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when a particular holon usurps its position in any holarchy—when it wants to be only a whole, and not also a part—then that natural or normal holarchy degenerates into a pathological or dominator holarchy,
Ken Wilber • A Brief History of Everything: Revised Edition
Based in the science of emergence, it’s relational, adaptive, fractal, interdependent, decentralized, transformative.
adrienne maree brown • Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
These emerging political imaginaries take on the intellectual work of breaking out of the polarisation between a wholly human-centric worldview (of the kind found in orthodox economics and most twentieth-century politics) and the extreme ecological view in which humans are to be despised and rejected. Such a reconnection was the promise of complexi
... See moreGeoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
Jeremy Lent • What Does An Ecological Civilization Look Like?
The performance of any part of an organic nonlinear system cannot be understood or predicted in isolation from the rest, but only in relationship to the rest. Such parts are no longer freely interchangeable, and the methodologies of reductionism are impotent.
Charles Eisenstein • The Ascent of Humanity: Civilization and the Human Sense of Self
A systems approach helps shift us from formulaic, mechanical responses to issues to fluid responses that see the interconnected and constantly changing elements that keep emerging.
Sharon Salzberg • Real Change: Mindfulness to Heal Ourselves and the World
If a node functions as if it is the totality of its identity, that it belongs only to its nodal part in the system, it will behave in a disconnected way, interdependence will shut down, and the whole complex system will lose its ability to adapt and learn. Its self-organization toward harmony will be compromised, and instead the system will move to
... See moreDaniel J. Siegel • IntraConnected
Systems thinking focuses on optimizing for the whole, looking at the overall flow of work, identifying what the largest bottleneck is today, and eliminating it. Then