Yes, We Need A New Superordinate Structure, No, It Shouldnt Be Run By Authoritarian Elites I am reading The Art of Interconnected Thinking by Frederic Vester and its interesting to me that the aims of our Power Elites seem to be going in the direction a systems thinker might go in. The one overwhelming difference is The New World Order of our Power Elites is totally authoritarian with a small band of Power Elite decision-makers, whereas, the model of system thinkers is based on what we see in nature (nature knows how to do things) with participative democracy as the basis of its operations. The Earth is an organism in which plants, animals, and people resemble cells. Each tiny entity in that organism has specific tasks to perform, and only if this proceeds in good harmony will the organism live, bloom, and flourish. Technological civilisation man with his compulsive mania for suppressing, reducing, and destroying the natural in order to put giant growths of unnatural things in its place bears a fateful similarity to cancer. Ever since this spiritual sickness has been raging and raging, its consequences spread like metastases over the Earth. Indians have ben saying this for more than three hundred years. Check it out. But how is one to explain to a tumour that precisely what it deems a magnificent success actually amounts to suicide. The findings of biocybernetics also show that a system develops most advantageously in symbiosis with its environment. This will mean that it forms suitable sub-structures and that it in turn becomes part of an over-arching structure, to which it will stand in a reciprocal relationship. Feedback hierarchies of structures and substructures will then arise - a fundamental principle of viable systems that our own body cells already observe. A typical feature of chaotic structure is poor communication... Only a change in behavior and change of awareness will save the current dense world population. Nature has ways of eliminating unsuitable species that do not contribute to the survival of the Whole. The chaos we see around us cries out for a New Paradigm with new values, new thinking. Short term solutions must yield to long term strategies. We need to focus on soft science signs of progress in values, in structure terms, and in terms of quality of life. This is in fact a qualitative type of growth, it takes place in the information sphere, not in those of materials and energy. sustainable systemic growth can only emerge from a systemic situation. Qualitative Growth built on the model of nature is the watchword in The New Paradigm.
Posted on: Sat, 09 Aug 2014 20:46:53 +0000