Yet linearity in policing, in trying, in judging, and in sentencing people is said to be a solution to crime. Linear and Negative Feedback. Both are hostile to the transcending stability of social life. If we want to maintain the stability of a social life world, then we must consider at what point we must change from linear feedback to non-linear in our social policies. Market dynamics work on the basis of positive feedback to firms, investors, inventors and workers.
Rationality becomes enemy to social stability for such people.
At some point, social policy must transcend the thin rationality of mechanistic logic and deploy the larger rationality of mercy, compassion, hope and faith in things not known with certainty. In such non-linear dynamics, we could be sure that efforts to reduce mismatch between desire and resouces would entail a great deal more surprize in the lives of those whose devices are limited but whose desire, fueled by adverizing is not limited. Daily, weekly, seasonal and yearly cycles are such iterations. Given the same set of kids in the same conditions each cycle would produce slightly new behaviors in class, in play, in crime or in family life would be expected. Given the same set of doctors in the same conditions, each new cycle would produce different rates of crime.