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Values, Ethics, Purposes and Requirements
If we want to change our social systems for the better, we need to know what “better” means, and for whom.
Even the Prime Minister of Canada used to think we should start there; he wrote a book called “Value(s)”, in which he argued that we should put ethical values before financial value. Unfortunately, he seems to have changed his mind since becoming Prime Minister; he is now solidly in favour of growing the economy (rich people’s wealth and power) even if it means destroying the environment and retreating before Trump’s attacks.
I find it useful to distinguish a few levels of desired results of the behaviour of a social system. Values and ethics are broadly applicable across a whole society, whatever that may be. In a globalised world, it is the whole planet. It’s not clear to me how we could divide the world into parts with different basic values and avoid conflict, though maybe that is possible.
Values are broadly applicable set of basic principles that all social systems should satisfy. Examples include justice, equality of rights and dignity, duty and freedom.
Ethics are the rules of behaviour for individuals that enable the system to work according to the principles. Examples include treating others with respect and kindness, and showing solidarity with others.
Purposes and requirements are about specific systems.
- Purpose: The intended results of the system. Examples include, for a school, to provide students with the skills and knowledge they need, in specified areas. However, in all but the smallest systems, different people have different intentions. Some interested parties may want schools to produce “good” workers, whereas others may want them to help students to reach their full potential in directions defined by themselves.
- Requirements: The specific needs which a system must implement. Examples include “provide classroom instruction by people with specific skills”, “provide unbiased assessments of the capabilities of students as they enter and leave a program”.
In practice, it’s a lot more complex than this, and there is no clear dividing line between the levels. Whole schools of philosophy, with thousands of books and millions of scholarly papers have been devoted to values and ethics, and various post-secondary schools teach ethics aimed at specific systems, such as “business ethics.
I will have much more to say about this, later.
#Ethics #Philosophy #socialSystems #values -
Values, Ethics, Purposes and Requirements
If we want to change our social systems for the better, we need to know what “better” means, and for whom.
Even the Prime Minister of Canada used to think we should start there; he wrote a book called “Value(s)”, in which he argued that we should put ethical values before financial value. Unfortunately, he seems to have changed his mind since becoming Prime Minister; he is now solidly in favour of growing the economy (rich people’s wealth and power) even if it means destroying the environment and retreating before Trump’s attacks.
I find it useful to distinguish a few levels of desired results of the behaviour of a social system. Values and ethics are broadly applicable across a whole society, whatever that may be. In a globalised world, it is the whole planet. It’s not clear to me how we could divide the world into parts with different basic values and avoid conflict, though maybe that is possible.
Values are broadly applicable set of basic principles that all social systems should satisfy. Examples include justice, equality of rights and dignity, duty and freedom.
Ethics are the rules of behaviour for individuals that enable the system to work according to the principles. Examples include treating others with respect and kindness, and showing solidarity with others.
Purposes and requirements are about specific systems.
- Purpose: The intended results of the system. Examples include, for a school, to provide students with the skills and knowledge they need, in specified areas. However, in all but the smallest systems, different people have different intentions. Some interested parties may want schools to produce “good” workers, whereas others may want them to help students to reach their full potential in directions defined by themselves.
- Requirements: The specific needs which a system must implement. Examples include “provide classroom instruction by people with specific skills”, “provide unbiased assessments of the capabilities of students as they enter and leave a program”.
In practice, it’s a lot more complex than this, and there is no clear dividing line between the levels. Whole schools of philosophy, with thousands of books and millions of scholarly papers have been devoted to values and ethics, and various post-secondary schools teach ethics aimed at specific systems, such as “business ethics.
I will have much more to say about this, later.
#Ethics #Philosophy #socialSystems #values -
Values, Ethics, Purposes and Requirements
If we want to change our social systems for the better, we need to know what “better” means, and for whom.
Even the Prime Minister of Canada used to think we should start there; he wrote a book called “Value(s)”, in which he argued that we should put ethical values before financial value. Unfortunately, he seems to have changed his mind since becoming Prime Minister; he is now solidly in favour of growing the economy (rich people’s wealth and power) even if it means destroying the environment and retreating before Trump’s attacks.
