[ExI] jarring change

[William Flynn Wallace]

>From here it looks like the Southern Baptist Church would take the honors:
dogma is set in stone; lots of members.  Take away "in Adam's fall we
sinned all" and the whole thing comes down flat.

As for colleges I'd say it depends on what department you are talking
about.  Art, for instance.  Even thinking about art is art, so they are
wide open.  Music accepts total silence as music (Cage).  Sciences are
flexible if they are following the data well.  Psy. too.  Sociology is
hopeless 10 until they give way on genetics (small numbers though, since
some colleges are eliminating the department).  Education changes their
dogma constantly, always for the wrong reasons, but at least you can say
they are flexible.  English I have not kept up with, though they too are
apt to embrace new and wild and wooly theories, only to be dumped after a
few thousands get tenure for papers written on the new theory.  Part of the
English dept. is in favor of words meaning whatever people want them to
mean, and the others what they used to mean.  History I have no idea.

So you see, I have little experience outside the ivory tower.  I am anxious
to see what people think about economics.   bill w

On Sun, Sep 13, 2020 at 12:20 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> What is the most change-averse institutions in modern society?  John Burch
> Society?  OK sure but mainstream.  Presbyterian church?  Hmmm… warmer but
> still not really mainstream and you might be surprised on their attitude
> toward change.
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> Imagine setting up a scale from 1 to 10, with 10 being most change-averse
> and then multiplying by the order of magnitude of people who are in some
> way involved in that.  So… Burch Society is about a 3: a few thousand
> people take that seriously, and Presbyterian, a 5?  OK then.
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> Imagine your change-averse times numbers of people involved in some way,
> and think of who ranks up near the top of that scale.
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> To simplify matters, you can work with just your own country or subset of
> humanity where you know the rules.  I will focus on USA, having no
> expertise outside (haven’t been there or done that (hope to someday (but
> won’t get on a plane or ship (unless they carry me aboard in a wooden
> box.))))
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> OK, see the game?  Number of people (OOM) times change aversity.
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> My highest ranking institution is…
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> Public education in general, the university system in particular.  The
> number of people involved in that is in about the 8 range, with a score I
> estimated for aversion to change around at least 8 or 9, so we are way up
> in the 60 to 70 zone with the product.
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> Commentary to follow, but I want to read what you have to say first.
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> spike
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