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*Convergence on the same place everyone is converging isn’t good business, but a recipe for ''bankruptcy''. It is a race to the bottom. As with [[evolution]], the secret is to realise the process is a continuous drift ''from'' the unsatisfactory status quo to something else that doesn’t have that drawback, as opposed to a process converging on a consensus. The ecosystem is ''not'' seeking an equilibrium. It is perpetually seeking to ''escape'' it. | *Convergence on the same place everyone is converging isn’t good business, but a recipe for ''bankruptcy''. It is a race to the bottom. As with [[evolution]], the secret is to realise the process is a continuous drift ''from'' the unsatisfactory status quo to something else that doesn’t have that drawback, as opposed to a process converging on a consensus. The ecosystem is ''not'' seeking an equilibrium. It is perpetually seeking to ''escape'' it. | ||
=== | ===Averagarianism=== | ||
Not to be confused with tepid, cosy, easy ''mediocrity'', which everyone loves. | Not to be confused with tepid, cosy, easy ''mediocrity'', which everyone loves. | ||
Averagarianismthat forces actually different people into generic categories. It imputes commonalities that don’t really exist. Sanding off contours and wonky borders to make everything regular simply because that suits the hyper-scaled prerogatives of commerce. The expression “community” —you know, the “Python coding community,” the “intelligence community” or the “political extremist community” is an averagarianist tell. | |||
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*{{br|The End of Average: How to Succeed in a World That Values Sameness}} | *{{br|The End of Average: How to Succeed in a World That Values Sameness}} | ||