“It is easy to inadvertently pursue *translational* change as if it were *transformational*… to fall prey to the overwhelming power of pre-existing, dominant contexts, ideologies, and energy patterns”

“No longer is history something that we just read about decades hence, we can actively picture our role in the evolutionary stream of events and take responsibility for our small part in it right now. To do so, we need to better understand the Transformational Thesis” —@robbsmith

“In most real-world, large-scale wicked environments, there are no silver bullets, no one single TT that overpowers the mass of competing forces, incentives, consciousness, etc. that is creating the wicked context to begin with.”

“Silver bullets mostly only exist wherever simple, dominant (i.e., superholonic) *power relations* exist: by definition, the power function of a superholon is measured by the quality of being able to change the sub-holons included within its developmental or ecological holarchy.”

“But superholons are already relatively good at identifying and attempting to change what is in their control, and so any problem today that needs a TT is still a problem precisely because it’s an enduring context beyond the simple dominance of an existing superholon.”

“The wicked environment of climate change is embedded in the human-civilizational superholon, and yet that superholon has no simple, overriding power function that can force compliance by millions of psychological, political, economic, cultural, ethnic, national etc. sub-holons”

“We need to understand the full, integral evolutionary stack of the climate change context, and then a broad portfolio of TTs could be developed to intervene at hypothetical transformational fulcrums.”