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Hi there. I was led to your article by the election of Donald Trump, which came as no surprise to me although it did apparently surprise quite a lot of people. (I voted for Jill Stein.) As I was musing about both parties’ sense of emergency (what we have to attend to RIGHT NOW or else!) rather than urgency (what we MUST do now to create what we want in the FUTURE), I thought about David Didau’s article, The Purpose of a System is What It Does.

You will, I imagine, recognize POSIWID as being the output of Stafford Beer, who I had never heard of and didn’t bother to find out about when I first read the article.

Didau is an educator, so that’s his primary focus for the concept. I have a very small (6 person) group that has been meeting for several years to consider the possibility of transforming the world. That’s what we named ourselves: Transform the World. We are currently pursuing the provisional notion that a transformed world would mean a world in which everyone had the freedom to flourish. At the moment, we’re just beginning to get granular with it, identifying categories and parameters and figuring out how to determine what state anything is in: anti-flourishing, pre-flourishing, flourishing, or post-flourishing. If nothing else, it’s a conceptualization exercise.

So I am thrilled to have come across your article because the intersection of Beers and his ideas with both life-as- it-is and the possibility for change is very juicy. Succulent even.

You’re a very good writer. My knowledge in your areas of specialization is limited, so it will be a bit of a challenge to keep up, but I look forward to reading more from you. Thanks so much for this excellent article!

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You really should check... quoting from evegenys project is an error. I'm bored with correcting his work. But you are a professional writer - check staffords entry in Who's Who for his allegedly aristocratic antecedents and his death certificate for his ending, in Toronto.

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Hello!

Thanks for commenting and I hope you enjoyed the piece. Do you happen to have links to either of those sources? I'd love to update them.

I apologize for not doing so before...this was about as much background research as I could do for a blog post, and I may have made some interpolations based on what I'd read.

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