Enjoyed reading this, but puzzled by last sentence. Unsure what "Think from the top-down and bottom-up about how to see and describe interconnected aspects of problems..." is suggesting? Doesn't thinking from a starting point of top-down and bottom-up (a hierarchy? why the need for this?, what sort of 'top' is meant?, and a schism, or division) lead to the perpetuation of division? Up till then encouraging us to see and describe how to create synthesis of (inherently partial) views? I may be misunderstaniding, but wonder if an example would help? For example what would thinking from the top-down and bottom-up about how to see and describe interconnected aspects of the growing gap between the rich and the poor, or the over-usage of our planet's non-renewable resources, begin to look like? Does something like "Think from a variety of different starting points about how to see and describe interconnected aspects of problems..." work better? Philralph 18:02, 19 July 2010 (UTC)