Luhmann writes: "Es geht nur um eine Präzisierung" (Luhmann, Niklas, Organisation und Entscheidung, Westdeutscher Verlag 2000, S. 242), which is what has been going on behind my commucative curtains lately.
The uncertainty about the future of EduSpaces added a further momentum not to use this blog as a publishing platform.
Well, this is all going to change - once again. On the scientific side, I have made great progress in unfolding a theory of elites, basing it's insights on current knowledge from as diverse fields as neuroscience, cybernetics, logic, psychology, mathematics, philosophy, biology and sociology.
We have to observe our own observations and accept the limitations of our observational abilities og cognitive capacities, wether the observer is a social or psychological observer. Elites can only emerge, if - and only if - there are societal observers willing to let elites act as such, freeing the non-elitarian observer from the burden of acting elitarian.
More to come.
Keywords: backagain, elite, luhmann, observation, theory
