I hate the man who appreciates the hatred Can’t stand the one who tolerates them all Least of all can I abide the ones who set them up just to watch them fall I love the woman who deals with…
Tag: Systems Sciences
The Friends of Ishmael Society
The Friends of Ishmael Society is an organization focused on publicizing systems thinking through the works of Daniel Quinn. Mark S. Meritt serves as a board member. Visit the Friends of Ishmael Society website.
To Scientific American, Re: Technological Fixes
On the whole, your balanced view of technology (SA Perspectives “Get Real,” 4/03) seems appropriate. However, when you suggest that to stop research is to give up trying to make the world a better place, you tend toward your own…
The Game of Community
Below are the notes to a speech given to the Rotary Club of Red Hook, NY. Speech Notes Red Hook — from NYC almost 3 years ago — bought home — more for your $ — but also to set…
The Sostenuto Perspective
Sostenuto hopes to bring a systems-thinking approach to every aspect of culture. By its nature, this approach keeps an open mind, acknowledging that it can never know everything about anything. At the same time, inherent in this approach is the…
Sostenuto Origins
This statement about the origins of Sostenuto: The Systems-Thinking Magazine of Arts & Sciences was originally written when the magazine was known as permaCulture and updated upon the transition to Sostenuto. Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution brought the greatest technological…
A Prelude to Begin With
Life on earth has been evolving for billions of years. For all this time nobody was “in control” and, most of all, nobody was “managing things.” If anything could be said to have been in control, it was natural selection.…
The Unsustainability and Origins of Socioeconomic Increase
This paper was written as a masters thesis for the City University of New York Graduate Center’s Master of Arts in Liberal Studies program. It describes the unsustainable nature of our civilization and suggests ways to achieve sustainability. It won…