Bulldozer00's Blog

As the accumulation of knowledge in a disciplinary domain advances, the knowledge base naturally starts fragmenting into sub-disciplines and turf battles break out all over: “my sub-discipline is more reflective of reality than yours, damn it!“.

In a bit of irony, the systems thinking discipline, which is all about holism, has followed the well worn yellow brick road that leads to frag city. For example, compare the disparate structures of two (terrific) books on systems thinking:

Thank Allah there is at least some overlap, but alas, it’s a natural law: with growth, comes a commensurate increase in complexity. Welcome to frag city…