Dysfunctions
INTELLIGENCE-DEGRADING FACTORS
- Narrow, short-term, over-rationalistic thinking
- Narrow, short-term, over-personalized feeling
- Sloppy jumping to conclusions
- Conformist, in-the-box thinking
- Inability to learn or benefit from challenges
- Unduly limited or biased information; deception
Resolving Patterns
THE CHALLENGE CARDS
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FOLLY-GENERATING FACTORS
- Homogeneity
- Stuck in positions and antagonism
- Neglected, trapped or suppressed life energy
- Little or life-degrading feedback
- Dysfunctional oscillation between extremes
- Alienation, isolation, sense of separateness
- Cynicism, hopelessness, lack of vision
- Shame and blame
- Hubris, presumption
UNSUSTAINABILITY FACTORS
- Nature as only resource or background / not seeing nature as a living community we are part of
- Money the sole measure of value
- Everything exclusively owned; possessiveness
- Social and environmental costs externalized
- Irresponsible short-term self-interest, greed
POWER CORRUPTING FACTORS
- Ubiquitous hierarchical power-over
- Little cooperative, synergistic or spiritual power
- Extreme inequality
- License, corruption, abusive freedom or privilege
- Oppression, surveillance, victimization
- Lack of constraints and oversight
- Punitive “justice”
CULTURAL DYSFUNCTIONS
- Not enough time
- No available gathering spaces
- Fragmentation and polarization
- Hyper-competitive, winner-take-all dynamics
- Hyper-individualism
- Nobody listening
- Pretense, inauthenticity, posturing, deceit
- Intolerance and prejudice
- Carelessness
- Extremes, imbalance
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