Some Centralization of Thoughts on the Shifting Baseline Syndrome. "Suffering and Withdrawal Comes Those Who Have Experienced Loss, not from Those Who Never Experienced."
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Victoria "Stokastika"
Nov 28, 2008, 3:15:43 PM11/28/08
to Question Reality
Shifting Baseline Syndrome is a Mass-scale, Cross-generational
Psychological Phenomenon that can be observed in daily life as well is
in the way how scientists and managers collect, organize, and
interpret their data.
Shifting Baselines in space and time. Psychological detachment in
space and time.
"Imagine My Kids Will Never Experience the Most Splendid Venture of
Consuming a Banana!"
Shifting Baseline Syndrome. Transport of Emotional Meaning to
Organisms Through Time. e.g. Endangered Species Goes Extinct? The
likelihood that ANY PARTICULAR KID kid will know, remember, and care,
largely depends on the degree of obsession of the parents--not the
remnant human representations of the organism (e.g. film, photographs,
stories). The most crucial missing element is the direct experience.
The same problem is evident in the re-occurrence of wars, like the
most recent Recreational War of Iraq.
You may transmit stories through time, but if you do not directly
experience the event, then there is no true understanding of the
phenomenon.
One of my teachers, Miriam, directed me to an economist who pointed
out that there seems to be a 30-year cycle of gradual to great change
in societies and economic systems (and ecosystems), which represents a
generic overturn from one generation to the next. I JUST NEED TO FIND
THE REFERENCE! 120 people--create new division in a company. FIND THAT
REFERENCE. Some corporations operating like blind dictatorships.
Society has become a military system, people know what they know, do
what they do, they don't ask questions otherwise, as long as they have
what they need (like pharmaceutical companies).
Psychological Phenomenon that can be observed in daily life as well is
in the way how scientists and managers collect, organize, and
interpret their data.
Shifting Baselines in space and time. Psychological detachment in
space and time.
"Imagine My Kids Will Never Experience the Most Splendid Venture of
Consuming a Banana!"
Shifting Baseline Syndrome. Transport of Emotional Meaning to
Organisms Through Time. e.g. Endangered Species Goes Extinct? The
likelihood that ANY PARTICULAR KID kid will know, remember, and care,
largely depends on the degree of obsession of the parents--not the
remnant human representations of the organism (e.g. film, photographs,
stories). The most crucial missing element is the direct experience.
The same problem is evident in the re-occurrence of wars, like the
most recent Recreational War of Iraq.
You may transmit stories through time, but if you do not directly
experience the event, then there is no true understanding of the
phenomenon.
One of my teachers, Miriam, directed me to an economist who pointed
out that there seems to be a 30-year cycle of gradual to great change
in societies and economic systems (and ecosystems), which represents a
generic overturn from one generation to the next. I JUST NEED TO FIND
THE REFERENCE! 120 people--create new division in a company. FIND THAT
REFERENCE. Some corporations operating like blind dictatorships.
Society has become a military system, people know what they know, do
what they do, they don't ask questions otherwise, as long as they have
what they need (like pharmaceutical companies).
Victoria "Stokastika"
Nov 28, 2008, 3:27:16 PM11/28/08
to Question Reality
The Basic Principle of Mitigation:
Bulldoze a Marsh, save a pond.
The Environmental Impact Report (EIR) is just an additional time-lag
loophole to development (as Tariel had verified all my father's and my
pre-conceptions about environmental law).
Mitigation becomes a feasible practice given enough time lag and
enough turnover of communities. This is prominent in the Santa Barbara
Region. In a hypothetical study, In Year 1, you have a developer
proposing to build 150 homes at Ellwood, and the Environmentally
Conscious Community goes in an uproar. It ends up being a drawn-out
battle between the Developers, the County Government, and the local
Non-profit Groups and Citizens. Some sort of "compromise" is reached,
such that the developer only builds 100 homes instead of 150 and then
they have to "restore" a small fragment of the land. Then everyone is
happy. Kind of seems like that is what happened in the building of
Manzanita Village. So much for the university practicing what they
preach. Whatever. As of what limited knowledge I have, the Office of
Budget and Planning of UCSB is like its own malignant tumor to the
UCSB social organism. Sheesh.
But given enough lag time, say for example, 5-10 years later, there is
enough turnover in the community of humans (though there are quite a
few long-term locals in Santa Barbara) such that (1) the new residents
never experienced a developer-community battle and (2) the long-term
community residents have had their emotions cooled and waned long
enough, and enough buried memories that a new developer (or the same
one) comes along to propose a new development around the vicinity of
Ellwood. And so the cycle continues.
So, in the end, "mitigation" is a slower, more humanly complex
interaction than Unrestrained Development. Say for example the
Development Metabolic Rate of Coastal Baja California is 12 acres per
month and perhaps 1 acre per month in Santa Barbara. Just differential
rates of bulldozing and landscape metamorphosing to The End of Nature.
Blah.
Becca and I had this Principle of Mitigation discussion as we walked
around Isla Vista and Manzanita Village on a misty Sunday evening, a
couple of days after she turned in her National Science Foundation
Graduate Research Fellowship proposal.
Bulldoze a Marsh, save a pond.
The Environmental Impact Report (EIR) is just an additional time-lag
loophole to development (as Tariel had verified all my father's and my
pre-conceptions about environmental law).
Mitigation becomes a feasible practice given enough time lag and
enough turnover of communities. This is prominent in the Santa Barbara
Region. In a hypothetical study, In Year 1, you have a developer
proposing to build 150 homes at Ellwood, and the Environmentally
Conscious Community goes in an uproar. It ends up being a drawn-out
battle between the Developers, the County Government, and the local
Non-profit Groups and Citizens. Some sort of "compromise" is reached,
such that the developer only builds 100 homes instead of 150 and then
they have to "restore" a small fragment of the land. Then everyone is
happy. Kind of seems like that is what happened in the building of
Manzanita Village. So much for the university practicing what they
preach. Whatever. As of what limited knowledge I have, the Office of
Budget and Planning of UCSB is like its own malignant tumor to the
UCSB social organism. Sheesh.
But given enough lag time, say for example, 5-10 years later, there is
enough turnover in the community of humans (though there are quite a
few long-term locals in Santa Barbara) such that (1) the new residents
never experienced a developer-community battle and (2) the long-term
community residents have had their emotions cooled and waned long
enough, and enough buried memories that a new developer (or the same
one) comes along to propose a new development around the vicinity of
Ellwood. And so the cycle continues.
So, in the end, "mitigation" is a slower, more humanly complex
interaction than Unrestrained Development. Say for example the
Development Metabolic Rate of Coastal Baja California is 12 acres per
month and perhaps 1 acre per month in Santa Barbara. Just differential
rates of bulldozing and landscape metamorphosing to The End of Nature.
Blah.
Becca and I had this Principle of Mitigation discussion as we walked
around Isla Vista and Manzanita Village on a misty Sunday evening, a
couple of days after she turned in her National Science Foundation
Graduate Research Fellowship proposal.
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