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The Dueling Loops Videos List

These videos are the visual version of the Dueling Loops paper. They cover the Dueling Loops model, how it works, and what it implies. Start with the first one.

1. Overview of the Dueling Loops, 11 minutes

Part One: Basic Concepts
2. The Discovery of the Sustainability Problem by the LTG Project, 6 min
3. The Basic Concept of Feedback Loops, with Pop Growth, 9 min
4. How Simulation Models Work, with Pop Growth, 10 min
5. The Importance of Structural Thinking, 3 types, 8 min

Part Two: Deriving the Basic DL Shape from Past System Behavior
6. What Jared Diamond’s Collapse Book Attempted to Do, 6 min
7. Extracting the Competitive Spiral from Collapse, 8 min
8. The Two Fundamental Opposed Loops of All Political Systems, 5 min
9. The Four Loop Model of Why Some Societies Collapsed, 7 min
10. The Basic Dueling Loops Shape, 15 min

Part Three: How the Basic DL Simulation Model Works
11. The Race to the Bottom Simulation Model, 6 min
12. The Five Main Types of Political Deception, 18 min

 

NOTE - The rest of this series was originally planned to include the following additional videos. However, this project has been replaced by the full length film project.

13. The Race to the Top, added from scratch
14. Classic Activism as the Main Traditional Way to Push on the Truth Node

Part Four: The Key Insights of the DL Structure
15. The Inherent Advantage of the Race to the Bottom, added
16. Due to this inherent advantage, the RTB is easily exploited, w examples
17. The current exploiter is the New Dominant Life Form
18. The High Leverage Point of Ability to Detect Pol. Deception, added
19. The Cyclic Nature of the Dueling Loops, don’t show add, just graphs

20. Summary and Conclusions (ideas listed, not separate videos)
   - List assumptions for basic shape.
   - If true, then all the insights are probably true.
   - List insights, possibly with memorable thumbnail for each
   - End with: Does the DL structure exist?
   - If so, how can we best push on the HLP?

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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