To the editor:
Howard Lieberman’s January 26 article “Innovation begins when disruption goes too far” provides an interesting and provocative perspective while giving some optimism for the future. Two words representing opposite forces determine the probably of extinction in the broadest sense—that is, extinction of a business (bankruptcy), a political system, a social state, or a species. The words are complacency and adaptation. The former leads to extinction (i.e., Lieberman’s destabilization), while the latter avoids it. Lieberman gives examples of forces (termed “selective pressure” in biology) in politics that will hopefully lead to systemic institutional adaptation in our near-term future and give us hope for a more civil and civilized state of well-being and prosperity for all. Lieberman’s article should be shared widely and distributed to national media outlets.
Steven Averbuch, M.D.
Stockbridge
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