The Orange Alternative is the name for an underground protest movement that started in Poland in the 1980′s.  Its main purpose was to offer ordinary people a peaceful, absurd and nonsensical way of opposing the authoritarian regime. People painted mythological dwarves  in orange hats on walls and pavements. This became the movement’s symbol. Systems thinking doesn’t have a collective voice, nevermind a symbol. But it is certainly a challenge to conventional authority. IF I still worked in the public sector with command and control thinkers and IF systems thinkers had a symbol,  I would be the first to get my red pen out. Deming talked about joy in work. But when the system is toxic, there is joy in subversion.