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  1. Society has lost its direction. We are now driving blind, and the reason is reductionism. We’ve become so obsessed with breaking the world into tiny parts that we’ve forgotten how the whole thing actually hangs together.

    ocrampal.com/too-narrow-to-be-

    #SystemsThinking #Reductionism #Holism

  2. Society has lost its direction. We are now driving blind, and the reason is reductionism. We’ve become so obsessed with breaking the world into tiny parts that we’ve forgotten how the whole thing actually hangs together.

    ocrampal.com/too-narrow-to-be-

    #SystemsThinking #Reductionism #Holism

  3. Society has lost its direction. We are now driving blind, and the reason is reductionism. We’ve become so obsessed with breaking the world into tiny parts that we’ve forgotten how the whole thing actually hangs together.

    ocrampal.com/too-narrow-to-be-

    #SystemsThinking #Reductionism #Holism

  4. Society has lost its direction. We are now driving blind, and the reason is reductionism. We’ve become so obsessed with breaking the world into tiny parts that we’ve forgotten how the whole thing actually hangs together.

    ocrampal.com/too-narrow-to-be-

    #SystemsThinking #Reductionism #Holism

  5. Society has lost its direction. We are now driving blind, and the reason is reductionism. We’ve become so obsessed with breaking the world into tiny parts that we’ve forgotten how the whole thing actually hangs together.

    ocrampal.com/too-narrow-to-be-

    #SystemsThinking #Reductionism #Holism

  6. – Are you part of the problem or the solution?
    – Both.
    – ...??

    We’re all in the same system that created the problem. That’s the uncomfortable truth. Here’s the paradox:
    – Systems regularly face challenges they weren’t designed to handle
    – Yet we keep using reductionism—treating entities as just sums of parts while ignoring how those parts interact

    Reductionism searches for the root cause. But changing a single thing in one team can affect the other team in surprising ways. Holistic thinking reveals that there may be no single root, but cascading effects in which one problem triggers others, compounding until the system destabilizes.

    Next time you hear "root cause," ask: what if there isn’t one?

    #systemsthinking #complexsystems #holism #organizationaldesign

  7. Holism and Complementary Medicine; Origins and Principles by Vincent Di Stefano, 2025

    This popular text outlines the history and philosophy behind holistic therapies and examines the role they have to play in contemporary health systems.

    @bookstodon
    #books
    #nonfiction
    #holism
    #ComplementaryMedicine

  8. A quotation from Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

    So long as the body is affected through the mind, no audacious device, even of the most manifestly dishonest character, can fail of producing occasional good to those who yield it an implicit or even a partial faith.

    Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894) American poet, essayist, scholar
    Lecture (1842), “Homœopathy and Its Kindred Delusions,” Boston Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/holmes-sr-oliver-wen…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #homeopathy #medicine #body #holistic #holism #mind #placebo #suggestibility

  9. I wonder if I'm missing something, here.

    If tariffs put the brakes on global trade, resulting in inefficient markets with reduced sales and less transport of goods, isn't that a favorable outcome? An outcome that better avoids pollution and other unjust external costs?

    In the long run, of course, such costs are best addressed by tough environmental, labor, and safety regulations. Yet aren't Mr. Trump's tariff games a suitable temporary remedy? In light of how hard it is to get nations to fully implement tough regulations—?

    Regardless of Mr. Trump maybe neither wanting it nor considering it, market contractions always decrease externalities, right? If so, then by blocking commerce, Mr. Trump necessarily would block external harms too. Which have kind of been out of control for a long time.

    Unfettered trade and consumerism are bad. And tariffs prevent unfettered trade and consumerism, however clumsily and impermanently. Heh. Likewise, I imagine Mother Nature is elated whenever we humans propose or engage in trade wars. ☺️

    Therefore, I don't think I'll be complaining about any current tariff fiascos (cf. the article provided below) since a depression is not imminent, as of now; and slowing down our global economy would likely improve our world overall.

    #economics
    #externalities
    #holism
    #sacrifice

    reason.com/2025/04/24/over-150

  10. Revolution isn’t just protests or politics.
    Yavor Tarinski’s programmatic synthesis, the limits of economic determinism, Buckminster Fuller & Sufism

    ChatGPT: bit.ly/s-tmpirt

  11. Revolution isn’t just protests or politics.
    Yavor Tarinski’s programmatic synthesis, the limits of economic determinism, Buckminster Fuller & Sufism

    ChatGPT: bit.ly/s-tmpirt

    #Tarinski #BuckminsterFuller #Polanyi #Revolution #Democracy #Sufism #Holism #Sociocracy #Essay