THE WELCH COMPANY
440 Davis Court #1602
San Francisco, CA 94111-2496
415 781 5700
rod@welchco.com


S U M M A R Y


DIARY: January 27, 2000 11:05 AM Thursday; Rod Welch

DKR development strategy and objectives for problem solving.

1...Summary/Objective
2...Groupware and Notebook Computer Provide Starting Point
......NetSystem
......Electronic Notebook
3...Competition Limits Value of DKR to Support Collaboration
4...Diminishing Biodiversity and Free Markets
5...Free Markes Fail to Empower Poor and Inept; Community Needs Humanity
....Communities Form Organically from Common Values and Objectives
....Sunshine Profits Invest to Recycle Failure for Vital Community
6...Community Requires Community Investment
....Community Requires Community Investment, Balancing Binary Forces
7...Binary Forces Balance Expression of Self-interest Based on Context


..............
Click here to comment!

CONTACTS 

SUBJECTS
Colloquium Unfinished Revolution                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
Net System, 000127                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
Electronic Notebook                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
Core of Knowledge Management                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
Groupware, Enterprise Management                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
Virtual Office Uses Internet                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
Electronic Conferencing                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
1309 -                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
1309 -    ..
1310 - Summary/Objective                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
1311 -                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
131101 - Follow up ref SDS 40 0001.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
131102 -                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
131103 - John Deneen submitted information on two existing technologies for                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
131104 - consideration in formulating core DKR capabilities.  Paul Fernhout                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
131105 - reviewed arguements on balancing free markets and managed economy                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
131106 - policy choices in addressing resource depletion and humanity issues.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
131108 -  ..
1312 -                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
1313 -                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
1314 - Progress                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
131501 -  ..
131502 - Groupware and Notebook Computer Provide Starting Point                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
131503 - 
131504 - Follow up ref SDS 40 8960.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
131505 -                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
131506 - Received ref DRT 1 0001 from John Deneen, VP SATCOM Consultants, Inc.,                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      
131507 - responding to Eric Armstrong's letter on 000124, ref DRP 2 0001, which                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      
131508 - endorsed Jeff Miller's suggestion to discuss system design with                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
131509 - specific examples, ref DRP 1 7708, reported on 000124. ref SDS 38 8960                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
131510 -                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
131511 -        [On 000305 John suggests reviewing Xanadu. ref SDS 42 0866                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
131513 -  ..
131514 - John proposes the DKR provide groupware for "virtual," electronic                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
131515 - conferencing and collaboration using the web.  He explains and                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
131516 - provides a resource for reviewing...                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
131518 -  ..
131519 -                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
131520 -      NetSystem                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
131521 -                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
131522 -      ... an integrated system of World Wide Web (WWW) based                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
131523 -      collaborative "groupware" tools that enable the secure "virtual"                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
131524 -      electronic interaction of teams of professionals. ref DRT 1 5525                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
131525 -                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
131526 -      http://techconf.llnl.gov/Help/Quicknew.html                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
131528 -       ..
131529 -      More info about the University of California Institute on Global                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
131530 -      Conflict and Cooperation to use the Internet for electronic                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
