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but be careful not to fall for its surface-level charm

While all layers are always present and all are vital to understand any situation, Inayatullah (2003b, p.6) places a “higher” value on the mythic/metaphor layer because it informs all the other layers. Meadows (2008) similarly believes the most effective leverage point in a system is one that “transcends the paradigm”. For Meadows the “highest”... See more

Futures Triangle.

The Futures Triangle is a framework designed by Sohail Inayatullah to aid in understanding and planning for potential futures. This method involves identifying and analysing three distinct forces that influence the development of the change being explored.

Firstly, there is the "pull of futures," which encompasses the current... See more

Is not about the knowledge but about the intensity and the reason that created the purpose to seek such knowledge

The author suggests that Amish are not “radical” because they chose to shun particular technologies, but rather “because they actually make decisions , rather than allowing the decision to be made for them by something called ‘progress.’”

“By paying a certain kind of attention, you can humanise or dehumanise, cherish or strip of all value. By a kind of alienating, fragmenting and focal attention, you can reduce humanity – or art, sex, humour, or religion – to nothing. You can so alienate yourself from a poem that you stop seeing the poem at all, and instead come to see in its place... See more