tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58284071645565695872024-03-08T00:23:37.224-05:00MANIFESTO for a REVOLUTION in THINKINGBoris G Freesman, Q.C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14251526040537190336noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5828407164556569587.post-83946805533609165042012-08-10T20:40:00.000-04:002016-11-24T21:00:05.437-05:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "arial rounded mt bold" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 120%;">The present state
of the human condition on this planet is a sorry mess.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial rounded mt bold" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 120%;">I lament the level
of human suffering, the immensity of the catalogue of abuses, cruelty, dishonesty,
fraud, crime, violence, starvation, genocide, corruption, incompetence... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial rounded mt bold" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 120%;">This mess </span><span style="font-family: "arial rounded mt bold" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 120%;">torments me. It </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial rounded mt bold" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 120%;">did not grow on trees
or, like a noxious weed, in our fields and gardens. It did not emerge from some
forsaken womb. Nor did it hit us like a meteor from outer space or a seismic
undercurrent… </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial rounded mt bold" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 120%;">No. This mess is the creation of human minds. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial rounded mt bold" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 120%;">We created it. All of us. Together. Whether we like it or
not, this is the tangible harvest of our collective imaginations, our
creativity and ingenuity. It is an achievement of the ways we, the human
family, think and act. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial rounded mt bold" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 120%;">Most of the
concepts and ideas that drive our current state of affairs were formulated during
the 1960’s, 70’s and 80’s. My generation [those born between the two great wars]
were then “in charge” of the state and progress of human affairs. The foundation
for what we have today was laid down during “our watch,” so I feel a special sense
of collective as well as personal accountability for the mess: accountable not
only to my own children and grandchildren, but to all future generations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial rounded mt bold" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 120%;">I have been thinking and writing about change
most of my adult life. I witnessed and experienced <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Dawning of the Age of Aquarius</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Greening of America</i>
and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Aquarian Conspiracy</i>. Undeniably,
this mess confirms that none of these regenerational ideas led to any significant
change in the human condition. None of them caused a genuine change in the way that,
collectively, human beings think and act.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial rounded mt bold" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 120%;">I am utterly convinced that I know what fundamental
changes we must make to turn things around, but I am also tormented by my failure,
thus far, to articulate my ideas in a way that moves people to act instead of acknowledging
or saluting what I say or write and then continue doing what they have always
done before.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial rounded mt bold" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 120%;">Specifically, what needs to change is the
way we think because the way we think – our dogma, doctrines, concepts,
opinions and beliefs about what works and what does not work – is what produced
this mess in the first place. And if our ideas about what works created the mess,
then more of the same ways of thinking can only mean more of the same mess! </span></div>
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are blind. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial rounded mt bold" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 120%;">Nevertheless, we will not solve our
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<span style="font-family: "arial rounded mt bold" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 120%;">Nowhere is
this self-imposed slavery more obvious than in the way we think about interpersonal
conflicts: They are horrible, nasty and to be avoided if at all possible. And
if they cannot be avoided, then we must engage in a process of determining who
is “right” and who is “wrong,” and which is “good” and which is “bad” in order
to resolve the conflict.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "arial rounded mt bold" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 120%;">M</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "arial rounded mt bold" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 120%;">entally,
we are stuck in an “either/or” dynamic or syllogism. First, we experience diversity,
differences and disagreements with other people; ultimately, we wind up engaging
in disputes that must be resolved by considering comparative legal rights and
obligations. Routinely, we wind up in lawsuits and litigation which clearly exposes
our obsession with win/lose strategies and zero sum equations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "arial rounded mt bold" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 120%;">Seeing our conflicts as implicating us in disputes and
lawsuits – indeed, violence and wars if the conflict involves larger groups or nations
– is something that is deeply ingrained in us, historically and culturally. It
is called the adversarial mind set.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial rounded mt bold" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 120%;">But today </span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "arial rounded mt bold" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 120%;">we are
living in a reality much different from that which existed during the centuries
over which the adversarial paradigm was formulated. Our new reality is a very
complex world of overwhelming variety, differences and diversity. In such a complex
reality, involvement in progressively more complex conflicts is one of the new facts
of life. We experience them every day in practically everything that we do,
