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Humanity Thrive! The Systems-Reliability Approach Applied to Human Destiny And Other Things salvatore gerard micheal

The systems-reliability approach is not a formula or set of formulae applied cook-book style to problems – expecting to solve them unthinkingly. It's a flexible guide intended to help solve complex real-world problems of any scale. Engineers have applied it successfully, for years, to design controls for aircraft, automobiles, industrial processes, communication systems, and many more. Those same principles can be, and have been, applied to designing the systems themselves. Why should the human system be any different? Is it immoral to apply the systems approach to humanity? Or is it simple laziness and greed which keep us in “the dark ages” of social evolution? Salvatore (Sam) Micheal was raised to have an inquisitive mind – especially about nature and our place in that grand and delicate ecosystem. That system has been evolving for about three billion years with periodic mass extinctions spread somewhat regularly over the latter part of that immense span. It's probable we are on the verge of another, albeit human induced. It's possible humans may “go out” like a flickering candle in that maelstrom of infinity. But it needn't be so. The systems approach can be our guide to a genuine and lasting utopia – turning that candle into a beacon of prosperity and peace. It's a matter of choice: wallow in despair, waste resources and lives pursuing “false utopias”, or genuinely implement the systems approach. Sam was formally trained in systems science at Michigan State University. This “future education” was an answer to a childhood prayer made in earnest when I was about eight years old. I cannot say that I have a clean heart – after “all these years”, but I will say that I still have an innocent heart – based on a wonder-full perspective – full of joy and eagerness to learn. This book is written for such innocents: read the book, internalize the principles, and make the future. My mother likes to say “everything in balance”. I like to say: be flexibly integral and “try your best”.