17There's Only One Problem

“When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.”

R. Buckminster Fuller

Designer and inventor

“Behind the London riots a multitude of causes…”

The Euronews headline from August 9, 2011, attempted to make sense of the riots that had started that week in London (sparked by the tragic shooting of Mark Duggan by police marksmen), then spread to other cities in the UK. The “causes” identified in the days that followed ranged from poor parenting and gang culture to budget cuts, social media and consumerism.

In response to the litany of causes came a variety of proposed solutions. Then British Prime Minister, David Cameron, promised ...

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