{"id":7076,"date":"2015-04-03T07:48:29","date_gmt":"2015-04-03T12:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7076"},"modified":"2015-04-03T07:48:29","modified_gmt":"2015-04-03T12:48:29","slug":"its-time-to-get-serious-about-systemic-solutions-to-systemic-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7076","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Time to Get Serious About Systemic Solutions to Systemic Problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.garalperovitz.com\/2015\/04\/time-get-serious-systemic-solutions-systemic-problems\/\" target=\"_blank\">It\u2019s Time to Get Serious About Systemic Solutions to Systemic Problems<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>It\u2019s getting harder and harder to be an optimist. A deep economic crisis has given way to a profoundly unequal recovery. Climate catastrophe is steadily unfolding across the globe. And the work of building a racially inclusive society appears to be stalled \u2014 indeed, in many areas, to be losing ground. All of this in an age of unprecedented technological progress, which has manifestly failed to keep its promises. If there is one saving grace, it is that the pain caused by these interconnected failures make it possible \u2014 for the first time in modern history \u2014 to pose the question of system change in a serious fashion, even in the United States, the faltering heart of global capitalism.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/center><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">To pose the system question means first and foremost to point out that long, failing trends are anchored far more deeply in political-economic structures than conventional political debate suggests. It is to ask how the system is built, for whom, and how it operates to recurrently produce the decaying outcomes we are experiencing. There is, in fact, no shortage of people today to tell us that something is wrong, that things are built to work for the wealthy, for the white and for those far from the frontlines of climate and social calamity. Such diagnoses are increasingly commonplace and harder and harder to contest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">It is no major leap from such anguished complaints to recognition that the system itself \u2013American corporate capitalism \u2014 is generating the outcomes we witness; that we do, indeed, face a systemic challenge, one manifestly not responsive to traditional political approaches and strategies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s Time to Get Serious About Systemic Solutions to Systemic Problems It\u2019s getting harder and harder to be an optimist. A deep economic crisis has given way to a profoundly unequal recovery. Climate catastrophe is steadily unfolding across the globe. And the work of building a racially inclusive society appears to be stalled \u2014 indeed, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[4609,4611,737,4610,4608,3721],"class_list":["post-7076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","category-survival-2","tag-change","tag-corporate-capitalism","tag-sociocultural","tag-sociopolitical","tag-systemic-change","tag-systems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7077,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7076\/revisions\/7077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}