Friday, July 13, 2012

The Donella Meadows book looks to me to be a real job, unlike Gall's gall. Plus the section on leverage points includes self-organization which mentions the power of diversity - touching Scott E Page's words/book too.


There is yet one leverage point that is even higher than changing a para- digm. That is to keep oneself unattached in the arena of paradigms, to stay flexible, to realize that no paradigm is “true,” that every one, including the one that sweetly shapes your own worldview, is a tremendously limited understanding of an immense and amazing universe that is far beyond human comprehension. It is to “get” at a gut level the paradigm that there are paradigms, and to see that that itself is a paradigm, and to regard that whole realization as devastatingly funny. It is to let go into not-knowing, into what the Buddhists call enlightenment.
the buddha found this !! awesome !! Ingram, here I come.
Fred Kofman wrote in a systems journal: [Language] can serve as a medium through which we create new understandings and new realities as we begin to talk about them. In fact, we don’t talk about what we see; we see only what we can talk about.
mcluhan said this too !!!