Epigraph from Thinking in Systems -- A Primer:
If a factory is torn down but the rationality which produced it is left standing, then that rationality will simply produce another factory. If a revolution destroys a government, but the systemic patterns of thought that produced that government are left intact, then those patterns will repeat themselves.... There's so much talk about the system. And so little understanding.
--Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Thinking in Systems is the primer that the subtitle promises. This book should be required reading for both libertarians and liberals. Both are guilty of not incorporating limits to growth in their respective philosophies.
From Understanding Knowledge as a Commons:
We hope the readers of this book take away a strong sense that there are indeed analytical commonalities underlying many problems of deep concern today. How do we build effective forms of collective action and self-organizing, self-governing initiatives? [p.21]
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