Right Wing

[aims]

We all have a right to our own opinion
and here is mine:
Right wing
is wrong wing!

[phantasm]

I think there's a more-or-less "simple" answer to why the country is where it is. It's stress. Plain, simple stress. Everyone is stressed.
We're politically polarized because it's easier to buy into a political faction, any political faction. It's one less thing
you have to think about. Urgent problems take up a lot of bandwidth in your head. Stress begets the desire for simple solutions........

But the problems we're all facing are only becoming more complex as time goes by.

[aims]

I don't know why but your comments made me think about a group on facebook that is local to me it's called Cape Fear Going Green and they have an environmental book club that I may get the book they are discussing on october 2nd it's called: "Thinking in Systems: A Primer" by Donella H. Meadows here is the description of the book on Amazon:

Thinking in Systems, is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem solving on scales ranging from the personal to the global. Edited by the Sustainability Institute’s Diana Wright, this essential primer brings systems thinking out of the realm of computers and equations and into the tangible world, showing readers how to develop the systems-thinking skills that thought leaders across the globe consider critical for 21st-century life.



Some of the biggest problems facing the world—war, hunger, poverty, and environmental degradation—are essentially system failures. They cannot be solved by fixing one piece in isolation from the others, because even seemingly minor details have enormous power to undermine the best efforts of too-narrow thinking.



While readers will learn the conceptual tools and methods of systems thinking, the heart of the book is grander than methodology. Donella Meadows was known as much for nurturing positive outcomes as she was for delving into the science behind global dilemmas. She reminds readers to pay attention to what is important, not just what is quantifiable, to stay humble, and to stay a learner.



In a world growing ever more complicated, crowded, and interdependent, Thinking in Systems helps readers avoid confusion and helplessness, the first step toward finding proactive and effective solutions.


I think it will be interesting and if I go to the book club it might be something I will enjoy.

[phantasm]

That book is in my wish list on Amazon.com now.