Andrei Lubalin on Competitive vs Cooperative Rationality

Typology

Andrei Lubalin:

"Industrial-era discourse operates on an implicit assumption that can be called competitive rationality: A framework in which the locally rational action for a subject is to maximize individual advantage under conditions of restricted access.

Within such an environment, cooperation appears as an exception, a moral effort, or a temporary deviation — never as a stable equilibrium.

Exiting this limit requires rejecting the dogma of competitive rationality itself.

The focus must shift to the Engineering of Cooperative Rationality: The search for systemic conditions under which cooperation becomes the sole rational strategy for survival for the subject, not an ethical preference, not a cultural norm, but a structurally enforced outcome.

Anything that does not lead to the emergence of cooperative rationality remains a hybrid of the old logic, regardless of its rhetoric."

(https://medium.com/predict/on-the-limits-of-the-current-social-discourse-1a0f74f48ce4)