squareONE explorations » planning http://squareone-learning.com/blog resources, discoveries, insights, perplexities Sat, 04 Sep 2010 20:04:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 TO SET IN STONE http://squareone-learning.com/blog/2009/03/to-set-in-stone/ http://squareone-learning.com/blog/2009/03/to-set-in-stone/#comments Fri, 13 Mar 2009 01:47:41 +0000 hoon http://squareone-learning.com/blog/?p=580 Continue reading →]]> Carried over from the Hoon Loops.

Planning concerns man’s efforts to make the future in his own image. If he loses control of his own destiny, he fears being cast into the abyss. Alone and afraid, man is at the mercy of strange and unpredictable forces, so he takes whatever comfort he can by challenging the fates. He shouts his plans into the storms of life. Even if all he hears is his own voice, he is no longer alone. To abandon his faith in planning would unleash the terror locked in him.

A. Wildavsky
If Planning Is Everything, Maybe It¹s Nothing
Policy Science No. 4, 1973

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