I find it useful to distinguish a few levels of desired results of the behaviour of a social system. Values and ethics are broadly applicable across a whole society, whatever that may be. In a globalised world, it is the whole planet. It’s not clear to me how we could divide the world into parts with different basic values and avoid conflict, though maybe that is possible.
Values are broadly applicable set of basic principles that all social systems should satisfy. Examples include justice, equality of rights and dignity, duty and freedom.
Ethics are the rules of behaviour for individuals that enable the system to work according to the principles. Examples include treating others with respect and kindness, and showing solidarity with others.
Purposes and requirements are about specific systems.
- Purpose: The intended results of the system. Examples include, for a school, to provide students with the skills and knowledge they need, in specified areas. However, in all but the smallest systems, different people have different intentions. Some interested parties may want schools to produce “good” workers, whereas others may want them to help students to reach their full potential in directions defined by themselves.
- Requirements: The specific needs which a system must implement. Examples include “provide classroom instruction by people with specific skills”, “provide unbiased assessments of the capabilities of students as they enter and leave a program”.
In practice, it’s a lot more complex than this, and there is no clear dividing line between the levels. Whole schools of philosophy, with thousands of books and millions of scholarly papers have been devoted to values and ethics, and various post-secondary schools teach ethics aimed at specific systems, such as “business ethics.
I will have much more to say about this, later.
#Ethics #Philosophy #socialSystems #values -
Values, Ethics, Purposes and Requirements
If we want to change our social systems for the better, we need to know what “better” means, and for whom.
Even the Prime Minister of Canada used to think we should start there; he wrote a book called “Value(s)”, in which he argued that we should put ethical values before financial value. Unfortunately, he seems to have changed his mind since becoming Prime Minister; he is now solidly in favour of growing the economy (rich people’s wealth and power) even if it means destroying the environment and retreating before Trump’s attacks.
I find it useful to distinguish a few levels of desired results of the behaviour of a social system. Values and ethics are broadly applicable across a whole society, whatever that may be. In a globalised world, it is the whole planet. It’s not clear to me how we could divide the world into parts with different basic values and avoid conflict, though maybe that is possible.
Values are broadly applicable set of basic principles that all social systems should satisfy. Examples include justice, equality of rights and dignity, duty and freedom.
Ethics are the rules of behaviour for individuals that enable the system to work according to the principles. Examples include treating others with respect and kindness, and showing solidarity with others.
Purposes and requirements are about specific systems.
- Purpose: The intended results of the system. Examples include, for a school, to provide students with the skills and knowledge they need, in specified areas. However, in all but the smallest systems, different people have different intentions. Some interested parties may want schools to produce “good” workers, whereas others may want them to help students to reach their full potential in directions defined by themselves.
- Requirements: The specific needs which a system must implement. Examples include “provide classroom instruction by people with specific skills”, “provide unbiased assessments of the capabilities of students as they enter and leave a program”.
In practice, it’s a lot more complex than this, and there is no clear dividing line between the levels. Whole schools of philosophy, with thousands of books and millions of scholarly papers have been devoted to values and ethics, and various post-secondary schools teach ethics aimed at specific systems, such as “business ethics.
I will have much more to say about this, later.
#Ethics #Philosophy #socialSystems #values -
Values, Ethics, Purposes and Requirements
If we want to change our social systems for the better, we need to know what “better” means, and for whom.
Even the Prime Minister of Canada used to think we should start there; he wrote a book called “Value(s)”, in which he argued that we should put ethical values before financial value. Unfortunately, he seems to have changed his mind since becoming Prime Minister; he is now solidly in favour of growing the economy (rich people’s wealth and power) even if it means destroying the environment and retreating before Trump’s attacks.
I find it useful to distinguish a few levels of desired results of the behaviour of a social system. Values and ethics are broadly applicable across a whole society, whatever that may be. In a globalised world, it is the whole planet. It’s not clear to me how we could divide the world into parts with different basic values and avoid conflict, though maybe that is possible.
Values are broadly applicable set of basic principles that all social systems should satisfy. Examples include justice, equality of rights and dignity, duty and freedom.
Ethics are the rules of behaviour for individuals that enable the system to work according to the principles. Examples include treating others with respect and kindness, and showing solidarity with others.
