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10% More Psycho: On Tolstoy, Gandhi, and Christ with Mike Elias of IdeaMarket.io

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The Market Like Risk Management Metaphor

Idea market is trying to build the notion of the market metaphor into our collective sense making cause right now. We're using vestigial epistemic structures from a time when we didn't have the ability to read all the books in the world at once and follow people who were reporting from istambol live. And if you rebelled too hard against the certainty that was created by the aknowledged institutions of the time, you would be burned at the stake or exiled. Instead of trying to quell the fear of uncertainty by installing false and fragile certainties, we need mechanisms for responsibly managing and relating to the inevitable uncertainty of knowledge.

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