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Cooperation

Cooperation is behavior designed to help the group, which in turn helps group members.

Ahhhhh, what a difference between this definition and the one for competition, which is, "Behavior designed to gain advantage over other agents." Both can achieve goals. Once true cooperative skills are acquired cooperation can be more efficient than competition, because everyone is paddling in the same direction for the life of the canoe.

This ideal goes against conventional wisdom, which believes healthy competition is the most efficient mode. Some point to the failure of communism as proof. Well, that proved communism was a failure, not cooperation. But competition is so culturally ingrained that it will take a long time, or an astounding crisis like the one we're in now, to change that mind set.

Cooperation benefits the group, competition benefits the individual gene or meme. Once we become a global family of cooperators, this may lead to jokes like "Your jeans are showing again."

 

Dueling Loops Paper

The most popular page on the site. This paper presents a simple model showing why activists have been unable to solve the sustainability problem, and an alternative solution strategy based on high leverage points.

A Little Story about Corporate Dominance and the Occupy Movement

Here's what one reader wrote us about this article:

"This is the most lucid, focused, analysis of the economic quandary of the nation that I have seen. It exposes the indisputable root cause of the widening gap between the goals of people and the goals of for-profit corporations, and demonstrates how those respective goals are mutually exclusive. It does not condemn corporations but offers a solution for refocusing them toward the general goals of people. I urge each member to go over this analysis - it is not long or boring - and challenge it if you think you can."

Change Resistance Paper

This explains why the crux of the sustainability problem is change resistance, rather than what conventional wisdom thinks it is. That's why the problem has remained unsolved for over 30 years. The paper describes a high leverage point that's never been pushed on before that can solve the change resistance problem.

Common Property Rights

This book summarizes all the work at Thwink.org. This includes the System Improvement Process, a rigorous analysis of the complete sustainability problem, and 12 sample solution elements.

The Powell Memo

The most eye popping short read (7 pages) on the site, if you have never heard about it. The memo was written in 1971.

Dueling Loops Videos

These average 8 minutes. They give a quick introduction to the Dueling Loops model and how it explains the tremendous change resistance to solving the sustainability problem.
 

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