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%FEEDBACK CONTROL IDEALS-2 850511
Institutions, traditions, and cultures entail
feedback control ideals which operate in invisible ways
which promote the growth of some features and the decay of
other features. The rate of growth or decay may be such
that at any one moment in history the participants
perceive the growth or decay as unquestionably desirable.
The growth or decay is judged in terms of the set of
ideals and values which have operated to create the
feedback loops which are controlling the growth or decay.
Yet, no one may be aware of the way in which the
thoughtless process is bound to go to undesirable extremes
which may not be recognized until an extreme has been
reached and passed. In the absence of thoughtful balance
ideals and values are bound to operate through thoughtless
feedback loops to produce oscillations between extreme
which extremists regard as desirable or devilish depending
upon where they stand. Extremists work to promote the
opposite extreme, rather than work to promote feedback
loops designed to promote balance and long-term stability.
Feedback loops should be designed to promote balance
and stability. Stability at an extreme is not balance.
Stability need not be static, it can be dynamic.
Stability does not mean the absence of change. Feedback
loops are used in airplanes to achieve stable flight in a
balanced way. Feedback loops can be designed to achieve
social and personal growth with balance and integrity.
Often feedback is negative in nature. The filtering
of some aspect of a signal and preventing it from
participating in the feedback loop may be the most
important aspect of what is happening. Dictators who deny
communication rights know this well and inhibit the free
flow of ideas, facts, opinions, etc. In the same way
informal collusions, taboos, traditions, and institutions
may inhibit desirable feedback and so undermine the
integrity of a community as to cause its disintegration.
Thus we need to become aware of inhibitory feedback
effects which cause the decay of the basis of unity in a
community.
It is our ideals which control our feedback loops.
If they operate thoughtlessly and invisibly we are likely
to experience great tragedies.
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