ReBirth Brass Band, Let's Go Get 'Em

 

"Finally, and perhaps most counterintuitively, resilience also does not always equate with the recovery of a system to its initial state. While some resilient systems may indeed return to a baseline state after a breach or a radical shift in their environment, they need not necessarily ever do so. In their purest expression, resilient systems may have no baseline to return to- they may configure themselves continuously and fluidly to adapt to ever changing circumstances while continuing to fulfil their purpose. [...] Resilience is, like life itself, messy, imperfect, and inefficient. But it survives."

Now here's the catch (fellow Mexicans):
"The most important of these is the critical role of trust and cooperation- people's ability to collaborate when it counts. We'll look at two cases of cooperation in the midst of a crisis, one from Haiti and one from Wall Street- the former spectacularly successful and the latter spectacularly unsuccessful- and explore concrete things we can do to build, and harness, collaborative systems." 

Hard. It really is. I mean a collaborative system. After a great damage, new options can rebirth. What do New Orleanians have that we don't? I have been asking myself this question. We're supposed to be a an embracing and warm culture, but then again, are we that way with our own kind? When have we ever invited our indigenous groups to construct the modern view of a country and even overruling the technocrats decisions? What do communities in Michoacán, Chiapas and in different parts of our country know about trust, that we don't in the "big" city?

"Instead, we found resilient communities frequently relied as much on informal networks, rooted in deep trust, to contend with and heal disruption."

Paraphrasing, in regards to disruption, we have to learn when to cooperate and how to collaborate when it counts. Maybe not on our spare time, or when is more convenient for certain groups. And specially when and if, dealing with a system that delays processes and keeps silent after blurting more histerical, sorry historical truths.

[Andrew Zolli & Ann Marie Healy: Resilience, Why things bounce back]