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Syntropic World

By Christine McDougall

Syntropic World is building an economy that serves people and nature.

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Beauty of Beginnings - April 27th - The cost of standing for ceasefire

The cost of standing for ceasefire In 1983 I traveled for the first time, to the USA. On my first day, wandering a shopping mall in Orange County, I had the deepest feeling that I was witnessing the modern-day equivalent of the fall of the Roman Empire. Waste, greed, ill health, and huge urban sprawls were hard to stomach. A tone of superiority, founded in ignorance of other nations, permeated the culture, easily represented in something as seemingly innocuous as World Series baseball. (Only...

about 11 hours ago • 2 min read

Novelty is natural design I am a practising generalist, or, as I prefer to say, a comprehensivist. Understanding the whole, the larger systems at play, has been a passion of mine from an early age. I refused, even when it would have been more profitable, to fall into a specialty or dive deep into a niche. It was for this reason my study of applied medical science could not satisfy me for more than a few short years. Yet I recognise that even a comprehensivist ends up with a speciality. The...

1 day ago • 1 min read

Humanity Is when any child, no matter the colour of their skin, the place of their birth, their ableness or lack thereof, is looked upon with a love and care you would hold for your child. Humanity is where the death of any child cuts your heart. Sometimes, the pain is so hard to bear that you must take a break from the endless horror. Humanity is connection to the creatures. Tenderness to our animals. Kindness. We can be broken. We can lash out from our pain. But we cannot deny the pain we...

2 days ago • 1 min read

A buzz in the air A beautiful morning, full moon over water. Sharing the ocean with some of the best surfers in the world, here for a completion on the weekend. Side by side at our coffee shop with the greatest female surfer of all time, a local and one of the most down-to-earth people you could meet. There is a buzz in the air. Student protestors are galvanising around the world, demanding an end to violence and seeking equivalent rights for people to their homes and safety. History...

3 days ago • 1 min read

Accidental, yet precessional Precession is a Principle of Nature taught in the Syntropic Enterprise Masterclass. To every action, there is a reaction at ninety degrees to the direction of the original action. Drop a stone into a pond of water, and the ripples go out at ninety degrees to the stone’s entry into the water. This law is true in all cases on a gravity-bound Earth. There is a ninety-degree precessional effect on every action. What does this mean? We might consider the possible...

4 days ago • 1 min read

Everything lives in a context Context means the container that holds the text. Context is like a series of concentric circles within concentric circles, like a bull’s eye used in archery. The immediate context is held in a context that creates the conditions for that immediate context. To discern, judge, or access a situation, we must also know the context. When a terrible violence happens, we can focus on the terrible violence and make everything that comes after that violence justified,...

5 days ago • 1 min read

Rewilding language Our words create our world. In the beginning, says one famous book, was the word. Humans desire safety, dignity, and relevance. Yet we also need fields of creativity, spaces to be wild without doing harm to others. The language of suppression is a language of maintaining order, providing security, ensuring progress, and a strong economic policy that privileges the few. When this language dominates the narrative, we slowly but surely lose the wild. The polarity swing to...

6 days ago • 1 min read

Building agency Curiosity is often intrinsic to children. When a child is in a risky environment, they might shut down their curiosity. When we are educated in an environment that teaches at, rather than asks us to inquire more, we might begin, slowly, to lose our agency. When the culture thrives on experts, when we relinquish our authority to the expertise of others, we lose our agency. Our ability to ask questions, to figure things out, to be creative when options are limited, are skills to...

7 days ago • 1 min read

Reading the signs As the magician moves her hands, you miss the trick. This is the plan. Your senses are seduced by the magical and miss the important. In the news feed today, many magicians are moving their hands, seducing people into reading the glamour and missing the important. Critical thinking skills, as well as seeing and sensing beyond distractions, are vital. Around the world, protests and debates are being suppressed. Today, Columbia University. Last week, Germany. The forces of...

8 days ago • 1 min read

A trim tab for humanity I am watching the busyness outside. Construction. People. Congestion. Growth. This thing. More of everything. More and more. The word quiet pops into my head. I want quiet. I long for quiet. I can access quiet inside at any time, but that is not what I long for. I wonder about the state of the Earth’s nervous system, of which my nervous system is a fractal. I would imagine that if I were the Earth’s nervous system, I would long for quiet, too. A pause in the push-pull,...

9 days ago • 1 min read
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