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pouring one out for the systems thinkers who can see the abyss and have to live with the darkness

i mean you can see the potential for change but you can also see the vast darkness and that you may not see substantive change within your lifetime being able to comprehend even slightly a complexity that you barely have the ability to affect

so much about systems change has to align for things to change on anything other than a decades+ timescale but for crisis events (and even in crisis events it's even odds on two steps forward, three steps back), so much is about luck and yet

like has anyone studied exactly how much lines up to produce systemic change because I'm pretty sure if you wrote it all out there *would* be the equivalent of "and then some fucking eagles turned up" only eagles are people doing regular people things but fuck me. eagles.

imagine carrying around fucking icebergs the entire time like yes you also have your (helpful) stock and flow diagrams but then you add PEOPLE to them ugh donellameadows.org/systems-thin...

btw this explains why systems change relies upon people which duh