Het boek start met een prachtig voorwoord van Alfonso Montuori waarin de hele filosofie van Morin wordt geduid. Daarin het volgende citaat over het belang van complexiteitsdenken:

“What this means is that in times of great anxiety, human beings often need to reduce the complexity by finding one source to blame for their anxiety and attribute all that is wrong (scapegoating). This is accompanied by thinking in dualistic terms: They are bad, we are good. If you are not for us you are against us. ”

(Montuori, 2008, p. xxxvii)