Purposes and requirements are about specific systems.
- Purpose: The intended results of the system. Examples include, for a school, to provide students with the skills and knowledge they need, in specified areas. However, in all but the smallest systems, different people have different intentions. Some interested parties may want schools to produce “good” workers, whereas others may want them to help students to reach their full potential in directions defined by themselves.
- Requirements: The specific needs which a system must implement. Examples include “provide classroom instruction by people with specific skills”, “provide unbiased assessments of the capabilities of students as they enter and leave a program”.
In practice, it’s a lot more complex than this, and there is no clear dividing line between the levels. Whole schools of philosophy, with thousands of books and millions of scholarly papers have been devoted to values and ethics, and various post-secondary schools teach ethics aimed at specific systems, such as “business ethics.
I will have much more to say about this, later.
#Ethics #Philosophy #socialSystems #values -
Humans are Social Animals—We need each other
Here is a blog post about the limitations of individual humans, our power as social animals, our obligations to each other and the radical change in our social systems that we need to change the social systems that give power to sociopaths.
http://ericlawton.org/2026/07/10/humans-are-social-animals-we-need-each-other/
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Humans are Social Animals—We need each other
Here is a blog post about the limitations of individual humans, our power as social animals, our obligations to each other and the radical change in our social systems that we need to change the social systems that give power to sociopaths.
http://ericlawton.org/2026/07/10/humans-are-social-animals-we-need-each-other/
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Humans are Social Animals—We need each other
Here is a blog post about the limitations of individual humans, our power as social animals, our obligations to each other and the radical change in our social systems that we need to change the social systems that give power to sociopaths.
http://ericlawton.org/2026/07/10/humans-are-social-animals-we-need-each-other/
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Humans are Social Animals—We need each other
Here is a blog post about the limitations of individual humans, our power as social animals, our obligations to each other and the radical change in our social systems that we need to change the social systems that give power to sociopaths.
http://ericlawton.org/2026/07/10/humans-are-social-animals-we-need-each-other/
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Humans are Social Animals—We need each other
Here is a blog post about the limitations of individual humans, our power as social animals, our obligations to each other and the radical change in our social systems that we need to change the social systems that give power to sociopaths.
http://ericlawton.org/2026/07/10/humans-are-social-animals-we-need-each-other/
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Homelessness has been framed as a housing problem in NZ. The reality is more complex
> Interviews with 55 Aucklanders reveal how gaps between housing, health, income and justice services can make it harder to find a path out of homelessness.
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Homelessness has been framed as a housing problem in NZ. The reality is more complex
> Interviews with 55 Aucklanders reveal how gaps between housing, health, income and justice services can make it harder to find a path out of homelessness.
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Homelessness has been framed as a housing problem in NZ. The reality is more complex
> Interviews with 55 Aucklanders reveal how gaps between housing, health, income and justice services can make it harder to find a path out of homelessness.
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Homelessness has been framed as a housing problem in NZ. The reality is more complex
> Interviews with 55 Aucklanders reveal how gaps between housing, health, income and justice services can make it harder to find a path out of homelessness.
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Homelessness has been framed as a housing problem in NZ. The reality is more complex
> Interviews with 55 Aucklanders reveal how gaps between housing, health, income and justice services can make it harder to find a path out of homelessness.
