The system within - Club of Rome
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The system within - Club of Rome
Keely Adler added
Humanity is at a crossroads, will we be hoarders or healers? There is every reason to argue that history proves either. System Change is needed to find our way to another way of living that is not fed by exploitation of each other and the ecology. The change needed is not in any of the institutions, for surely they are interdependent, the change is... See more
Nora Bateson • Digging into Warm Data, The Warm Data Lab, and Certified Training.
dane cads and added
As Fritjof Capra says: a machine can be controlled, a living system can only be disturbed. At best, we will find ways of carefully nudging a living system. According to Donella Meadows, we must find its leverage points, those pivots that allow us to influence system behavior. Most importantly: after each cautious inter- vention, we must patiently o... See more
Understanding Living Systems
to fully abandon an exploitative and destructive status quo, we need to dig even deeper.
Worldview-Reform
We need to not only shift our attention toward the systems level but also toward the worldviews or mental models that lie behind it.
Thomas Klaffke • From Self-Reform to Worldview-Reform
Keely Adler added
What beliefs keep the system in place? And what new narratives could change or replace the system?
Or, as illustrated by one of my all-time favorite quotes:
*“The task is not so much to see what no one has yet seen; but to think what nobody has yet thought about that which everybody sees.”
*Erwin Schödinger
Thomas Klaffke • From Self-Reform to Worldview-Reform
Keely Adler added
the world is changing fundamentally due to several major factors: the shift in geological time from Holocene to Anthropocene, the impact of the internet and smart phones on the infosphere and lifeworld, capitalism running out of viable frontiers and being a complex adaptive system that has lost its ability to adapt, widespread governance failures, ... See more
Jonathan Rowson • Now that you’ve found the others what are you going to do? - Emerge
Stuart Evans added
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This new collective value system is apparent by looking at several intersecting trends: new cultural, spiritual, political, scientific, and social movements which point to a neo-romantic, post-ideological, open source, globally responsive, and paradox resolving grand narrative
Alex Fergnani • Metamodern Futures: Prescriptions for Metamodern Foresight
Keely Adler added