Three Laws of Systemics
Posted: November 19, 2004 Filed under: Centroids Comments Off on Three Laws of Systemics
My mission
statement promotes becoming healthy, happy, and holy. Its meaning
should be reasonably obvious when applied to individuals and community, but I
also assert that goal for systems, which is perhaps somewhat unusual. I started
using the word systemics to describe this attitude of looking
at systemic problems, and as usual discovered someone else thought of it first
— in this case, fifty years ago, which gave birth to the International Society for the
Systems Sciences, custodians of a genuine scientific discipline that
has arguably has fallen off its
prime.
statement promotes becoming healthy, happy, and holy. Its meaning
should be reasonably obvious when applied to individuals and community, but I
also assert that goal for systems, which is perhaps somewhat unusual. I started
using the word systemics to describe this attitude of looking
at systemic problems, and as usual discovered someone else thought of it first
— in this case, fifty years ago, which gave birth to the International Society for the
Systems Sciences, custodians of a genuine scientific discipline that
has arguably has fallen off its
prime.
I hope to eventually connect
with them and see where they’re going, but first I want to try to formulate my
philosophy in systemic terms in the hopes of finding common ground. Here, with a
nod to Isaac Asimov , are my Three Laws of
Systemics:
1. Happy systems
fulfill
their purposes (cf. Matthew
6:33)
2. Healthy
systems align
with their purposes
(cf. Matthew
22:37)
3. Holy
systems
achieve
their purposes by others achieving theirs (cf.
Matthew
22:39)
While I haven’t done
an exhaustive inquiry, these seem to fit what I know of the human body,
organizational theory, and computer software.
Radical Centrism 