By Bill Veltrop, Monterey Institute for Social Architecture (MISA). We inhabit one of the most blessed regions on our planet — and yet we share many of the same problems (poverty, violence, pollution, environmental degradation, illiteracy, unemployment, homelessness, divisiveness, teen pregnancies and more) of less endowed regions.

These pervasive problems are a natural consequence of archaic social architecture — social systems that share three fundamental design flaws:
1) Narrow and myopic definitions of success
2) Design based on control over people
3) Lack of capacity to re-invent the systems we inhabit

The Good News: These pervasive design flaws are man-made — literally. We can reverse these flaws and open ourselves to an almost unimaginably wondrous future — for this region and beyond.