We are living in a civilization suffering from metabolic debt that is caused by a system violating subsidiarity in pursuit of a noble goal.
Metabolic Debt: How Civilization Traded Starvation for Fragility
Category: Complex Systems
The Order of Truth: Why Subject Comes Before Object
How truth depends on the subject coming before the object — meaning before measurement.
How Admiration Sustains the World and Adoration Renews It
We often treat admiration and adoration as the same, but they are not. Admiration refines what exists through responsibility; adoration renews what is still becoming through love. When we confuse them, both relationships and systems begin to fracture. But when they are rightly ordered, love becomes whole, sustaining both structure and spirit across creation
Christian Nationalism, Secularism, and the Hierarchy of Responsibility
Why society works like a complex system—and how Catholic Social Teaching keeps its responsibilities in balance.
Why Patriotism Fades When Ownership Disappears
Catholic Social Teaching, psychology research, and complex systems all point to the same truth: love of country depends on widespread ownership and responsibility.
Minnesota’s Environmental Amendment: Harming the System with Good Intentions
During the 2024 election, Minnesotans voted on a state constitutional amendment called the Minnesota Continue to Provide Lottery Revenue to Environment and Natural Resources Fund Amendment. Its purpose is to extend the dedication of at least 40 percent of state lottery proceeds to the Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund through December 31, 2050. The … Continue reading Minnesota’s Environmental Amendment: Harming the System with Good Intentions
Entropy & Modularity: Gender in Complex Systems
Gender within complex systems embody two spirits: the masculine spirit of taking on responsibility of consuming and provisioning within a system and the feminine spirit which has the responsibility of nurturing new modules to be replacements within a system to overcome entropy.
Meekness to Liberal Arts: Generics in Complex Systems
Generics is a module in a system that is highly versatile and can provide in many unforeseeable ways that are valid to its responsibility.
Know Your Freedoms: Responsibility in Complex Systems
Every module within a complex system has to have a responsibility. In order to fulfill its responsibility, the module needs to have the freedom to fulfill it. These freedoms are scoped to what is needed to accomplish its responsibility.
Debt in Complex Systems
Debt is a process of consuming resources (sacrifices) from a system that hinders the system from fulfilling its responsibilities. If not removed, the debt will lead to the destruction of the system.
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