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "arial rounded mt bold" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 120%;">Interpersonal conflicts are the inevitable consequence
of the fact that we are each unique as individuals and have different and
divergent views and interests in any given situation. We will have to learn to think
of them </span><span style="font-family: "arial rounded mt bold" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 120%;">in a different
way: an interpersonal conflict is a signal that two or more human beings have </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial rounded mt bold" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 120%;">incompatible or dissonant needs that need to be harmonized.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial rounded mt bold" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 120%;">Conflicts have enormous
potential for synergy if we but choose to think about the incompatibilities we
observe in terms of their <i>complementarities </i>– as opportunities for
“both/and” thinking. And they are desirable and helpful if we can tap their
potential as catalysts for change.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial rounded mt bold" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 120%;">The first
change we must make is to change the way we think about and respond to
conflicts. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial rounded mt bold" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 120%;">The second
change is to change the way we think about complexity in our affairs.</span></div>
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change is to change the way we think about change itself.</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial rounded mt bold" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 120%;">“Emancipate yourself from mental slavery… free [y]our minds…”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial rounded mt bold" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 120%;">In my heart and mind, I <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">still<span style="color: blue;"> <i>hold these
truths to be self evident:</i></span></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><i><span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial rounded mt bold" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 120%;">that all men are created equal,</span></i></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 120%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><i><span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial rounded mt bold" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 120%;">that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable
rights, </span></i></div>
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</span></span></span><i><span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial rounded mt bold" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 120%;">that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness… </span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial rounded mt bold" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 120%;">And, today, <i><span style="color: blue;">among
these rights</span></i> there are several others: sodality; peace; order; security
from abuse; education; justice; freedom from fear; clean air and water;
wholesome food; competent health care; honorable work; honest and proficient
government… for, without these we can no longer safeguard our search for <i><span style="color: blue;">Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.</span></i><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial rounded mt bold" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 120%;">And I still
agree <i><span style="color: blue;">that to secure these rights, Governments are
instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the
governed…</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial rounded mt bold" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 120%;">The
fundamental quandary underlying this depressing mess is the fact that our
systems of government are dysfunctional. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial rounded mt bold" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 120%;">We have a legal system committed to a
sporting theory of justice: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Trial by
Battle</i>. That is why the process takes so long and costs so much. And the
adversarial mentality and system guarantee that one of the first casualties in the
process is truth: That is why the criminal justice system convicts so many
innocents and absolves such a huge number of criminals. Absent truth, whither
justice?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial rounded mt bold" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 120%;">The sad but
conspicuous fact is that, today, crime does pay.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial rounded mt bold" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 120%;">We continue to try to control what has
become an extremely complex and global economic system by doing the least
possible. <i>Laissez faire</i><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">: </span>trust
the market place; let competition and the self interest and judgment of the
capitalists – meaning greed – and invisible hands do the rest... thereby
ensuring that we totally disregard the radical complexification of human
affairs over the past 250 years.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial rounded mt bold" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 120%;">Perhaps free
market economies and capitalism were sound strategies for the 18<sup>th</sup>
century but, as Wall Street and Detroit have unequivocally now demonstrated, they
are bankrupt concepts for the 21<sup>st</sup>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial rounded mt bold" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 120%;">Our
majority-rule, representative and, supposedly, republican and democratic – but,
actually, oligarchic and autocratic – political system hinges on the
preposterous presumption that 51 fools are capable of more intelligent
decisions than 50 sages. And that the most important priority for an elected
official is to raise and spend huge sums of money to get re-elected and stay in
power to serve partisan interests.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial rounded mt bold" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 120%;">The consequences
are <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: blue;">self evident</span></i>:
our political systems are lacking in wisdom. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial rounded mt bold" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 120%;">We don’t have an education system. We have
