{"id":258,"date":"2017-10-10T04:51:21","date_gmt":"2017-10-10T04:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/honr392a\/?p=258"},"modified":"2017-10-16T22:42:01","modified_gmt":"2017-10-16T22:42:01","slug":"making-sense-of-leverage-points-places-to-intervene-in-a-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/honr392a\/2017\/10\/10\/making-sense-of-leverage-points-places-to-intervene-in-a-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Sense of “Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Out of all the readings, class discussions, and media I\u2019ve covered so far for this class I was by far the most taken aback by Donella Meadows\u2019s piece, <\/span>Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System<\/em>. Reading this piece turned into such a delight for me, a rare experience where just reading her writing made me fully aware of how gifted and intelligent she must have been. I\u2019ve felt that the course has presented me with some pretty challenging concepts to approach so far, but throughout the beginning of her piece I was as lost as ever. I didn\u2019t know what she was really getting at and I admittedly grew a bit cynical of the notion that she had this great understanding of how the world worked. (I would realize later that she has said in this article that the system was too complex to be boiled down into a recipe for making change in the world. (my bad)). By the end of it, I found myself questioning the way I think AND trying to figure out how I even stumbled upon the system I had been living within. It\u2019s pretty far out stuff.<\/span><\/p>\n

My whole life I\u2019ve subscribed to the belief that growth is good, and while Meadows points out the flaws with that idea, I still don\u2019t feel ready to abandon it. Growth means so\u00a0<\/span>much to too many people for me to say that it\u2019s wrong. There\u2019s probably a better, more efficient way to achieve happiness for the people that need growth the most. Though, it\u2019s been difficult for me to create a new solution after I\u2019ve lived my whole life thinking I had already known the answer.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Out of all the readings, class discussions, and media I\u2019ve covered so far for this class I was by far the most taken aback by Donella Meadows\u2019s piece, Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System. Reading this piece turned into such a delight for me, a rare experience where just reading her writing made me fully aware of how… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[4,20,22],"class_list":["post-258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-week-2","tag-agency","tag-power","tag-systemstheory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/honr392a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/honr392a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/honr392a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/honr392a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/honr392a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/honr392a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":262,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/honr392a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions\/262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/honr392a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/honr392a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/honr392a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}