We need a new model for our lives. With the old ones overturned, so many people have been cast adrift in a complex world. How can you make sense of the world around you, if you're not aware of your place in it?
Human-Oriented Dynamics To model our larger behavior as organizations, we need some irrationally motivated, inconsistent system, that in it's lack of completeness manages to predictably move around the same territory that we do. A system completely opposite in nature to a mathematically formal system, yet one sufficiently expressive enough to be able to draw conclusions from its changes in different states. People are neither logical nor rational, and when they operate in larger and larger groups, these inconsistencies manifest into larger patterns within the over-all interactions. The rules make no sense, yet they shouldn't make sense. These are a few basic principles (of an infinite number of them): The Opposition Principle: For anything that someone can do, someone else will attempt to do the opposite. The Path Principle: To force something along a prescribed path, there must be at least two balancing forces at work. The Ease Principle: People will always take the easiest...
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