131531 -      conferencing, part of a proposed "virtual diplomacy" initiative                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
131532 -      for dealing with Environmental Threats & National Security can be                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
131533 -      found at...                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
131534 -                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
131535 -      http://cgsr.llnl.gov/cgi-bin/downloader/CGSR_lib/009-0006.htm                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
131536 -                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
131537 -      http://cgsr.llnl.gov/cgi-bin/downloader/CGSR_lib/009-0008.htm                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
131538 -      ..
131539 -      Electronic Notebook Software - is for scientists and
131540 -      engineers to do remote experimentation and collaboration...                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
131541 -                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
131542 -      http://www.epm.ornl.gov/~geist/java/applets/enote/                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
131544 -  ..
131545 - Electronic (video) conferencing, collaboration and "virtual" office                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
131546 - seem to be contemplated as Enterprise Management capabilities of the                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
131547 - Dynamic Knowledge Repository (DKR) based on Doug's 1992 paper on                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
131548 - Gruopware reviewed on 991222. ref SDS 35 5360                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
131550 -  ..
131551 - On 000120 support for collaboration was cited as a key capability for                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
131552 - augmenting. ref SDS 37 1640                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
131554 -  ..
131555 - John further suggests evaluating...                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
131557 -  ..
131558 -                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
131559 -      Electronic Notebook                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         
131560 -                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
131561 -      Software for scientists and engineers to do remote                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
131562 -      experimentation and collaboration. ref DRT 1 2048                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      
131563 -                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
131564 -      http://www.epm.ornl.gov/~geist/java/applets/enote/                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
131565 -                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
131567 -  ..
131568 - John provides a letter he used to obtain the software, ref DRT 1 7280,                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      
131569 - and a response from the government agency sponsoring the Electronic                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
131570 - Notebook, requesting suggestions for improvements. ref DRT 1 1334                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
131572 -  ..
131573 - John does not provide an explanation of his experience using these                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
131574 - tools.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
131575 -         ..
131576 -      þ  Did John obtain the software and try it?
131578 -          ..
131579 -      þ  How effective was it for                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
131580 -                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
131581 -         a.  collaboration?                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
131582 -         b.  electronic conferencing                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
131583 -         c.  remote experimentation                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
131584 -         d.  local exepriementation                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
131585 -                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
131587 -  ..
131588 - John's letter requesting the Electronic Notbebook program discloses                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
131589 - his background as a scientist...                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
131590 -                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
131591 -      ... former LLNL scientist and my consulting affiliation with the                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
131592 -      Archimedes Project at Stanford...                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
131593 -                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
131594 -      http://corporate.stanford.edu/stanford/showset.html                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      
131595 -                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
131596 -                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
131597 -                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
1316 -                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