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Oxford boaters every day commons
There will be increasing experience of commons as lived infrastructure, not theory, not an idea waiting to be implemented. As the #mainstreaming keeps failing people will need practical, community-led way of meeting shared needs that work and exists wherever people cooperate outside of markets and hierarchy. Commons are not abstract systems, they are what people do when they stop waiting for permission. We have a recent example - #Oxfordboaters it is messy commons in real time, not a perfect […]https://hamishcampbell.com/oxford-boaters-every-day-commons/
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HYBRIDMIND42 | APRIL 2026
Paper 6 — The Systemic Floor and Integrated Persistence
Evaluating Stability Across Measurement, Time, Signal, Intervention, and Access
#HybridMind42 #PublicPolicy #SystemsThinking #UKPolicy #SocialSystems #EconomicPolicy #Wellbeing #Accessibility #PolicyDesign #Inequality #ComplexSystems
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HYBRIDMIND42 | APRIL 2026
Paper 6 — The Systemic Floor and Integrated Persistence
Evaluating Stability Across Measurement, Time, Signal, Intervention, and Access
#HybridMind42 #PublicPolicy #SystemsThinking #UKPolicy #SocialSystems #EconomicPolicy #Wellbeing #Accessibility #PolicyDesign #Inequality #ComplexSystems
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HYBRIDMIND42 | APRIL 2026
Paper 6 — The Systemic Floor and Integrated Persistence
Evaluating Stability Across Measurement, Time, Signal, Intervention, and Access
#HybridMind42 #PublicPolicy #SystemsThinking #UKPolicy #SocialSystems #EconomicPolicy #Wellbeing #Accessibility #PolicyDesign #Inequality #ComplexSystems
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HYBRIDMIND42 | APRIL 2026
Paper 6 — The Systemic Floor and Integrated Persistence
Evaluating Stability Across Measurement, Time, Signal, Intervention, and Access
#HybridMind42 #PublicPolicy #SystemsThinking #UKPolicy #SocialSystems #EconomicPolicy #Wellbeing #Accessibility #PolicyDesign #Inequality #ComplexSystems
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HYBRIDMIND42 | APRIL 2026
Paper 6 — The Systemic Floor and Integrated Persistence
Evaluating Stability Across Measurement, Time, Signal, Intervention, and Access
#HybridMind42 #PublicPolicy #SystemsThinking #UKPolicy #SocialSystems #EconomicPolicy #Wellbeing #Accessibility #PolicyDesign #Inequality #ComplexSystems
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What if the problem isn’t access to support—
but the ability to access the system itself?https://substack.com/@hybridmind42/note/p-194712512?r=75c2ac
#HybridMind42 #PublicPolicy #UKPolicy #DWP #HMRC #MakingTaxDigital #SystemsThinking #Accessibility #DigitalInclusion #AdministrativeBurden #SocialSystems #PolicyDesign
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What if the problem isn’t access to support—
but the ability to access the system itself?https://substack.com/@hybridmind42/note/p-194712512?r=75c2ac
#HybridMind42 #PublicPolicy #UKPolicy #DWP #HMRC #MakingTaxDigital #SystemsThinking #Accessibility #DigitalInclusion #AdministrativeBurden #SocialSystems #PolicyDesign
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We started by asking: what do our systems see?
Now we ask: do they allow people time to adapt?
Paper 2 looks at pension changes through the lens of expectation boundaries. When those shift too late, people are left bridging the gap themselves.
Not collapse—
but strain where it matters most. -
We started by asking: what do our systems see?
Now we ask: do they allow people time to adapt?
Paper 2 looks at pension changes through the lens of expectation boundaries. When those shift too late, people are left bridging the gap themselves.
Not collapse—
but strain where it matters most. -
More "side effects" of the Netanyahu-Trump war.
Volkswagen may turn car factory into Iron Dome hub with Israel partnership
These large changes to our #SocialSystems have global ripple effects that shift everything away from peace and increase the likelihood of war.
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More "side effects" of the Netanyahu-Trump war.
Volkswagen may turn car factory into Iron Dome hub with Israel partnership
These large changes to our #SocialSystems have global ripple effects that shift everything away from peace and increase the likelihood of war.
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More "side effects" of the Netanyahu-Trump war.
Volkswagen may turn car factory into Iron Dome hub with Israel partnership
These large changes to our #SocialSystems have global ripple effects that shift everything away from peace and increase the likelihood of war.
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More "side effects" of the Netanyahu-Trump war.
Volkswagen may turn car factory into Iron Dome hub with Israel partnership
These large changes to our #SocialSystems have global ripple effects that shift everything away from peace and increase the likelihood of war.
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More "side effects" of the Netanyahu-Trump war.
Volkswagen may turn car factory into Iron Dome hub with Israel partnership
These large changes to our #SocialSystems have global ripple effects that shift everything away from peace and increase the likelihood of war.
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“Claude” isn't a person. It's not the kind of thing that could have had a job but no longer does. It can't “have” anything. It can't take responsibility for text posted on Substack.
