CHAPTER 7

Unsubscribing from Mutuality and Abstraction

The knowledge of the circumstances of which we must make use never exists in concentrated or integrated form, but solely as the dispersed bits of incomplete and frequently contradictory knowledge which all the separate individuals possess.1

—F.A. Hayek

If you live like no one else, later you can live like no one else.

—Dave Ramsey

A Universal Failure Mode

Modern enterprise is extended order, complex. Every failure to sustain has its own reasons. Still, in every case one common disconnect is always implicated: Sustainment un-does when members unsubscribe from the abstract rule-set, which had been guiding how we agree to connect. To abandon-and-revert is to un-share from the mutuality in which ...

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