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Seeing Like a State: How Tops-Down Management Styles Create Disaster in Complex Systems | William Hurst

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What Is the Difference Between Metis and Dolos?

Metis is, I believe, the mother of Athena if I'm not mistaken. She helped Zeus to free his siblings from the stomach of Kronos by supplying him with some agent that would make his father fall asleep or not feel him opening up his stomach and freeing his siblings. And so she's sort of a helper of good things and a purveyor of wisdom in a sort of non-systematic sense as Scott conceives of her. Dolos then takes on this role of being kind ofpurveyor of false wisdom and engaging in trickery and fraud throughout the mythological world.

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