an <i>inculcation</i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>system which
evaluates achievement by a student’s ability to regurgitate, on demand,
whatever dogma, doctrine, concept, opinion or belief was pumped into her/his
heart and mind. Whither, then, imaginative, creative, intelligent thinking?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial rounded mt bold" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 120%;">And its
purpose is to inculcate a way of thinking that will secure the continuation of
the <i>status quo</i>... that is, to defend the way we now think about our
legal, economic and political systems and institutions so that we can continue
doing what we have always done.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial rounded mt bold" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 120%;">We are only fooling ourselves if we infer we
have subdued the monsters and crisis that have plagued us over the past 5 years
or so.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial rounded mt bold" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 120%;">No problems have been resolved. We have
addressed some questions and, as we habitually do, postponed dealing with the
problems by throwing huge sums of money at the symptoms – money that we do not
have and which we leave as a burden to our children and grandchildren. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial rounded mt bold" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 120%;">We have not
yet begun dealing with the real issues. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nothing
very much has changed in the way that we manage our personal and societal affairs;
in our concepts, opinions and beliefs about what works and what does not work;
in our doctrines concerning our legal, economic, political and educational
institutions and systems; in our dogma regarding adversarial justice,
capitalism, competition, information privacy and representative democracy… <i>Steady
as she goes</i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial rounded mt bold" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 120%;">The money that
we throw at these symptoms only extends the lives of our institutions and their
ability to continue doing what they have always done. But, as Albert Einstein
observed, to continue doing what we have always done but expect different
results is, quintessentially, a definition of insanity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial rounded mt bold" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 120%;">The real and most
fundamental issue that we must now face – the issue which, so far, we always
manage to avoid dealing with – is the simple truth that our <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: blue;">Forms of Government</span></i>
are anachronisms. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial rounded mt bold" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 120%;">The ways that we
structure our organizations, the processes that we use to make collective decisions,
and the strategies we deploy to implement the decisions that we make… these are
obsolete relics from a vanished reality; a reality in which exchanges of information
between people [except when face-to-face] were written with quill pens on
pieces of parchment which travelled at the speed of horses and sails.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial rounded mt bold" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 120%;">If <i><span style="color: blue;">the governments instituted among Men</span></i> have failed
to <i><span style="color: blue;">secure</span></i><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">our<span style="color: blue;"> <i>unalienable rights</i></span>... </span>if they have
ceased to be competent, honest, intelligent, effective and wise servants of the
people and have become, instead, their abusers and the servants of special
interests... then the time has come for <i><span style="color: blue;">the governed</span></i>
to withhold their <i><span style="color: blue;">consent</span></i>.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "arial rounded mt bold" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 120%;">Yes, a revolution! We have had them before! But, this
time, a revolution <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">inside, here </i>–
revolutionizing the way we think.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "arial rounded mt bold" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 120%;">But not a paradigm shift. Not learning to think <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">outside the box!</i> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not a better paradigm nor a superior box,
either. Of course, there are some paradigms and boxes that are better than
others, but our primary dilemma arises from the fact that we think in paradigms!
We build boxes around our ideas and concepts and lock ourselves inside. Better
boxes are nevertheless boxes!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "arial rounded mt bold" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 120%;">My plea is that we begin to think in models. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "arial rounded mt bold" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 120%;">The difference between a paradigm and a model is that
the parameters and boundaries of a paradigm are, by definition, fixed and not
negotiable: they are closed. That is why we call them boxes. The parameters of
a model are always flexible and negotiable: they are open and always receptive
to new information and perspectives.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "arial rounded mt bold" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 120%;">Essentially, I mean thinking with open minds rather
than closed minds: surely, there can be no disagreement over that?</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "arial rounded mt bold" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 120%;">Also, models must be designed on a foundation of systemic
thinking – that is, with whole systems perspectives. It is time to confess what
we have known for a very long time but have refused to let go: the myths and
cult of individualism… of the doctrine that people are sovereign, independent
and separate from each other.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "arial rounded mt bold" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 120%;">We are not. Each human being is a component part of other,
more comprehensive, human systems:– immediate family, extended family,
neighbourhood, city, etc... and our systems of government also are, first and
foremost, interconnected systems rather than isolated or disconnected entities.
