multi-layer challenges

  Consider the importance of the 6 different "broken-symmetry" layers of organization in earth's multi-celled life, namely layers that look in (←|) and out (|→) from the boundaries of metazoan-skin (←₁|₂→), gene-pool (←₃|₄→) and idea-pool (←₅|₆→). These suggest that we might look at fitness (←₁), pair bonds (₂→), family (←₃), community (₄→), culture (←₅) & profession (₆→) as separate but key elements of a healthy human world. 

  If so the real challenges that we collectively face, of balanced approaches considering all 6 levels, are much more ambitious than the challenge associated with any one of the issues normally covered in the news. Hence to examine the balance of any given argument, we might want to look at its impact on all of these layers.

  For instance, does a law which prevents a raped 10 year old from getting an abortion serve all 6 layers well, or does it serve a mainly cultural mandate (←₅) but help replicate the gene-pool (←₃) of rapists (₂→) while boosting the population of uncared for children (₄→), at the same time promoting governmental infringement of an innocent 10 year old's personal space (←₁)? If this law is not well balanced, then it may help lead toward the decline (rather than the bloom) of layered complexity, especially if our planet is having trouble providing all 6-layers of opportunity to the folks already here (₆→). 

  What other "news issues" might be put into an integrative context like this?

joy-sparking as tool

In the spirit of the phrase used by Marie Kondo, what sparks joy for you? Also, what are some ways that folks might redirect what sparks joy for them to include helping spark the joy of others?

finding what works

If you are serious about any particular problem, ranging from how to fix a dripping faucet or a broken electrical circuit to making gerrymanders constructive, minimizing abortions, or reducing gun deaths, consider adopting a scout (versus soldier) mindset and embark on the cycle: Observe → selectModel → predictOptions → Implement → Observe....

This "V↔S" cycle (vary then select then vary etc.) is not only how (for example) science works (although it often also gets bogged down in doctrine), but also how life on earth has always worked. In other words it's part of perhaps our oldest constitution, namely that on the basis of which life itself continues to adapt and survive.

In this context how may we get media to focus on problems that folks could agree to collaborate on solving, using model strategies and data-based observations that can track progress and thereby lead to making things better? For instance folks on both local and global scales might agree to work toward: (i) fewer gun deaths, (ii) fewer abortions, (iii) fewer COVID infections, (iv) constructive redistricting, (v) community-oriented policing, (vi) minimizing unconstructive use of tax dollars, (v) a healthier middle class, etc.