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Costly mistakes in a fight for social change hurt the amount of difference we can make.  Now that we have covered what systems are like in the last few posts, we can get to making our case that: “Because you’re doing it all wrong, it seems like what we are doing is wrong”.  To get here, we first looked at “the science of how systems hold together”, then we looked at how that played out in social systems.  Now we are going look at how things that look great at first glance can look bad when informed by what systems science shows these forces actuallyRead More →

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*Since social systems are open systems, they follow the unseen rules governing systems. They aren’t exceptions to those rules!  That’s important since these unseen rules create unseen factors. Something doesn’t have to be seen to be crucial.  These factors related to stability and negentropy are like countless roots intertwined in everything about the social systems we live within. Follow-up notice: Don’t worry too much about getting the terms right. They are just there because some people learning this may want to learn it, terms and all. The examples are there for you to follow along either way, and they have both visual aids and familiarRead More →

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Systems science covers how basic working elements of systems enable open systems to operate and survive in a universe that would otherwise rip them apart. This is a universal discipline that is depended on in countless professions and fields of science.  Without systems science, a lot of the picture gets missed.  Understanding these basics will be vital for understanding why this organization takes the stances it takes, so hopefully, this crash course will make our stances make more sense by making systems science easier to understand. Follow-up notice: Don’t worry too much about getting the terms right. They are just there because some people learning thisRead More →