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Review of Seeing Like a State

  • the bureaucratic planner
    with a map does not know best, and can not move
    humans and their lives around the territory as if on a chessboard
    to create utopia; that the local, practical knowledge possessed
    by the person-on-the-spot is important; that the locus
    of decision-making must remain with those who have the
    craft to understand the situation; that any system that functions
    at all must create and maintain a space for those on the
    spot to use their local, practical knowledge (even if the hierarchs
    of the system pretend not to notice this flexibility). These
    key arguments are well known: they are the core of the Austrian
    economists' critique of central planning.
02 Jun 09

Socialreporter | Clay Shirky: online crowds aren’t always wise

  • He suggested that Government use of social media should focus more on “small groups of smart people arguing with each other”, than national-scale engagement online.

  • I would not be concentrating right now on the kind of large legitimating moves …. precisely because of the hijack model because in a way, even with new tools … tightly interested groups have a way of throwing issues higher up the charts  … I would be worrying instead about how to get good ideas out of small groups.


    If you want to know where new interesting useful idea are going to come from, don’t look at crowds and don’t look at individuals, look at small groups of smart people arguing with each other. Historically that’s been a big source of change, whether you are talking about the Invisible College or the French Impressionists.

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