Category Archives: Dear Diary

We Need a Grassroots Movement

The author emphasizes the need for a new social order that aligns with human nature, highlighting historical civil collapses due to unmanageable complexity. They critique existing structures like the Strong Man, Holy Man, and Man of Science for failing to adapt to evolving knowledge. A grassroots movement is proposed to enhance collective intelligence and leadership, addressing our inherent diversities effectively.

Diary of X’aloren, Observer of Civilizations

**Abstract:**
The diary of X’aloren, an extraterrestrial observer, chronicles the unfolding civil entropy of Earth’s global civilization. Through a systems worldview, the alien reflects on humanity’s maladaptive patterns: the amplification of chaos, bureaucratic overgrowth, social fragmentation, and the myth of infinite growth. As X’aloren examines the recursive dynamics of decline, the diary contemplates whether humans will transcend their systemic limitations or succumb to a slow, asymptotic collapse.

Adopting the Systems Worldview

Dear Diary: It should be clear by now that all living things are value generators. We all, humans plants and animals, take inputs from our environments and produce outputs that are of greater value for ourselves and others. And when we do so, we sustain a state of happiness. So what is that “value“? PartContinue reading “Adopting the Systems Worldview”

Not Public Policy, Not Ideology

Dear Diary: I have come to believe that the positions that people take on public policy issues has very little to do with public policy outcomes or ideology. It seems to me that people are reacting as social animals, not critical or objective thinkers. There is nothing rational about this. Its all emotional and instinctive.Continue reading “Not Public Policy, Not Ideology”

Still

Dear Diary:All systems break down from too much noise, information that can’t be meaningfully interpreted and managed.When change is too frequent for reaction.When there are too many moving parts to track.When the linkages and consequences are too long and diverse to monitor.When learning curves are endless and not recyclable, and skills and knowledge are thenContinue reading “Still”

Practise! There is still more…

Dear Diary:Practice makes perfect.As I explore the universe I realize that meanings run out to infinity, as force fields dissipate into oblivion. Is there a sharp line between the concrete and the abstract?No. It is a continuum from perception to perfection, with an asymptote at either end progressing toward the ultimate reality-in-itself, but never reachingContinue reading “Practise! There is still more…”

The Shifting Notion of Morality

I sense that our human notion of morality is shifting, perhaps in profound ways. We used to think of moral behaviour in terms of the ancient codes of don’t do this or that. “If you do that you will be punished.” People were treated as ‘moral agents’ of goodness or evil, angels or demons. Now,Continue reading “The Shifting Notion of Morality”

Personal Resilience

I am impressed with the social media displays of personal resilience in the face of our common yet uncommon troubles. I see landscapes that ground us. I see paintings that express us. I see humor that refills us. I see poems that reframe us in our world, and hear music that reminds us of ourContinue reading “Personal Resilience”