Acknowledgements Grateful acknowledgement is given to the Random House Group Limited for permission to use the extract from An Evil Cradling by Brian Keenan, published by Hutchinson. My greatest acknowledgements are to people who have inspired me to think again: to learn and unlearn as this book says we all must. Some of these people are friends, some are people I have met in conversations along the way, some have come to me in their books. If I had a select bibliography that has influenced the writing of this book it would be: Empire, Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri (2000) Harvard University Press. Synchronicity, Joseph Jaworski (1996) Berrett-Koehler, San Francisco. States of Grace, Charlene Spretnak (1993) Harper Collins. SQ; Spiritual Intelligence, Danah Zohar and Ian Marshall (2000) Bloomsbury, London. The Saturated Self, Kenneth J. Gergen (1991) Basic Books, New York. The Emperor’s Nightingale, Robert Monks (1998) Perseus, UK. Cities For A Small Planet, Richard Rogers and Philip Gumuchdjian (1997) Faber and Faber, London. Country of my Skull, Antje Krog (1998) Cape. Emergence, Steven Johnson (2001) Penguin, London. Globalisation And Its Discontents, Joseph Stiglitz (2002) Allen Lane, London. Conceptual Foundations For Multi-Disciplinary Thinking, Steven Jay Kline (1995) Stanford University Press. 130 Raising a Ladder to the Moon From my wife I learn every day. Louise, a community social worker, returns every day with individual’s stories and her frustrations with the inadequacies of public policy and social services in the world’s fourth largest economy to deal with the most fundamental issues. From my teenage daughters, Sophie and Cleo, I hear about peer pressure and the demands of the consumer economy. They manage to stand straight and be proud of who they are. Thanks also to Steve Kitson, a post-trauma surgeon, who has talked me through the intricacies of the brain; to Mark Moody-Stuart for time to talk; to Andrew Grant for showing me sun and weather maps as a guide for social spaces – and cities; to Catherine Lumley, a palliative counsellor based in a hospital in Sydney, for trying to put humanity into medicine; to Mark Swilling and Eve Anneke for show- ing me whales, South Africa, patience, perseverance and transformation and to Franklin Adams who showed me round Khayolistsha township; to Rob McClaughlin for building boats; to Ruth Thomas, Gill Coleman and Deborah Leipziger for kindness in the face of adversity; to John Bening- ton for being straight and supportive. And to Alan Feest for showing me slime mould and finding time to cast an ecologist’s eye over the text. I thank my publisher at Palgrave, Stephen Rutt, for his infinite patience. I have met many people with real power over the last 30 years in my work as a researcher, writer and producer of books and films for universi- ties and television as well as in a previous career in business and manage- ment. They include senior government ministers and public servants around the world, as well as civil society activists and business people. Three things differentiate the powerful from the rest: they can focus and they work harder – and they all crave power. You have to want it to get it, and those that get it are not necessarily the best leaders, managers or human beings. I have met very, very few powerful people whom I felt I trusted with my soul. I have met ordinary people that I have trusted with my heart and soul. Trust not our largest organisations, because as complex adaptive systems they are designed, like slime mould, to survive against the odds. Malcolm McIntosh Bath, England January 2003 Notes 1. McIntosh, M. and Thomas, R. 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