Stephan Goetschius's List: Systems Design

• ng the same technologies but often fail to understand that we had the gift of literary education. We can reflect on issues. We can meditate. We can make independent choices, exercise fairness, avoid snap judgments, examine our own prejudices, listen to viewpoints of others that differ from our own, base our opinions on fact, exercise discretion, acknowledge when we are wrong, and analyze people, topics, and events methodically.

   

  Those are attributes of critical thinking

• Buckminster
• "You do not have the right to eliminate yourself, you do not belong to you. You belong to the universe. The significance of you will forever remain obscure to you, but you may assume that you are fulfilling your significance if you apply yourself to converting all your experience to the highest advantage of others."
• "Do you have any experiential evidence that forces you to assume a greater intellect operating in the universe? My answer was swift and positive. Experience demonstrated an orderliness of interactive, exceptionless principles. I was overwhelmed by this, and more convinced that my purpose was to abet the inclusion of human beings in the design of the universe. I'm absolutely convinced that everything that has happened to me since that time has been through my commitment to this greater integrity. Many times I've chickened, and everything inevitably goes wrong. But then, when I return to my commitment, my life suddenly works again. There's something of the miraculous in that."
• ritish Architects. He would acquire twenty-eight U.S. patents for his inventions. Bucky kept his vow and committed his entire productivity to the whole planet Earth and its resources, undertaking to protect and advance all life forms.
• Buckminster
• rvice. By abandoning concern about self and focusing upon serving others, he set the self-actualization process into motion. The service motive is the fastest and most reliable path to enlightenment and actualization. The formula is simple, but few have dared to apply it wholeheartedly to their own careers.

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• By "business as usual" I mean the kind of business that is bewitched by what Dr Chris Seeley calls, in The Fool and the Great Turning "the three impossible fantasies": the fantasy of limitless growth; the fantasy that actions can be taken that don't have consequences; and the fantasy that human beings are separate from, and above, the natural world.

• As a historian, I want to trace the origins of women's  economic subservience; as an anthropologist, I want to  grasp what the new gradation reveals about kinship where it  occurs; as a philosopher, I want to clarify what this repetitive  pattern tells us about the axioms of popular wisdom, namely, those  on which the contemporary university and its social sciences  rest.

• The implication of the view is, therefore, that nothing is fundamentally separate or autonomous
• flow is, in some sense, prior to that of the ‘things’ that can be seen to form and dissolve in this flow"
• The new form of insight can perhaps best be called Undivided Wholeness in Flowing Movement.
• the whole is in continuous flux, and hence is referred to as the holomovement (movement of the whole)
• a new kind of theory is needed which drops these basic commitments and at most recovers some essential features of the older theories as abstract forms derived from a deeper reality in which what prevails is unbroken wholeness.

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• True  community does not just arise out of people having feelings for one another
• first, their taking their stand in living mutual relation with a living  Centre, and second, their being in living mutual relation with one another.
• the builder  is the living effective Centre.

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