Waiting for Gödel all over again.

Dear Colleagues on both sides of the desk,

Most enduring structures (in nature,
society, the human psyche) are resistant
to fundamental change,  by which I mean
change that alters the givens of those
structures themselves.

It’s almost a matter of logic: no self-
contained world can induce its own
fundamental change, because self-
containment means it knows nothing
 beyond its own givens. In such cases,
accidents are useful indeed.”

  (Hyde. Trickster Makes this World, 116)

Variation on Goedel's Theorem?
Mathematics colleagues,  Evan, Holly,
Gretchen:  I'm asking.  

I may have already quoted this. It speaks to
whether a system (person, marriage, family,
community) can change itself, or whether its
naturally built to SUSTAIN its structures,
habits, habitats, rites, rituals, cultures, customs,
conventions: status quo inertia rules: sustaining
sustainability sustainably.
 
We celebrate SUSTAINABILITY here and
elsewhere.  What are we  sustaining? Einstein
said “we can’t solve problems by using the same
kind of thinking we used when we  created them.”
 
Do we know any other kind? 

Sustain or re-configure, reformat, recalibrate? 
Think out of the box?  Impossible!

Knowing  and agreeing that it’s impossible to
think out of the box! THAT would be thinking
out of the box!..

My aims, goals, immeasurable outcomes are
unsustainable. Impossible. Knowing that
is prerequisite to possibility.  Need we argue?
Beg to differ? With all due respect?.

xxxooo, Sam