Brechitin Asia and Africa 
 
 
    But wait a moment. Isn't there something wrong? Surely that isn't 
Capra. You are right. It is Fritjof Engels, otherwise known as Friedrich.

The need for a change to a relational paradigm has seldom been better 
expressed, though naturally some of his arguments have been 
superseded, as he would be the first to acknowledge. I suppose the real 
problem now is that such thinking is no longer simply "utopian"
but the 
only way of avoiding disaster. 
     This relationalism constitutes a metanarrative, though an 
interrelational one, and we now have to learn how to read it and to write
it 
at the same time. 
 
 
 
 
                                 NOTES 
 
 
1. Friedrich Engels, The Dialectics of Nature, New York, 1940, p.291ff. 
 
 
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