Systems Theory
Build Your Own Damn Wagon
Schismogenesis, you’ll recall, describes how societies in contact with each other end up joined within a common system of differences, even as they attempt to distinguish themselves from one another.
David Graeber • The Dawn of Everything
Reminds me of the “narcissism of small differences”
Build Your Own Damn Wagon
This is blowing my mind. This stuff in combination with Levin’s work is very, very interesting.
Build Your Own Damn Wagon
This is the “double diamond”, and that’s interesting for “design thinking” because it shows the “problem space” and the “solution space”. But the big picture is that there is alternation between divergence and convergence. And it goes on forever.
—John Stuart Mill
Henrik Karlsson • Everything That Turned Out Well in My Life Followed the Same Design Process
Build Your Own Damn Wagon
McKenna being a “McLuhanite”
(I’m still not over the fact that he calls it “McLuhanite” when “McLuhanist” is obviously more correct. A rare lapse in aesthetic judgement by Terence :P )
Build Your Own Damn Wagon
Terence is referencing Ilya Prigogine
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By Terence McKenna