Thomas
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Thomas
Nostalgia need not be conservative, stultifying or sentimental. Rather, expressions of nostalgia are one way we communicate a desire for the past, dissatisfaction about the present, and our visions for the future. My version of nostalgia will be joyful, creative and progressive.
Agnes Arnold-Forster • Nostalgia Was, in Freud’s Day, an Illness Steeped in the Past. Today, It Can Be a Joyful Emotion That Reframes the Future
Is not about the knowledge but about the intensity and the reason that created the purpose to seek such knowledge
Aalto University • Peter Senge: "Systems Thinking for a Better World" - Aalto Systems Forum 2014
You could say paradigms are harder to change than anything else about a system, and therefore this item should be lowest on the list, not second-to-highest. But there’s nothing physical or expensive or even slow in the process of paradigm change. In a single individual it can happen in a millisecond. All it takes is a click in the mind, a falling... See more
donellameadows.org • Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System
The growth of the economy is contingent on our dissatisfaction—because our dissatisfaction leads to consumption.
Leaving the Cult of Never Enough
Causal Layered Analysis: An Integrative and Transformative Theory and Method
Causal Layered Analysis (CLA) is a transformative futures research theory/method that integrates multiple layers of analysis to provoke critical thinking and create alternative visions for policy development and decision-making.
metafuture.org