Excellent discussion of Adam Curtis's All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (I covered the series in three parts: Part One, Part Two, Part Three). David Jennings picks up on two strands of Curtis's argument: first, on whether ecosystems are stable, and second, whether systems thinking ignores power (and in particular, individual empowerment). We need not agree with Curtis on these two points (and Jennings doesn't) but the crux still remains: "we need the conceptual means to step outside the system in order to change the system." Of course, this is a problem that exists as much in traditional hierarchies as it does in ecosystems and networks.
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