SUBJECTS
Objectives, Collective IQ                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
Competition, Cooperation, Innate Conflict to Integrated Tools                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
Tragedy of Commons Competition Inhibits Sharing                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
Global Problems Too Vast Lack Focus                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
ABC Improvement Model                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
New Reality Management Imploding                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
Binary Forces, Market Forces                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
Command and Control                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
Malthusian Predictions                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
Club of Rome Predictions                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
Biodiversity Diminishing                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
Sunshine Profits Shield Management from Mistakes                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
World Problems Balance Free Markets Long Term Environmental Cycles of                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
3315 -                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
331601 -  ..
331602 - Competition Limits Value of DKR to Support Collaboration                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         
331603 - 
331604 - Follow up ref SDS 38 4028.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
331605 -                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
331606 - Paul Fernhout responds, ref DRT 2 0001, to Mike Taylor's letter about                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
331607 - the character of problems that need support by a DKR, in relation to                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
331608 - striking the balance between a free market model of economic theory                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
331609 - and command and control of a "managed economy" often associated with a                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
331610 - socialist or communist totalitarian government.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
331612 -  ..
331613 - Paul concurs with Mike's explanation that predictions of economic and                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
331614 - humanitarian strife would ensue with depletion of natural resources,                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
331615 - have failed because free markets move investment and ingenuity toward                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
331616 - development of alternative resources.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
331617 -                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
331618 -     [On 001219 Paul recommends that DKR project address values, and                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
331619 -     feels KM is not necessary to solve unmet needs of world hunger.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
331620 -     ref SDS 44 GN5H                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         
331622 -  ..
331623 - Paul says the Club of Rome report...                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
331624 -                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
331625 -     http://www.clubofrome.org/                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
331626 -                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
331627 - ...and related simulation led to many of these predictions, but has                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
331628 - been discredited.  It did not allow for any technological improvement.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
331629 - ref DRT 2 6156                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
331630 -                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
331631 -     http://www.economist.com/editorial/freeforall/19-12-98/1997.html                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          
331633 -  ..
331634 - Even Malthus, in later editions (1806, rarely cited), recanted the                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
331635 - notion that population always grows faster than food supply.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      
331636 -                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
331637 -     http://www.monthlyreview.org/1298jbf.htm                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
331639 -  ..
331640 - Julian Simon is cited as supporting Mike's advocacy for free market                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
331641 - solutions to allocation of resources. ref DRT 2 4224  Web sites are                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         
331642 - listed for Simon's work, with special attention to...                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
331643 -                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
331644 -     http://www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/Colleges/BMGT/.Faculty/JSimon/Ultimate_Resource/                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          
331646 -  ..
331647 - Sources for views opposing Simon, and presumably free markets,                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
331648 - ref DRT 2 7310, are given as...                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
331649 -                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
331650 -     http://www.jps.net/zpg/                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
331651 -                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
331652 -                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
331654 -  ..
331655 - Diminishing Biodiversity and Free Markets                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
331656 - 
331657 - Paul argues that Simon's free market theory does not adequately                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
331658 - address the problem of diminishing biodiversity as an irreplaceable                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
331659 - resource. ref DRT 2 7221                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
331661 -  ..
331662 - He maintains that common action is therefore needed to guide market                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
331663 - forces toward action that avoids this common problem.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
331664 -                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
331665 -      [On 000604 Paul makes same argument. ref SDS 43 1075                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
331666 -                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
331668 -  ..
331669 - Free Markes Fail to Empower Poor and Inept; Community Needs Humanity                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
331670 - 
331671 - Paul notes that people without money, unskilled, starving in poverty,                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
331672 - unable to work cannot participate in the market. Other market players                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
331673 - may take it upon themselves to solve this problem through charity...                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
331674 -                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
331675 -     http://www.hungersite.com/                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
331676 -                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
331677 - ...or variants of charity (taxation and redistribution via welfare or                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
331678 - education or jobs training or economic development), but it is not a                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
331679 - *direct* working of the market. ref DRT 2 1786                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
331680 -                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
331682 -  ..
331683 - Paul argues...                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
331684 -                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
331685 -    þ  charity is needed for those unable to participate in the market,                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
331686 -                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
331687 -    þ  laws must govern activities with external costs,                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
331688 -                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
331689 -    þ  regulations must prevent chaos.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
331691 -  ..
331692 - He says the only question is what are our non-economic goals, and how                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
331693 - can we structure our economics best to achieve them? ref DRT 2 0868                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         
331694 -                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
331695 -      [On 000128 Clark supports this view. ref SDS 41 4028]                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
331696 -                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
331698 -     ..
331699 -    Communities Form Organically from Common Values and Objectives                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
331700 -    Sunshine Profits Invest to Recycle Failure for Vital Community                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
331701 -    
