It’s my assessment that because of the understanding of the most significant variables and leverage points, you have shared, that Project 2025 has taken control of 10 of the 12 of the most critical leverage points.
And in a relative short time, they are achieving many of the 2025 goals.
It also seems to me that when the foundational leverages are in alignment, (2025) the goals are inevitable. Almost like being on auto pilot. Congress has abdicated its power creating a positive (?) feed back loop. Congress abdicates power, Trump takes power. His power grows daily.
The bricks that hold up our constitutional wall are continually being removed.
Exactly what Hitler accomplished. And exactly what Orwell described.
So … How would you and your system thinking experts engage Trump? (that’s not sarcasm)
How would you reclaim the 10 lost leverage points?
Related. Is systems thinking essentially a historical analysis, like global warming. We have a very sophisticated understanding of the system dynamics.
Which leads many scientists to conclude that given that we are beyond tipping points, we no longer can influence desired goals.
With Trump, have we already passed enough tipping points so that fascism is inevitable?
Is systems thinking relevant for change or just a sophisticated way of understanding history?
If you go for the top lever — paradigm — then the change is really about how people think about power in the first place. For example, if people started thinking that politicians only have power because we collectively give it to them, things like taxes, voting, and the policies we accept would probably look very different.
It’s basically realising we don’t have to keep playing the same game in the same way.
That’s why I think systems thinking can actually be useful for change. If the way people see the system shifts, everything else tends to shift with it.
Thank you.
Some questions:
Can we “dance” with fascism and Trump?
It’s my assessment that because of the understanding of the most significant variables and leverage points, you have shared, that Project 2025 has taken control of 10 of the 12 of the most critical leverage points.
And in a relative short time, they are achieving many of the 2025 goals.
It also seems to me that when the foundational leverages are in alignment, (2025) the goals are inevitable. Almost like being on auto pilot. Congress has abdicated its power creating a positive (?) feed back loop. Congress abdicates power, Trump takes power. His power grows daily.
The bricks that hold up our constitutional wall are continually being removed.
Exactly what Hitler accomplished. And exactly what Orwell described.
So … How would you and your system thinking experts engage Trump? (that’s not sarcasm)
How would you reclaim the 10 lost leverage points?
Related. Is systems thinking essentially a historical analysis, like global warming. We have a very sophisticated understanding of the system dynamics.
Which leads many scientists to conclude that given that we are beyond tipping points, we no longer can influence desired goals.
With Trump, have we already passed enough tipping points so that fascism is inevitable?
Is systems thinking relevant for change or just a sophisticated way of understanding history?
If you go for the top lever — paradigm — then the change is really about how people think about power in the first place. For example, if people started thinking that politicians only have power because we collectively give it to them, things like taxes, voting, and the policies we accept would probably look very different.
It’s basically realising we don’t have to keep playing the same game in the same way.
That’s why I think systems thinking can actually be useful for change. If the way people see the system shifts, everything else tends to shift with it.
She explains it really well in this paper:
https://donellameadows.org/wp-content/userfiles/Leverage_Points.pdf
Thank you.