You can never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
Buckminster Fuller: American anticipatory design architect,
systems theorist, designer, inventor,
philosopher, futurist and author of
Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth
and Critical Path
“This quote reminds me that trying to fix things just causes the existing reality to persist. If I liked the reality and I just want to improve it, that’s okay. However, if humanity and life as we know it on the planet is going extinct, then, I want a whole different future. Therefore, I need to invent a new reality, a new model—not make the old one wrong. Then I’ll need to enroll people in that. So, we can honor the old reality as the shoulders on which we are standing while we create a wholly different future.”
Peter Fiekowsky, physicist, and author (co-author Carole Douglis)
of Climate Restoration: The Only Future
That Will Sustain the Human Race
