Onward. Upward.
You Don’t Transform The Old By Opposing It, You Transform It By Making It Obsolete
Superior ideas, dreams, and visions inevitably supplant what no longer works—we are at that pivotal moment
The headline above is a quote from Buckminster Fuller, the American inventor, philosopher, and futurist. He understood that when the old isn't working anymore, when it fails to deliver us to where we are yearning to go, it must be replaced.
The chaos we’re seeing worldwide, a period of disorder, deep disturbance, and lawlessness, could be construed as a coming Armageddon. But I think not. I think we’re experiencing the end of a 12,000 year patriarchy that is no longer supporting and assisting mankind in moving forward. And because this system and its leaders (largely old, white men) are stopping or stalling us from making progress, we must bless them for their efforts and say goodbye.
Two of my past Medium posts, Twelve Thousand Year Patriarchy Ends and That Kicking And Screaming You Hear make this point more forcefully, but the conclusion remains the same: the old must go, the rusty and rotting reinvented, and a potent, energizing propellent for progress must be ignited.
