Hybrid Response #9 – Fred Turner
I have to say, I don’t understand what any of this was talking about. I was lost throughout this entire reading. I didn’t understand the whole New left stuff, etc. I have no understanding of/interest in the political sphere. That being said, I will attempt to try to wrest so sort of explanation of what I guess all of this was talking about.
The New Left represents the establishment and the old way of doing things. This structure is based on a hierarchical power structure, with the power being focused at the top and being filtered down through established channels. The New Left embraced the idea that through the use/vehicle of politics, a change could be created in the way bureaucracy operated and transform people from individuals, into a collect force with a shared purpose.
The New Communalists, seemed to feel that bureaucracy was not the way in which the collective consciousness would be changed – rather, it would require an in depth integration of cybernetics and systems theory, as an alternative means/way to stabilize the social order through shared and the free flow of information through open communication. The idea that a top-down hierarchy was not the most effective way to motive, stimulate and inspire an environment where a solidarity was forged by the unrestricted flow of the information and communication through emotionally invested people.
Like I said, I don’t know if I am at all, on the right track, but this was the most sense I could glean from this reading. I’m finding this readings and ideas are becoming increasingly abstract and that what they are trying to say is lost on the common reader.
