old keys won't open new doors

Woolf says you cannot simply oppose war while leaving intact the structures that produce war.

“It is learning how to stand alone, unpopular and sometimes reviled, and how to make common cause with those others identified as outside the structures in order to define and seek a world in which we can all flourish. It is learning how to take our differences and make them strengths. For the masters tools will never dismantle the master's house.

One thing I am starting to get the hang of is igniting suspicion toward those impulsive solutions which appear at first to make the most logical and rational sense, recognizing that they are probably informed by the same systems that created the problems to begin with.

Nora Bateson, Combining

You can't practice 21st-century strategy inside 20 th -century structures. Everything we've outlined requires one core shift: from extraction to stewardship.

Changing the answer is evolution, Changing the question is revolution.

—Jorge Wagensberg

We grew up in societies built upon certain assumptions about how the world works, and how the planet around us should be seen. We now know those assumptions were wrong in profound ways,

Many of us have clear visions of what kind of world we don’t want to live in, but are struggling to imagine the kind of world we would live in - let alone how to build that world. We need new narratives to illuminate what’s broken in our society and hands-on solutions for a more sustainable, equal and resilient world.

Erwin Schödinger: “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.”

the overarching early 21st-century conundrum is not so much about problem-solving or policy innovation, but primarily a challenge of perception and imagination