Bottom-up versus top-down solutionizing
Bottom-up versus top-down solutionizing
(first published in reaction on a blog article at http://www.bubblegeneration.com/2008/02/bankrupted.cfm )
This is the distinction that you can come up with.
The difference between to the styles can be pictured easily with this image:
If everyone cleans up the room after staying there a while, the room doesn’t get to dirty and the cleaning staff is quite happy to achieve a higher standard of cleaniness.
If no-one cleans up the room after passing bye, the room gets so dirty that even the cleaning staff is desperate about the chances of cleaning the room upto an acceptable level.
The same goes for security (everyone looks out /vs/ no-one), civilty (everyone is polite /vs/ no-one) and tolerance (everyone is tolerant /vs/ no-one).
No authority can dictate society, society is born with the effort put into it by individuals.
Society is an emerging level of individual behavior. Any chance of that behavior is a change of the society as a whole.
