Emerging a Life-Centered Worldview
Thinking about system transformation is complicated—doing it even more so. System change can occur abruptly when some tipping point is reached and, like natural systems, the system suddenly undergoes a state change—or transformation. Anthropologist Jared Diamond calls such sudden changes in human systems collapse in a book by that title,1 while author Malcolm Gladwell calls them tipping points, suggesting that small changes in systems can make a big difference.2 Both of these ideas draw from chaos theory3 in noting that when systems are at what chaos theorists call the edge of chaos change can happen suddenly. The global response to the Covid-19 pandemic certainly demonstrated that type of state change. ...
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