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Why do we need to think and act more systemically?
Why do we need to think and act more systemically? The power and majesty of nature in all its aspects is lost on one who contemplates it merely in the detail of its parts and not as a whole. — Pliny the Elder An increasing number of people are beginning to understand that the world we participate […]
How Systems Collapse
How Systems Collapse This is how systems collapse: faith in the visible surface of abundance reigns supreme, and the fragility of the buffers goes unnoticed. I often discuss systems and systemic collapse, and I’ve drawn up a little diagram to illustrate a key dynamic in systemic collapse. The key concepts here are stability and buffers. […]
Things Work Until They Don’t
Things Work Until They Don’t As the world begins its next adventure in financial chaos and rolls over to expose its soft underbelly of lies and deceit that have been perpetrated on the public, those that see the truth have been warning the people once again. You can give people the truth but you cannot make […]
Why Systems Fail
Why Systems Fail Since failing systems are incapable of structural reform, collapse is the only way forward. Systems fail for a wide range of reasons, but I’d like to focus on two that are easy to understand but hard to pin down. 1. Systems are accretions of structures and modifications laid down over time.Each layer […]
Culture shift: redirecting humanity’s path to a flourishing future
Culture shift: redirecting humanity’s path to a flourishing future It’s time to build a new worldview around a deeper sense of connectedness. Honghe Hani Rice Terraces in Yunnan Province, China.. Credit: By Jialiang Gao, www.peace-on-earth.org – Original Photograph via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0. What do all these ideas have in common—a tax on carbon, big investments […]
Sarah Woods on imagination and “the crisis of what comes next”.
Sarah Woods on imagination and “the crisis of what comes next”. If it is true that we are living through a time in which our collective imagination is increasingly devalued and undernourished, what might be the role of story in that, and how might story be part of the remedy? There are few better people […]
What do I mean by Skin in the Game? My Own Version
What do I mean by Skin in the Game? My Own Version When selecting a surgeon for your next brain procedure, should you pick a surgeon who looks like a butcher or one who looks like a surgeon? The logic of skin in the game implies you need to select the one who (while credentialed) looks […]
“The Market Is On The Edge Of Chaos, A Zone Where Rare Events Become Typical”
“The Market Is On The Edge Of Chaos, A Zone Where Rare Events Become Typical” According to Fasanara Capital, which has long argued that the market’s systemic fragility is approaching its breaking point, markets stand at a critical juncture, ready to snap, as the following note from Fasanara’s Francesco Filia lays out. * * * […]
Rising Social Disorder Is Inevitable: Here’s Why
Rising Social Disorder Is Inevitable: Here’s Why We can do better, and if we don’t, the only possible output of such an unequal system is increasing social disorder. We are in a very peculiar point in history. On the one hand, we’re reassured that all is well because Every One of the World’s Big Economies […]
The Collapse of Media and What You Can Do About It
The Collapse of Media and What You Can Do About It Photo by Poster Boy | CC BY 2.0 When a system enters into the final stage of its deterioration – whether that is an institutional system, a state, an empire, or the human body – all the important information flows that support coherent communication […]
Too Good For Too Long
Shutterstock Too Good For Too Long Over-extended systems contract quickly & violently I’m writing this from my home in Sonoma County at the end of an intense week of witnessing firsthand the devastation caused by the many current fires burning in northern California. While it’s hard to focus on anything other than the moment-to-moment developments […]
Peak Oil; Climate Change; & System Justification Pt 8
Peak Oil; Climate Change; & System Justification Pt 8 Of course it’s threatening to think that our lifestyles, systems of governing, and capitalist processes themselves may all face drastic changes in the not-too-distant future because of the facts and reality of Peak Oil and climate change! I’m certainly notthe poster-child for Peak Oil advocacy and lifestyles. I […]
Exit from the Megamachine
Exit from the Megamachine Why a social-ecological transformation is impossible without changing the deep structures of our economy Opening a newspaper or listening to the radio news exposes us to a flood of catastrophic messages: devastating droughts, failing states, terrorist attacks, and financial crashes. You can look at all those incidents as unconnected singular phenomena, […]
