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10/24/11
SYSTEMS & PEOPLE
Filed under: General
Posted by: @ 5:24 am

We shape the world and the world shapes us.

Put good people in bad systems, and the
people become bad. Bad systems can’t and
don’t change themselves. Only people can,
and only—and this is crucial—before
they have become bad.

SEEING NATURAL LIMIT?
In extremes is clarity. In exceptions,
the new rule. In excess, the contradiction
that portends collapse.

CONTROL & ILLUSION
The urge to control begins with the
illusion of separateness and independence;
it ends with contradiction and collapse.

The privatization of Necessity?
Once the flow of water is in corporate hands,
the damming of Freedom cannot be much
further down stream.

The privatization of Necessity?
Once the flow of information is in corporate hands,
the damming of Freedom can’t be much
further down stream.

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