Oct 03, 2008 15:39
* Grab the nearest book.
* Open the book to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post the text of the next two to five sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
* Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.
...So we have two crises on our hands: a crisis of complexity, produced by the stresses from the demographic and new world economy lines, and a nasty twin, a crisis of governance arising from the rigidity of human institutions and from the sheer difficulty of getting the human institutions line to move up.
This is not the first time these twin crises have arisen... (High Noon, by J.F. Rischard).