 |
 |
Colonialism can be perhaps most insightfully be regarded simply as a tool of elites. I suggest any attempts to 'decolonise' anything will be likely ineffective if it does not include an understanding of the role of elites and the ways they use colonisation, decolonisation and similar structures. The 2 feed-back loop law I identified, and described in other posts, provides an insight into how colonisation and similar structures are used by elites (and corrupt politicians and criminals). One simplified understanding of the 2 feedback loop law is that any process with two or more feedback loops cannot be understood 'in mind'. Instead the mind focuses on only part of the overall process whilst believing that it is understanding the whole process. A consequence is the active processes outside the most visible feedback loop become 'invisible' to a people's awareness and thinking. The way this is used in power processes is where an elite group identifies a strategy to be implemented and then creates to implement it a very visible process with two or more feedback loops. The result is the primary strategy becomes hidden. This can be seen, for example, in the money flow processes in the Brazilian Petrobras/ Development Bank corruption scandal. I believe (on good information) that the 2 feedback loop model and related variety analysis models were used to analyse this situation. The last 2 months, I've been reading George Soros, particularly his analyses of processes that involve parallel manipulation to change the fundamental factors in those processes. An example is the housing lending markets. Typically such processes involve more than 2 feedback loops so much of the primary process and strategies remains out of mental view. By mapping out the ways the feedback loops affect fundamentals, this enable those in the know to make the money on the way up and on the way down in the typical bubble that results. Colonisation is similar. The two biggest opportunities for financial elites are to get access to national resources, particularly the tax receipts; and to make an economy do an apparently unpredictable economic bump, with the causal factors hidden by the two feedback loops. Again the possibilities with the latter are taking profit on the way up and on the way down. Brexit might be considered an example of this. The above provides one understanding of why situations remain similar for much of the populace in many countries post-colonisation - regardless of different governance structures that follow colonisation. Regards, Terence --- Dr Terence Love PhD(UWA), BA(Hons) Engin. PGCEd, FDRS, PMACM, MISI Love Services Pty Ltd PO Box 226, Quinns Rocks Western Australia 6030 Tel: +61 (0)4 3497 5848 <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask] www.loveservices.com.au <http://www.loveservices.com.au> -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- PhD-Design mailing list <[log in to unmask]> Discussion of PhD studies and related research in Design Subscribe or Unsubscribe at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/phd-design -----------------------------------------------------------------