Where Is The Feedback Loop?
If something seems like it is going headlong in one direction, without anybody deciding that it has to go that way … the first step to understanding it is to ask, where is the positive feedback loop? A positive feedback loop means that the consequence of a driving force has its own impact, which amplifies the driving force. If something that seems like an obvious solution seems to keep getting stalled, never getting off the ground … the first step to understanding it is to ask, where is the negative feedback loop? A negative feedback loop means that the consequence of a driving force has its own impact, which undermines the driving force. {And, of course, our society is a system, and our economy a subsystem within it, so a positive feedback loop elsewhere in the system can serve to suppress a solution by maintaining an unnecessary obstacle, while a negative feedback loop on a potential control or solution can help keep a problem locked into place.} A lot of things built on a positi
