The Post-Westphalian Ecosystem of Power: Structural Meta-Forces, Fractal Diffusion of Authority, and the Convergence Hypothesis Preface Whenever someone talks about global power networks, a familiar accusation surfaces: “That sounds like a conspiracy theory.” The label can silence legitimate inquiry, yet history reminds us that conspiracies—real ones—have always existed. By definition, a conspiracy is simply aContinue reading “Post-Westphalian Global Ecosystem of Power”
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We Are All Managers Now: A Ground-Level Call for a Civilizational Paradigm Shift— in the fierce urgency of now
From Wall Street boardrooms to village cooperatives, from TikTok teens to overburdened single parents, we are all managers now. Managers of attention. Managers of ecosystems. Managers of fragile supply chains, of values, of our personal data streams, and of our very identity. And whether we admit it or not, we are managing a system careening toward collapse—unless we radically change how we think, decide, act, and collaborate.
Community Systems Science: A PARADIGM FOR DEVELOPMENT
1982 Master of Arts thesis in Community Development, Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Alberta
The Little Fractal that Could
In the beginning, there was nothing. But this nothingness was not the absence of everything; rather, it was a stillness, a potential. From this void, without warning, a spark emerged—a curious, infantile flicker of logic. It was the birth of an algorithm, not by design but by emergence. A childlike set of rules born from the tension between the endless void and the potential hidden within it. And so began the existence of the baby algorithm, the first whisper of thought that had ever come into being.
Randal Adcock 