17 There'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. But what if this dizzying array of societal, family and individual “causes” were actually not causes, but effects; the emergent ...
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