Thanks for posting this very informative v’log. I was never able to climb the heights of the complex sciences in the manner that you were able to, but I can identify with the need to understand complex human behavioral systems and the forces that shape them either out of necessity or utilitarian purpose.

I often feel that as a practitioner within our electoral system I am trapped or left with little recourse, but to use the same old, stale approaches to voter/civic engagement. However, instinctively I know that the solutions to the complex issues and challenges that we face are systemic. They are the by-product of a wrapped social fabric which reduces human-beings to mere performance units we politely refer to as voters.

I’ve reached the point that even when I win a progressive campaign (as I just did) I feel dirty – I feel as though I perpetuated a fraud on unsuspecting people who long for real change and social justice.

So there is my challenge: How we translate an intuitive or empirical understanding of the complex structures and forces that shape them into end-user or consumer friendly ideas that will germinate, take root, and eventually bear fruit?

Joe, I’m sick and tired or being sick and tired. Thanks for the insight and I hope that you will continue to shed more light on this subject.

I may not be able to explain it with the elegance of physicist or a neural-linguist, but I still remember Carl Sagan’s sage advice, “Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.” – I can’t put my finger on it, but I know that something is very wrong with our socio-political system.

Thanks for your continued work.

- rafa