We are damaging our social systems if we go along with the corporate marketing that tries to persuade us otherwise.
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“Claude” isn't a person. It's not the kind of thing that could have had a job but no longer does. It can't “have” anything. It can't take responsibility for text posted on Substack.
We are damaging our social systems if we go along with the corporate marketing that tries to persuade us otherwise.
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“Claude” isn't a person. It's not the kind of thing that could have had a job but no longer does. It can't “have” anything. It can't take responsibility for text posted on Substack.
We are damaging our social systems if we go along with the corporate marketing that tries to persuade us otherwise.
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“Claude” isn't a person. It's not the kind of thing that could have had a job but no longer does. It can't “have” anything. It can't take responsibility for text posted on Substack.
We are damaging our social systems if we go along with the corporate marketing that tries to persuade us otherwise.
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“Claude” isn't a person. It's not the kind of thing that could have had a job but no longer does. It can't “have” anything. It can't take responsibility for text posted on Substack.
We are damaging our social systems if we go along with the corporate marketing that tries to persuade us otherwise.
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Fresh Start for Better Systems
Because of family health challenges, I have had to ditch some of my community work and focus on home. But I am going to try to keep going on my book on Making a Better World, in the hopes that some of it might prove useful. #socialSystems
http://ericlawton.org/2026/02/21/fresh-start-for-better-systems/
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Fresh Start for Better Systems
Because of family health challenges, I have had to ditch some of my community work and focus on home. But I am going to try to keep going on my book on Making a Better World, in the hopes that some of it might prove useful. #socialSystems
http://ericlawton.org/2026/02/21/fresh-start-for-better-systems/
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Fresh Start for Better Systems
Because of family health challenges, I have had to ditch some of my community work and focus on home. But I am going to try to keep going on my book on Making a Better World, in the hopes that some of it might prove useful. #socialSystems
http://ericlawton.org/2026/02/21/fresh-start-for-better-systems/
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Fresh Start for Better Systems
Because of family health challenges, I have had to ditch some of my community work and focus on home. But I am going to try to keep going on my book on Making a Better World, in the hopes that some of it might prove useful. #socialSystems
http://ericlawton.org/2026/02/21/fresh-start-for-better-systems/
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Fresh Start for Better Systems
Because of family health challenges, I have had to ditch some of my community work and focus on home. But I am going to try to keep going on my book on Making a Better World, in the hopes that some of it might prove useful. #socialSystems
http://ericlawton.org/2026/02/21/fresh-start-for-better-systems/
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Fresh Start for Better Systems
I have not been well for some time; an iron deficiency has left me short of energy and easily out of breath. My wife’s health is even worse so I am her full-time caregiver, which means I have not caught up with the backlog of work from the year-end “holidays”, which added work for several gatherings in our home for guests we really wanted to do.
I have reluctantly abandoned several tasks for community give-back; I just don’t have the energy until we can fix this problem; I’m still awaiting several medical tests to try to determine the cause, though I have some relief from trans- and in-fusions.
But I have decided to keep up with writing my books, focusing on my Better Systems book. I have been working on it for 10 years, mostly for my own benefit in thinking about social systems. I have made—and fixed—enough mistakes while working on it that I think I should work towards publishing it, first on my website and then possibly commercially. To that end, I removed it all from the website because the content was getting inconsistent and I have just put the Introduction and top level Table of Contents back on the web and intend to fill in the content again as quickly as my energy-levels will permit. Since I’m in my final quarter-century, I don’t think I have another ten years left to work on it.
The table of contents also contains work on my autobiography and a planned book on philosophy.
Because it’s possible that I may try commercial publishing later, I am putting a copyright notice on the chapters, but will also put the main ideas on this blog under Creative Commons. After all, as I say in the Introduction, we owe almost all our ideas to the community. Since I read a lot of philosophy and history, “my” ideas have roots thousands of years old.
Any comments people make, that I use, will be acknowledged as theirs, and I may return the whole thing to the commons if it proves too much work to get it published.
I hope it proves useful to somebody, somewhere, sometime.
