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   Dr. Elizabeth Sawin✨ (bethsawin@spore.social)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 14:52:20 JST Dr. Elizabeth Sawin✨

   Watching media and tech shift so quickly from what they thought they needed to be to fit their customers' desires to a form aligned with the organizing principles of the incoming administration is actually a good example of the power of the systems principle of "coherence." A 🧵

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     Dr. Elizabeth Sawin✨ (bethsawin@spore.social)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 14:52:33 JST Dr. Elizabeth Sawin✨

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     Coherence is when all parts of a system are operating under similar organizing principles. Those big players have been incoherent for a while.

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     Dr. Elizabeth Sawin✨ (bethsawin@spore.social)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 14:52:48 JST Dr. Elizabeth Sawin✨

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     There have been the (often hidden) habits of domination & supremacy (think about the #metoo scandals in news outlets) alongside outward expression of a more egalitarian ethic. That mixture is incoherence.

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     Dr. Elizabeth Sawin✨ (bethsawin@spore.social)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 14:52:58 JST Dr. Elizabeth Sawin✨

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     These rapid shifts are producing more coherence. You can see just how fast that process works. The pattern was there, ready to be more fully embodied. That's good to know, because coherence can be to anything. To justice, to care, to interconnection as easily as to domination.

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     Dr. Elizabeth Sawin✨ (bethsawin@spore.social)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 14:53:10 JST Dr. Elizabeth Sawin✨

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     The thing to notice is how the process works..because nothing is over and the current trajectory is colliding with earth system limits and so more chaos, transformation, and openings are coming even if we don't know what they are yet.

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     Dr. Elizabeth Sawin✨ (bethsawin@spore.social)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 14:53:33 JST Dr. Elizabeth Sawin✨

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     What are the implications? I think the main one is to keep going. To keep embodying an ethic that could work for the whole world, as best you can see and understand what that is.

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     Dr. Elizabeth Sawin✨ (bethsawin@spore.social)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 14:53:37 JST Dr. Elizabeth Sawin✨

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     Because those patterns you embody, even if they are small, or hidden, can be templates that systems can snap to in the future, in different times, under different conditions.