331702 -    Paul makes a strong point about the need for a community to                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
331703 -    establish values.  Culture and tradition mold civilization, and                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
331704 -    identify people within a hierarchy of organizations, i.e., a                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
331705 -    nation, state, city, company and team, based on common values                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
331706 -    and/or objectives.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
331708 -     ..
331709 -    The US Constitution cites the need to establish justice and secure                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
331710 -    the blessings of freedom, do ordain and establish a statement of                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
331711 -    laws for self-government.  A hallmark of the design is to balance                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
331712 -    competing forces for individual liberty with community                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         
331713 -    responsibility.  To avoid the tyranny of the mob, and the status                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
331714 -    quo, yet to rein in freedom short of license and chaos.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
331716 -     ..
331717 -    Markets require economic vitality, and so must invest to reduce the                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
331718 -    consequences of "failure," as a common necessity to sustain a                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
331719 -    stable community, and further to provide multiple chances for                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
331720 -    latent talent to flourish.  The market does not know where the next                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
331721 -    Rockefeller or Gates might arise, and cannot afford to permit human                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
331722 -    capital to be wasted.  What people commonly call charity, is in                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
331723 -    reality an investment in a diversified portfolio.  Since it is                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
331724 -    necessarily high risk, the investment must be prudent.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         
331725 -                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
331726 -        [On 000128 cite theory of deferred reciprocal treatment that                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
331727 -        explains biological drive for charity. ref SDS 41 1020]                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
331729 -     ..
331730 -    This is the investment theory for sunshine profits.  The source of                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
331731 -    profit is human ingenuity.  It must be continually invested to                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
331732 -    discover and nurture innovation and industry from all quarters.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
331733 -    ..
331734 -    Taxation is one form of investment.
331735 -                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
331737 -  ..
331738 - Community Requires Community Investment                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          
331739 - 
331740 - Paul points out that markets take time to work, so if someone needs                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
331741 - help now, then non-market intervention may be justified, and further                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
331742 - notes that investment for prenatal care, educational daycare, parental                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
331743 - leave, and community services like after-school centers, are needed to                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
331744 - reduce the burden of dollars and human tragedy from failed lives that                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
331745 - lead to imprisonment. ref DRT 2 1798                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
331746 -                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
331748 -     ..
331749 -    Community Requires Community Investment, Balancing Binary Forces                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
331750 -    
331751 -    There is a market for prenatal care, daycare, vacations and so on,                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
331752 -    but not everyone implements them in a consistent manner, because                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
331753 -    they relate to personal preference and values.  Not all children do                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
331754 -    well in these settings.  Children are fairly malable and pretty                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
331755 -    much grow up finding their way and honing their talents in a vast                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
331756 -    market of opportunities presented through school, television,                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
331757 -    friends and relatives.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         
331759 -     ..
331760 -    No matter what level of resources are available, people will have a                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
331761 -    range of outcomes from good to bad.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
331763 -     ..
331764 -    Government mandates on family life inevitably make problems worse,                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
331765 -    as evidenced in Romania, USSR and China.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
331766 -                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
331768 -  ..
331769 - Binary Forces Balance Expression of Self-interest Based on Context                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
331770 - 
331771 - Paul notes that "self-interest" is expressed by individuals in                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
331772 - different ways in different contexts. ref DRT 2 5427                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
331773 -                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
331774 -    One example is the movie Reds where the main character champions                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
331775 -    the ascendency of communism in Russia that subordinates individual                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
331776 -    expression to improve the collective, but then objects that his                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
331777 -    self-expression through writing in order to achieve that end,                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
331778 -    should not be subject to the same test of common good.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         
331780 -     ..
331781 -    Generally, people making the rules support global adherence to one                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
331782 -    approach, while those who want to be making the rules champion                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
331783 -    diversity, until the acquire the reins of power, then they suddenly                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
331784 -    recognized the benefits of focusing attention on their ideas, and                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
331785 -    see less merit in wasting time on the ideas of others.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         
331787 -  ..
331788 - This supports the need to balance binary forces of nature cited on                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
331789 - 000125. ref SDS 40 3089  The balance will never be struck, we can only                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      
331790 - hope to moderate swings of the pendulum to avoid our "ant nest" from                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
331791 - breaking off the twig and falling into the river, cited by Paul,                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
331792 - before we can transplant to another stronger twig, or reinforce the                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
331793 - twig with a steel girder. ref DRT 2 7462  The U.S.  Constitution                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
331794 - strives to minimize these risks through a balance of forces, national                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
331795 - and states rights, legislative and executive functions, elections for                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
331796 - some and appointment for life of judges.  This allows a wide range of                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
331797 - ideas to be tried with minimal risk to the entire "nest."                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         
331798 -                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
331799 -                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
331800 -                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
331801 -                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
331802 -                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
331803 -                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
331804 -                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
331805 -