The hardest part in all of this is realizing we can't get out of this mess using the hierarchical then mechanistic thinking of the industrial age (and earlier) that got us into this mess. The middle-class historically was the people in town, not living in or working the countryside. It's perhaps back in that countryside where we need to look for a different approaches.

Yes, "We have to do it together, using new frameworks and models for the network era." It's just problematic when so many people think of networks, they think of social nets rather than spider webs and ant hills, bee hives and forests.

My hope is that as we face these challenges, together, we don't divert our attention because there are no templates or rule book (oh, so mechanistic). Rather we look at the incredible inspiration, models, and dare-I-say-frameworks in your own back yards.