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R L Higgins

R L Higgins

Prof. R. L. Higgins, M.A. (Rutgers) Structural Systems Analysis (SSA): Cognitive and Concrete Theory Studies for a Creative New World

What Survived?

Oct 12, 2026
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Systems produce outcomes that nobody wants due to their architecture of incentives, constraints, capacity, and feedback remains unchanged despite change in leadership and moral commitments.

WHAT SURVIVED?

They changed the boss
They changed the crew
Changed what everybody
Swore they'd do

New promises
New grand design
Same old outcome
Every time

What survived?
What survived?
Everybody changed
Same thing arrives

Hero becomes villain
Villain becomes hero
Structure stays the same
Judgment flips

What survived?
What survived?

Move the pressure
Change the cost
Lift the limit
Open the path

Now the outcome
Changes too
THERE'S YOUR CLUE!

What survived?
What survived?

If nobody wants it
But it still arrives
Everybody changed
Something survived

What survived?
What survived?
Everybody changed
Something survived
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R L Higgins
R L Higgins

Written by R L Higgins

Prof. R. L. Higgins, M.A. (Rutgers) Structural Systems Analysis (SSA): Cognitive and Concrete Theory Studies for a Creative New World