Society as a Cybernetic Machine
Society as a Cybernetic Machine

Summary/Abstract: To enact policies that can improve the life of a community – or hurt it – one has to understand the images or models of the world that are underlying the life of the particular community. Every policy decision is, in a sense, a decision that is rooted in the way a given society or group perceives itself and the world. Only by understanding those and the history behind them, can a force provoke meaningful changes in that group. Man is a symbolic and imaging animal and the present-day orders of things and the conception that society entertains about itself are grounded in the idea that man is a technical being. An imaginary of power and efficiency is now dictating the direction man and society must take. In such a predicament, it becomes more and more clear that the act of managing human existence is no longer confined to the realm of politics, that in a sense politics tends to become abolished and, by the same token, man itself.

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