12 June 2012

The systems we have

The political, financial, banking, judicial, industrial, commercial ...

The systems aren't wrong, just old -- reflective of a more traditional, contracted and hierarchical way of thinking.
They where once new and innovative.
They got us here but can't get us there.
Much and many are invested in these older systems--there is fear of the new, fear the loss (CISAP).
They are strong but vulnerable.
All systems end their days as self-destructive, even the biggest one of all, the universe.
Even self-destructive systems cling to survival, as irrational as it may seem (see Syria).
Systems sensing attack, contract into more archaic and fundamental beliefs (USA fundamentalism).
It's impossible to predict the degree of conflict, or future depth and degree of systemic collapse.
A random sequence of apparently unconnected events could cascade as an unfolding in any direction.
Our existing systems evolved mostly out of relative unconsciousness, now there's the prospect of intentional design.
Human systems didn't develop and don't exist independently from natural systems, each influences the other (global warming & climate change).

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