On 29th June 2025, in the grounds of St Giles House—where the Third Earl of Shaftesbury first questioned his tutor John Locke’s Enlightenment architecture—I conducted a funeral for human supremacy. This essay asks what grows when we bury the King and learn to garden instead.
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Something remarkable is happening in British primary schools. Across the country, schools are quietly restructuring themselves around a different understanding of children—not as objects to be managed through behaviour policies, but as subjects who need to feel safe before they can learn. The revolution is quiet. But it is real.
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I’ve worked with Theory of Constraints for decades.
I used to believe the constraint was inside the system.
Now I believe the constraint is our belief that we stand outside it.
I wrote this essay as a gift and a challenge to the TOC community. What if the systems we prize exist in our minds, not in the living, relational world? What if the map has become the deepest constraint?
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We’re not just stuck in a bad story—we’re enchanted by it. Symbolic intelligence falling in love with its own creations, mistaking maps for territory, narratives for reality. We’d rather die inside the beautiful lie than live in the humbler truth. Crowhurst couldn’t turn back. Can we?
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A modern version of the Classic Scriptural reading, frequently heard during Christian Christmas services. It emerged through a joint human/AI investigation.
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