Holding the dominant system in place
Why is it hard for us to move from dominant system into emergent system? What holds the current system in place?
Holding the dominant system in place
We live (and die) inside of systems that were imagined centuries ago by those ambitious and narrow minds of colonists and patriarchs. We live inside the lineage of relatively ignorant imaginations, which were obsessed with protection and domination. But we know so much more now. We know each other’s pain and complexity now; we know we are one... See more
adrienne maree brown • Murmurations: Returning to the Whole
Our number one challenge isn’t biodiversity loss, climate change, polarization, societies falling apart, or AI. It is our widespread illusion of insignificance—the belief that there’s nothing we can do about it. Surveys show that more than two-thirds of people worldwide feel a loss of agency in our collective decision-making.
Entering
André Gide that says “One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.”
Mille Bojer • Facilitation isn’t magic
If a factory is torn down but the rationality which produced it is left standing, then that rationality will simply produce another factory. If a revolution destroys a government, but the systematic patterns of thought that produced that government are left intact, then those patterns will repeat themselves. . . . There’s so much talk about the
... See moreI lament my own immersion in an economy that grinds what is beautiful and unique into dollars, converts gifts to commodities in a currency that enables us to purchase things we don't really need whole destroying what we do
Robin Wall Kimmerer, The Serviceberry
It must be considered that there is nothing more difficult to carry out nor more doubtful of success nor more dangerous to handle than to initiate a new order of things; for the reformer has enemies in all those who profit by the old order, and only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit by the new order; this lukewarmness arising partly... See more