Bottomed Up

"bottom up", if there is one intellectual theme to this moment in time, buttom up it is. the wired magazine hyper-capitalists chew it up, as do the neomarxist empire theorists. in science it takes the form of complexity theory and its more pop predecessor chaos theory. in politics its Howard Dean, moveon and michael moore, but more importantly john kerry and the democratic powerbase got hip to the kool aid quick and stole as many of the techniques as they could. in the media its weblogs and "long tails". on wall street and in neoclassical economics its about markets and believing in them. a lot of motherfuckers talking about "bottom up" thinking, as opposed to top down of course. this post is likely the first in a series, i kept on reading books that begged t...