Power structure insight
Contents
Power structure
The scope
Innovation, democracy and global issues
The scope here literally changes everything. It points to deep causes. It points to solutions. It points to a way to disarm the "wicked issues", by removing their very wickedness!
Consider the systems in which we live and work as gigantic mechanisms, comprising people and technology. (copy the rest).
The insight
The systems, stupid!
Really, we can here talk about two core insights.
The first we considered calling "The systems, stupid!" – which is a paraphrase of Bill Clinton's 1992 successful presidential campaign slogan, "The economy, stupid!". It's not the economy. It's the systems! Once this is understood, the old political agendas fade into oblivion – and completely new ones emerge and come to the forefront.
The second insight is that it's not just the systems; it's the evolution of systems!
We are the enemy
The core insight is to change the idea of the enemy completely.
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The reversals
This changes everything
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Global issues
We cannot solve them by working within the systems that created them
Democracy
Systemic change is the control; and the first thing that must be done if we the people should HAVE control.
Innovation
Our use of our creative powers must become SYSTEMIC
The action
Beyond the invisible hand
Instead of trusting "the invisible hand" – we consider ourselves liable for systemic wholeness. We use our creative powers NOT as the market demands – but to ensure systemic wholeness.
Impossible? Just think of the Middle Ages, and their prejudices they had to overcome...
Federation
Other stories
Joel Bakan and corporation, Paul Grignon's Money as Debt; Charles Ferguson...
Sigmunt Bauman
The power structure pattern
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