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Fresh Start for Better Systems
I have not been well for some time; an iron deficiency has left me short of energy and easily out of breath. My wife’s health is even worse so I am her full-time caregiver, which means I have not caught up with the backlog of work from the year-end “holidays”, which added work for several gatherings in our home for guests we really wanted to do.
I have reluctantly abandoned several tasks for community give-back; I just don’t have the energy until we can fix this problem; I’m still awaiting several medical tests to try to determine the cause, though I have some relief from trans- and in-fusions.
But I have decided to keep up with writing my books, focusing on my Better Systems book. I have been working on it for 10 years, mostly for my own benefit in thinking about social systems. I have made—and fixed—enough mistakes while working on it that I think I should work towards publishing it, first on my website and then possibly commercially. To that end, I removed it all from the website because the content was getting inconsistent and I have just put the Introduction and top level Table of Contents back on the web and intend to fill in the content again as quickly as my energy-levels will permit. Since I’m in my final quarter-century, I don’t think I have another ten years left to work on it.
The table of contents also contains work on my autobiography and a planned book on philosophy.
Because it’s possible that I may try commercial publishing later, I am putting a copyright notice on the chapters, but will also put the main ideas on this blog under Creative Commons. After all, as I say in the Introduction, we owe almost all our ideas to the community. Since I read a lot of philosophy and history, “my” ideas have roots thousands of years old.
Any comments people make, that I use, will be acknowledged as theirs, and I may return the whole thing to the commons if it proves too much work to get it published.
I hope it proves useful to somebody, somewhere, sometime.
#socialSystems -
Fresh Start for Better Systems
I have not been well for some time; an iron deficiency has left me short of energy and easily out of breath. My wife’s health is even worse so I am her full-time caregiver, which means I have not caught up with the backlog of work from the year-end “holidays”, which added work for several gatherings in our home for guests we really wanted to do.
I have reluctantly abandoned several tasks for community give-back; I just don’t have the energy until we can fix this problem; I’m still awaiting several medical tests to try to determine the cause, though I have some relief from trans- and in-fusions.
But I have decided to keep up with writing my books, focusing on my Better Systems book. I have been working on it for 10 years, mostly for my own benefit in thinking about social systems. I have made—and fixed—enough mistakes while working on it that I think I should work towards publishing it, first on my website and then possibly commercially. To that end, I removed it all from the website because the content was getting inconsistent and I have just put the Introduction and top level Table of Contents back on the web and intend to fill in the content again as quickly as my energy-levels will permit. Since I’m in my final quarter-century, I don’t think I have another ten years left to work on it.
The table of contents also contains work on my autobiography and a planned book on philosophy.
Because it’s possible that I may try commercial publishing later, I am putting a copyright notice on the chapters, but will also put the main ideas on this blog under Creative Commons. After all, as I say in the Introduction, we owe almost all our ideas to the community. Since I read a lot of philosophy and history, “my” ideas have roots thousands of years old.
Any comments people make, that I use, will be acknowledged as theirs, and I may return the whole thing to the commons if it proves too much work to get it published.
I hope it proves useful to somebody, somewhere, sometime.
#socialSystems -
Fresh Start for Better Systems
I have not been well for some time; an iron deficiency has left me short of energy and easily out of breath. My wife’s health is even worse so I am her full-time caregiver, which means I have not caught up with the backlog of work from the year-end “holidays”, which added work for several gatherings in our home for guests we really wanted to do.
I have reluctantly abandoned several tasks for community give-back; I just don’t have the energy until we can fix this problem; I’m still awaiting several medical tests to try to determine the cause, though I have some relief from trans- and in-fusions.
But I have decided to keep up with writing my books, focusing on my Better Systems book. I have been working on it for 10 years, mostly for my own benefit in thinking about social systems. I have made—and fixed—enough mistakes while working on it that I think I should work towards publishing it, first on my website and then possibly commercially. To that end, I removed it all from the website because the content was getting inconsistent and I have just put the Introduction and top level Table of Contents back on the web and intend to fill in the content again as quickly as my energy-levels will permit. Since I’m in my final quarter-century, I don’t think I have another ten years left to work on it.
The table of contents also contains work on my autobiography and a planned book on philosophy.
