Dueling Loops

Dueling loops is the nickname for The Dueling Loops of the Political Powerplace. This is a fundamental social structure that appears to lie at the heart of why environmentalists have been stymied by the opposition for so long. If the hypothesis that this structure exists is correct, and the high leverage points identified are also correct, then we are about 80% of the way towards solving the problem. This is because in complex social system problems, arriving at a correct analysis is the hard part. For more see the Dueling Loops example of structure and the Dueling Loops paper.

The diagram to the right is a simulation model from the Dueling Loops paper. Notice the simplicity of the structure. The race to the bottom and race to the top loops are almost perfectly symetrical. The low leverage point that the environmental movement is presently pushing on is the true memes node in the lower right of the model, also known as more of the truth.

Pushing on this point will not work because the opposition can push much harder with the same amount of effort by inflating the size of the false memes with deception. This is shown in the upper right of the model. Once this proposition is understood, it is only natural to assume that problem solvers will start looking around for higher leverage points to push on. For how to go about doing that, please see the Dueling Loops paper and the entire Thwink.org site.