<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Excellent french article and excellent discussion. We should add that this "stupidity" is very actively promoted by educative systems and media , unfortunately. So, I think it is more necessary than ever to promote emphatic reasoning and discusion . Thanks for reminding me.</span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">De:</span></b> Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante.monson@gmail.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Para:</span></b> econowmix@googlegroups.com; global-survival@googlegroups.com; p2p-foundation <p2p-foundation@lists.ourproject.org> <br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Enviado:</span></b> Viernes 15 de febrero de 2013 16:43<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Asunto:</span></b> [P2P-F] Functional Stupidity<br> </font> </div> <br><div id="yiv1632382245"><div><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 12.800000190734863px; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">+ french article further below</span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 12.800000190734863px; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">note : Orange Meme Information System ? </span></div>
<div><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 12.800000190734863px; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Can be replaced by more optimal Turquoise Meme Information Systems ? ( such as <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://p2pfoundation.net/Anoptism">Anoptic</a> information Systems )</span></div>
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</span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 12.800000190734863px; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">(cf. </span><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-6486.2012.01072.x/abstract" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-size: 12.800000190734863px; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-6486.2012.01072.x/abstract</a><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 12.800000190734863px; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">) :</span><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 12.800000190734863px; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">
<br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 12.800000190734863px; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 12.800000190734863px; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">In this paper we question the one-sided thesis that contemporary organizations rely on the mobilization of cognitive capacities. We suggest that severe restrictions on these capacities in the form of what we call functional stupidity are an equally important if under-recognized part of organizational life. Functional stupidity refers to an absence of reflexivity, a refusal to use intellectual capacities in other than myopic ways, and avoidance of justifications. We argue that functional stupidity is prevalent in contexts dominated by economy in persuasion which emphasizes image and symbolic manipulation. This gives rise to forms of stupidity management that repress or marginalize doubt and block communicative action. In turn, this structures individuals'
internal conversations in ways that emphasize positive and coherent narratives and marginalize more negative or ambiguous ones. This can have productive outcomes such as providing a degree of certainty for individuals and</span><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 12.800000190734863px; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">
<span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 12.800000190734863px; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">organizations. But it can have corrosive consequences such as creating a sense of dissonance among individuals and the organization as a whole. The positive consequences can give rise to self-reinforcing stupidity. The negative consequences can spark dialogue, which may undermine functional stupidity.</span></div>
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From: <b class="yiv1632382245gmail_sendername">Caroline Stiegler</b><br>Date: Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 9:44 AM<br>
Subject: La stupidité fonctionnelle<br>To: <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:dante.monson@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:dante.monson@gmail.com">dante.monson@gmail.com</a><br><br><br>Chers adhérents et abonnés,<br>
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Nous vous recommandons vivement la lecture de<br>
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"La « stupidité fonctionnelle » à l’origine de la crise financière"<br>
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article accessible à partir du lien suivant :<br>
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<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://bigbrowser.blog.lemonde.fr/2013/02/14/la-loi-et-lordre-la-stupidite-fonctionnelle-a-lorigine-de-la-crise-financiere/">http://bigbrowser.blog.lemonde.fr/2013/02/14/la-loi-et-lordre-la-stupidite-fonctionnelle-a-lorigine-de-la-crise-financiere/</a><br>
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et qui est introduit ainsi par le quotidien Le Monde : “Selon une étude britannique, le monde de la finance serait dicté par l'attitude "fais d'abord, réfléchis après"”.<br>
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Ce qui est ici nommé functionnal stupidity désigne très précisément ce que nous appelons la bêtise systémique (stupidity se traduit très généralement en français par bêtise). Voici le résumé en anglais de l’étude publiée par le Journal of management studies (cf. <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-6486.2012.01072.x/abstract">http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-6486.2012.01072.x/abstract</a>) :<br>
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In this paper we question the one-sided thesis that contemporary organizations rely on the mobilization of cognitive capacities. We suggest that severe restrictions on these capacities in the form of what we call functional stupidity are an equally important if under-recognized part of organizational life. Functional stupidity refers to an absence of reflexivity, a refusal to use intellectual capacities in other than myopic ways, and avoidance of justifications. We argue that functional stupidity is prevalent in contexts dominated by economy in persuasion which emphasizes image and symbolic manipulation. This gives rise to forms of stupidity management that repress or marginalize doubt and block communicative action. In turn, this structures individuals' internal conversations in ways that emphasize positive and coherent narratives and marginalize more negative or ambiguous ones. This can have productive outcomes such as providing a degree of certainty
for individuals and<br>
organizations. But it can have corrosive consequences such as creating a sense of dissonance among individuals and the organization as a whole. The positive consequences can give rise to self-reinforcing stupidity. The negative consequences can spark dialogue, which may undermine functional stupidity.<br>
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Bien cordialement,<br>
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