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: blue; font-family: "arial rounded mt bold" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 120%;">“</span></i><i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial rounded mt bold" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%;">No man is an island</span></i></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial rounded mt bold" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 120%;"> entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of
the main…”</span></i></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial rounded mt bold" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 120%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>John Donne</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "arial rounded mt bold" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 120%;"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "arial rounded mt bold" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 120%;">In my mind, three </span><span style="font-family: "arial rounded mt bold" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 120%;">questions
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial rounded mt bold" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 120%;">Question Number One:</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial rounded mt bold" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 120%;"> <i><span style="color: red;"> </span></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial rounded mt bold" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 120%;"><i><span style="color: red;">What does the human body [the human system] have that no
social system or organization [governmental, institutional or corporate] has?</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial rounded mt bold" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 120%;">A real time
decision making and control system operating with full and transparent access
to all relevant and necessary information.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial rounded mt bold" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 120%;">Think about it:
how your own body functions. Indeed, how you absorb and interpret even the thoughts
and words you are reading this very moment. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial rounded mt bold" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 120%;">Each of us has
a real time decision making system [the brain] and a real time control system [the
nervous system] at work managing our every thought, word and action. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial rounded mt bold" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 120%;">And the brain and
nervous system have continuous and instantaneous access to all the data and
information that the whole body collects moment by moment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial rounded mt bold" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 120%;">Or, consider
the automobile that you drive. You have a real time decision making system
[you, the driver] and real time control systems [steering wheel, accelerator,
brakes, suspension, computer controlled mechanisms, etc.] working with
constantly updated information about the road conditions, etc. You could not
possibly drive your car without them! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial rounded mt bold" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 120%;">Try to imagine
what a catastrophe you and your car would be if you had to drive with a time
delayed, after-the-fact, reactive control system operating without all necessary
and relevant information... so that the command to brake and turn right came,
at best, hours after the point in time when you had to make the turn. And, even
then, based only on partial, incomplete or censored information!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial rounded mt bold" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 120%;">Yet, that is
the way in which, in fact, our governments, institutions and corporations manage
their affairs… and ours, too!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial rounded mt bold" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 120%;">For the first
time in recorded human history, information and communication technology offers
the potential to create <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">real-time + transparent-information</i>
decision and control systems for our social organizations and institutions!</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial rounded mt bold" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 120%;">“Information is the currency of
democracy</span></i></b><span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial rounded mt bold" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 120%;">.”</span><span style="font-family: "arial rounded mt bold" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 120%;"></span></div>
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Jefferson</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial rounded mt bold" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 120%;">Today, society
is an extremely complex system – indeed, a system of complex systems. Only a complex,
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">real-time + transparent-information</i>
decision and control system can manage the complexity of such a complex system:
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The complexity of the control system must
match the complexity of the system controlled</i>. This is the key that opens
the door to mastering the complexity of our daily affairs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial rounded mt bold" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 120%;">Imagine a
legal, economic or political system, or any organization or institution, with
real time decision making and control functions and systems and instantaneous
access to all relevant information… </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial rounded mt bold" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 120%;"><i><span style="color: red;">What would be undesirable about a surveillance society</span></i><span style="color: red; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">[a system in which huge quantities of accurate, reliable data is constantly
being collected and maintained so that, as a practical matter, all information
about each person and events is accurately recorded, organized, accessible and
transferable]<span style="color: red;"> <i>if, at the same time, the government system
were totally transparent, accountable, responsible, participative, libertarian,
open, fair, just, compassionate, effective, efficient... and secure against
abuse?</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial rounded mt bold" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 120%;">We are not
quite there yet. But considering how far we have progressed in the past 25
years or so, it seems reasonable to anticipate that within 25 years we will
have sufficiently reliable and accurate communications and information
technology to achieve it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial rounded mt bold" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 120%;">Abusers require
privacy and anonymity in order to conceal what they do and their identities;
without secrecy they cannot function, they cannot abuse. So, one of the first
things we must do is to abandon the idea of information secrecy or privacy
itself: any potential or actual abuser would then be quickly and easily
discovered and identified.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial rounded mt bold" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 120%;">A sane thought
for us to consider at this stage in the evolution of human affairs, would be to
truly take to heart Buckminster Fuller’s poignant observation that, without
exception, all human beings share an inescapable reality: all of us are interdependent,
interrelated, interactive and interconnected passengers on “Spaceship Earth.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial rounded mt bold" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 120%;">Thus it is
clear what we must do: <i><span style="color: blue;">that whenever any Form of
Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to
alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation
on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall
seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.</span></i><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial rounded mt bold" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 120%;">If, in 2012,
the <i><span style="color: blue;">Forms of Government instituted</span></i> in
1776 have become <i><span style="color: blue;">destructive</span></i> of our <i><span style="color: blue;">equality, secur[ity]</span></i> and <i><span style="color: blue;">rights</span></i>, then the time has come <i><span style="color: blue;">to abolish</span></i><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">
</span>them and to replace them with <i><span style="color: blue;">new Forms of
Government</span></i><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> </span>equal to
the task of managing the massive, rapid changes and monumental complexity and
conflicts of the reality in which we live today. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "arial rounded mt bold" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 120%;">Yes, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: blue;">government of, by and for the people</span> </i>but not
necessarily, therefore, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">representative</i>
democracy as we now know it. Instead, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">participative</i>
democracy! </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "arial rounded mt bold" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 120%;">In other words, a new form of government: a Just
Society for today.</span><br />
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