Issues for America: An agenda of problems and opportunities

Everything in our complex sociotechnical U.S. ‘system’ is related to everything else. We are severely limited in grasping and treating the total complex system. Any listing involves an artificial separation of parts of the system into ‘issues’. The process is inevitably reductionist and faces the traps of any reductionist treatment. The perceived issues are dependent on the observer, that is, the person or organization undertaking the formulation. It cannot be objective; indeed the formulator is part of the system. This set thus represents a personal world view.