What turns a crisis into a moment for substantive change? | Aeon Essays
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What turns a crisis into a moment for substantive change? | Aeon Essays
How do systems change? How can we move towards the just communities we need and want?
The natural process of ecological replacement highlights two mechanisms at work in replacing a dominant the landscape and seems too big to change.
Succession relies in part on incremental change, the slow, steady replacement of that which does not serve ecological f
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And that’s often all a crisis is – a big change.
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The economist Milton Friedman once wrote: Only a crisis—actual or perceived—produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around. That, I believe, is our basic function: to develop alternatives to existing policies, to keep them alive and available until the politically impossible becom
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But every so often glimmering instants of kairos or “supreme moments” emerged—turning points, critical junctures, dependent on contingency and chance, when opportunities emerged and unexpected, unimagined, transformative new paths could be chosen.
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As the economist Milton Friedman once wrote: ‘Only a crisis – actual or perceived – produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around. That, I believe, is our basic function: to develop alternatives to existing policies, to keep them alive and available until the politically impossib
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