation Analysis to Improve Vaccine Uptake [Preprint]. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/y85nm

Maftei, A., & Holman, A. C. (2021). SARS-CoV-2 Threat Perception and Willingness to Vaccinate: The Mediating Role of Conspiracy Beliefs. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 672634. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.672634

Covid-19 pandemic was not planned by Rockefeller Foundation. (16:48:50.595211+00:00). Full Fact. https://fullfact.org/online/covid-19-pandemic-was-not-planned-rockefeller-foundation/

Myers, L. B., & Goodwin, R. (2011). Determinants of adults’ intention to vaccinate against pandemic swine flu. BMC Public Health, 11(1), 15. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-11-15

This is a topic I'm planning to expand on in the future.

Anderson, Ian, and Wendy Wood. ‘Habits and the Electronic Herd: The Psychology behind Social Media’s Successes and Failures’. PsyArXiv, 23 November 2020. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/p2yb7.

If he's like most of us, though, this means it will never happen...

[[throughput]] - [[planned work]] [[unplanned work]] - what things fall under planned and unplanned, and how are they impacting things?

Sætrevik, B. (2020, April 13). Realistic expectations and pro-social behavioural intentions to the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Norwegian population. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/uptyq

Theory of planned behaviour by Ajzen; veridical here means truthful. Three factors:

1. What is my attitude to the behaviour?
2. What do others think or I think others think towards my behaviour (normative belief)?
3. How much control I think or I believe I have towards my behaviour or what factors either make it easy or make it difficult for me to conduct my behaviour?

These will determine my intention to actually act my behaviour, and then intention precedes my actual conduct.