Posted by SlapoutSlap, I think EBO is still a Barbie doll anyway you try to redefine her. She looks good, but she has no substance. You can keep putting different dresses on her, push up bra's, bikinis, high heeled shoes, Victoria Secret's finest lingere, etc., but she is still just a doll made of plastic. That last dress you put on her, was an attempt at a 1990s flashback, but you mis-stepped and actually had her strut down the catwalk in a 1970's dress.And that is the very essence of the original EBO theory as it relates to the original General Systems Theory
The EBO style, which emerged in the 90s had nothing to do with the sosphisticated point that M-A addressed, rather it was focused on technical sensors and putting steel on target, and predicting the effect of the outcome (see all, know all, shape all). EBO gradually evolved to assuming we could accurately guess second and third order effects of human/social behavior in reaction to our interagency activities. I think that line of thought developed about the same time that Meth became the drug of choice in our universities
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