How do we explain that “thing” (culture, norms, being …) and its importance (relative to other things e.g. institutions) to people?
And how it is cultivated?
Political science of last 30y: Institutions mattered but not nearly as much as expected because the dark matter (‘culture’) turned out to be more powerful than the mechanism. => what is that dark matter, how could we research it (why testable hypotheses), how is this difficult because "you can't talk about what can't be said".
What would a wise(r) world look like? The being of people, the culture, the institutions? And how would we get there?
What existing work is there?
How do you cultivate this?
What evidence is there that the "thing" trumps mechanisms and technology? e.g. Putnam
Socio-consult
What is the ontology?
What examples are there of the impact of culture? (e.g. finland, us, israel ...). Education etc
How do you measure the "wisdom" (probably multidimensional) of a group, an organization, a society ...
What are the dimensions
How do we measure
How does that show up in "action" and behaviours ... (e.g. problem solving, handling stress)
What is the link of "personal cognitive style" <=> "group dynamics"? How does the structure of groups and communities work and how that interacts with the being of those linkers (and surrounding culture)?
Who would oppose it? (those who like existing power dynamics?)
What does this contrast with e.g. mechanism design ...
What is the link of in(ter)dividual wisdom and group wisdom?
What ways can develop a group in this direction ...
On what topics?
What is this "thing" (wisdom)?
Analytical (what we have below), ideological/teleogical (big vision for the future).
What does it looked like at each level. Fractal: family, neighbourhood, enterprise, society, the world ...
What does education look like?
What does work look like?
Social evolution and selection dynamics ...
What is the assumed theory of being?
What does a wise army look like?
What does a wise police force look like?
What is the link of culture and group dynamics and institutions?
e.g. wiser being allows more (efficient) authoritarian structures without the downside risk (because culture catches that + some institutions) e.g. zen master in the monastery ...
No institutions can prevent you going bad (trump etc)
What is the interwovenness of culture and institutions (and technology)? [primacy of being. They totally interact, and loop over time and require labour ... and if that labour isn't done then pathologies arise -- it is not a mechanism it is evolving system that requires inputs of energy]
What is the primacy of being?
