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Elena Schälike

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Elena Schälike is an economist, educator and systems thinker.

She has a lifelong habit of questioning even established systems rather than simply accepting them.

Just because the majority holds an opinion does not make it right.

Her systems thinking is based on a fundamental principle she formulated: the Triad Axiom:

Any reality can be fully described by three irreducible categories:
matter, form and change.

For biological systems, she developed NBIOS – a model describing how an organism responds to its environment. Distinct input channels operate in parallel on BIOS, which produces the observable output.

In humans, that output can take many forms.

In her book How to Fatten a Pig – and a Human: In Five Easy Steps , it is particularly easy t ...more

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A World Turned Upside Down, and a Story Worth Reading Again I've always loved Robert Merle's writing, and The Virility Factor is another of his novels that has stayed with me for decades. The premise is wonderfully unusual: an epidemic threatens the ma ...more
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A remarkable idea, but not a captivating read for me I actually read 1984 in 1984. It was a birthday present, handed to me discreetly, under the table, in East Germany (the GDR), where it was a forbidden book. So, as you can imagine, reading Orwell's ...more
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One of the most profoundly influential books I have ever read. I first read Death Is My Trade by Robert Merle when I was about sixteen or seventeen years old. I have reread it several times since, and few books have left such a lasting impression on m ...more
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“We create the environment and then blame the human for responding to it.”
― Elena Schälike, How to Fatten a Pig – and a Human: In Five Easy Steps

tags: behaviour, environment, obesity, personal-responsibility, society, systems-thinking

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“Al cerdo nunca se le culpa. Nadie se planta ante la pocilga gritando: '¿Has pensado en asumir tu responsabilidad?”
― Elena Schälike, Cómo engordar a un cerdo – y a un humano: En cinco sencillos pasos: Una sátira negra e incómodamente lógica

tags: crítica-social, frases-divertidas, humor-negro, responsabilidad-personal, sátira

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“Personne n’accuse le cochon. Personne ne se tient devant un enclos à cochons en criant: « As-tu envisagé d'assumer tes responsabilités ?”
― Elena Schälike, Comment engraisser un cochon - et un humain: en cinq étapes simples

tags: critique-sociale, humour-noir, obésité, responsabilité-individuelle, satire

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“We create the environment and then blame the human for responding to it.”
― Elena Schälike, How to Fatten a Pig – and a Human: In Five Easy Steps

tags: behaviour, environment, obesity, personal-responsibility, society, systems-thinking

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“We built a world in which gaining weight became easy and then created an enormous industry teaching people how to resist it.”
― Elena Schälike, How to Fatten a Pig – and a Human: In Five Easy Steps

tags: consumer-society, diet-industry, health, obesity, satire, systems-thinking

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“If millions of people are producing the same undesirable output, it is not enough to treat millions of individuals. We must examine which mechanisms within the system are producing this erroneous output.”
― Elena Schälike, How to Fatten a Pig – and a Human: In Five Easy Steps

tags: obesity, prevention, public-health, society, system-failure, systems-thinking

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“A flawed system reliably produces flawed results. Anyone who wants to correct the output must correct the system.”
― Elena Schälike, How to Fatten a Pig – and a Human: In Five Easy Steps

tags: cause-and-effect, nbios, philosophy, society, system-change, systems-thinking

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“The pig is never blamed. Nobody stands outside a pig enclosure shouting: 'Have you considered taking personal responsibility?”
― Elena Schälike, How to Fatten a Pig – and a Human: In Five Easy Steps

tags: dark-humor, funny-quotes, personal-responsibility, satire, social-critique-humor

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