Time to reintegrate The civil unrest and “Occupy” movements occurring around the globe, designed to call attention to what their participants view as corrupt and enslaving political and economic systems, tend to evoke strong reactions, for or against, in favor
Time to reintegrate
The civil unrest and “Occupy” movements occurring around the globe, designed to call attention to what their participants view as corrupt and enslaving political and economic systems, tend to evoke strong reactions, for or against, in favor of or opposed to. In addition, there are many who either ignore or consider them naive, useless, and irrelevant. It is also possible to understand them as evidence that something is happening on the human scene, similar to what is, and always has been happening in all systems throughout the Cosmos.
When viewed comprehensively, all cells, stars, galaxies, solar systems, human systems (political, social, industrial, economic, as well as entire human civilizations), and individual human beings (including our interpersonal support-systems), reveal the inner workings of four fundamental forces — conservation, reformation, dissolution, and transformation.
The forces of conservation work to hold together and protect the gains that each system has accomplished. The forces of reformation work to retain a flexibility within the stabilizing structures that support these gains, so they can be incrementally revised and upgraded. These two forces work together in mutual respect and mutual support, maximizing the effectiveness of their own assignments, so that when the time is right (neither too early nor too late) the third forces of dissolution can do their work of taking things apart, enabling both the gains to be preserved and the limitations transcended, thereby allowing the fourth forces of transformation to do their work (an example is the cocoon and butterfly).
By achieving and maintaining both a sufficient stability and flexibility, a system is able to go through a process of dissolving its current characteristics and capacities, to reintegrate on a new and more leverage-multiplying, synergy-yielding level. Systems that do not do this always self-destruct.
In our human world, the forces of conservation and reformation are obvious and visible, whereas the forces of dissolution and transformation are subtle and essentially invisible. It is only on the human scene that the forces of conservation and reformation (i.e., right-wing conservatives and left-wing liberals) fight against and try to overpower each other, rather than cooperate. Rather than opposing and seeking to destroy one another, each of us can choose to fulfill a function as agents of one or more of these four forces. Radical expressions of “Conservation” produce rigidity and fragility; radical expressions of “Reformation” produce confusion and chaos; radical expressions of “Dissolution” trigger compromise or resignation; radical expressions of “Transformation”, lead to arrogance and/or naïve pipe-dreaming. The result is self-destruction.
When aligning with the timeless forces of transformation we can be agents of “Expectancy” — the visionaries committed to “thinking outside the box”, keeping all strategies (from the conceptual to the practical) within the context of the “big picture”, the context of the timeless process of emergence.
When aligning with the timeless forces of dissolution, we can be agents of “Humility” — maintaining a perspective of the “bigger picture”, the perspective that all orderly patterns in complex systems throughout the Cosmos, emerge, in unanticipated form, from the bottom up, not from the top down.
Aligning with the timeless forces of reformation enables us to be agents of “Flexibility” — the restless activists who acknowledge the temporary need for, but refuse to settle for existing concessions to a “work-in-process”, and who, in spite of the incremental changes they are able to effect, willingly accept that all emergent phenomena erupt spontaneously, in novel, unpredictable forms, once the conditions are right.
Aligning with the timeless forces of conservation, enables us to be agents of “Stability” — the peace-makers who seek to maintain a perspective of oneness, and the need to sustain the benefits made by our temporary concessions to a work-in-process.
Robert P. Merkle, Koloa
Corporate power is not capitalism
In reply to Ralph Tamm’s Dec. 2 letter “Occupy What?”, which ridicules the Occupy Movement “adolescent children lashing out at supposed boogie men…the few with more marbles”, and then he corrects those “adolescent children” as to “their true enemy” which he sees as “big government”.
This is the typical Corporate Power Party Line advocated by Corporate Network Media which controls over 90 percent of the public airwaves.
Most educated and informed Occupy Movement folks see the problem as the “corporate coup d’etat which has gradually taken over our government, which has devolved into a corrupt corporatocracy, where all important decisions are guided directly or indirectly by corporate lobbyists, enormous corporate campaign contributions, revolving-door government/corporate regulators and other complicit government officials, to name just a few.
Many of the so-called radical liberal “adolescent children” in fact see themselves as true conservatives and true free market capitalists who wish to “restore the rule of law”, expel the true radical corporate coup d’etat, restore our democracy, restore our free press, and restore our free market capitalism.
Ryan Couhan, Koloa
