New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 137
Virtually every institution in the world runs not only on official knowledge but also on something called “institutional knowledge,” which is passed from older “generations” in the institution to younger ones. What happens when there’s an interruption in the accumulation and transmission of institutional knowledge, though? Eventually, the answer is institutional collapse, but it usually takes us by surprise because our institutions keep running just fine until it’s all of a sudden too late. In this eye-opening episode of New Discourses Bullets, host James Lindsay introduces you to this important topic. Join him and start thinking about how we can deal with it before the catastrophe arrives.
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You’re right about institutional knowledge. US industry has already lost a much of it due to offshoring. But degrowth is not about something that is optional. It’s about recognizing that continued growth based on cheap fossil fuels is now reaching its limits. So degrowth is about scaling down carefully, without collapse where institutional knowledge and other expertise is lost.