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The Powell Memo

The Powell Memo PDF - This is a stunning and educational 7 page extract from the Analytical Activism manuscript.

The Powell Memo was the precipitating event for the swift rise and astounding success of neo conservatism in the United States, starting in the early 1970s. The memo presented a bold strategy for taking over the key portions of the system, without the other side knowing what was happening. Unless they have read the memo, they still don't.

After you have read the memo and the running commentary, perhaps you will agree on these points:

1. We have a formidable opponent.

2. Simple solutions are not going to work.

3. Changing just a few environmental organizations will not work. The movement as a whole must be transformed and unified, just as the corporate proxy movement was transformed and unified, if we are to have any rational hope of pushing as hard as we need to on the correct high leverage points.

Here's a long article about the Powell Memo. It was devastatingly effective. (A special thanks to Gordon Draves for this link.)

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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