摘要 : A few of us lonely voices have long beenwarning (e.g., Wolfensberger, 1994, 1997) that theculture of modernism, as embraced by the UnitedStates and more or less all other Western societies,is not sustainable, and that collapses bo... 展开 A few of us lonely voices have long beenwarning (e.g., Wolfensberger, 1994, 1997) that theculture of modernism, as embraced by the UnitedStates and more or less all other Western societies,is not sustainable, and that collapses both arebound to occur and could be very sudden. Expertson systems theory are well aware that complexsystems in particular can collapse much morequickly and drastically than simple ones and arealso more difficult to restore. The recent economiccrisis is the result of one such unsustainability, andhappened with such startling suddenness that eventhe world’s leading economic experts were taken bysurprise. 收起