Because it’s possible that I may try commercial publishing later, I am putting a copyright notice on the chapters, but will also put the main ideas on this blog under Creative Commons. After all, as I say in the Introduction, we owe almost all our ideas to the community. Since I read a lot of philosophy and history, “my” ideas have roots thousands of years old.
Any comments people make, that I use, will be acknowledged as theirs, and I may return the whole thing to the commons if it proves too much work to get it published.
I hope it proves useful to somebody, somewhere, sometime.
#socialSystems -
Fresh Start for Better Systems
I have not been well for some time; an iron deficiency has left me short of energy and easily out of breath. My wife’s health is even worse so I am her full-time caregiver, which means I have not caught up with the backlog of work from the year-end “holidays”, which added work for several gatherings in our home for guests we really wanted to do.
I have reluctantly abandoned several tasks for community give-back; I just don’t have the energy until we can fix this problem; I’m still awaiting several medical tests to try to determine the cause, though I have some relief from trans- and in-fusions.
But I have decided to keep up with writing my books, focusing on my Better Systems book. I have been working on it for 10 years, mostly for my own benefit in thinking about social systems. I have made—and fixed—enough mistakes while working on it that I think I should work towards publishing it, first on my website and then possibly commercially. To that end, I removed it all from the website because the content was getting inconsistent and I have just put the Introduction and top level Table of Contents back on the web and intend to fill in the content again as quickly as my energy-levels will permit. Since I’m in my final quarter-century, I don’t think I have another ten years left to work on it.
The table of contents also contains work on my autobiography and a planned book on philosophy.
Because it’s possible that I may try commercial publishing later, I am putting a copyright notice on the chapters, but will also put the main ideas on this blog under Creative Commons. After all, as I say in the Introduction, we owe almost all our ideas to the community. Since I read a lot of philosophy and history, “my” ideas have roots thousands of years old.
Any comments people make, that I use, will be acknowledged as theirs, and I may return the whole thing to the commons if it proves too much work to get it published.
I hope it proves useful to somebody, somewhere, sometime.
#socialSystems -
The Epstein connection network graph is a large subnet of the global oligarchy network.
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The Epstein connection network graph is a large subnet of the global oligarchy network.
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The Epstein connection network graph is a large subnet of the global oligarchy network.
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The Epstein connection network graph is a large subnet of the global oligarchy network.
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The Epstein connection network graph is a large subnet of the global oligarchy network.
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The global oligarchy is a pedophile ring.
Who could have guessed?
Lord Acton, for one:
"Absolute power corrupts absolutely". -
The global oligarchy is a pedophile ring.
Who could have guessed?
Lord Acton, for one:
"Absolute power corrupts absolutely". -
The global oligarchy is a pedophile ring.
Who could have guessed?
Lord Acton, for one:
"Absolute power corrupts absolutely". -
The global oligarchy is a pedophile ring.
Who could have guessed?
Lord Acton, for one:
"Absolute power corrupts absolutely". -
The global oligarchy is a pedophile ring.
Who could have guessed?
Lord Acton, for one:
"Absolute power corrupts absolutely". -
Labour thinktank close to Morgan McSweeney paid firm to investigate journalists
Political parties always become antidemocratic. It's a systemic problem
> Labour Together hired company to look at Sunday Times and Guardian reporters after article about donations, documents suggest
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Labour thinktank close to Morgan McSweeney paid firm to investigate journalists
Political parties always become antidemocratic. It's a systemic problem
> Labour Together hired company to look at Sunday Times and Guardian reporters after article about donations, documents suggest
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Labour thinktank close to Morgan McSweeney paid firm to investigate journalists
Political parties always become antidemocratic. It's a systemic problem
> Labour Together hired company to look at Sunday Times and Guardian reporters after article about donations, documents suggest
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Labour thinktank close to Morgan McSweeney paid firm to investigate journalists
Political parties always become antidemocratic. It's a systemic problem
> Labour Together hired company to look at Sunday Times and Guardian reporters after article about donations, documents suggest
-
Labour thinktank close to Morgan McSweeney paid firm to investigate journalists
Political parties always become antidemocratic. It's a systemic problem
> Labour Together hired company to look at Sunday Times and Guardian reporters after article about donations, documents suggest