Buckminster Fuller famously said:
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change
something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
Well, maybe not “never.” Sometimes it does help to give
the existing reality a nudge or two. But that alone, while possibly causing
change, will not necessarily bring about life-enhancing change. In this time of all-systems
breakdown and breakthrough, The Next System Project is doing just that, coming up
with holistic, systemic, ideas for how we might evolve our human-created
systems to be more in alignment with Earth, with Life.
And as an added surprise bonus (surprise to me, anyway), while
searching for Bucky’s quote above, I stumbled upon the following, which rings
true and sings to my heart:
I live on Earth
at present,
and I don't
know what I am.
I know that I
am not a category.
I am not a
thing -- a noun.
I seem to be a
verb,
an evolutionary
process --
an integral
function of the universe.
--- R.
Buckminster Fuller
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