Pulling away from the details of daily news reports may be a challenge. But without standing back, we won't recognize the evolution within social and economic development that is occurring as a backdrop to the news stories. Social and economic evolution is being created by millions of people.
Einstein pulled away from the details of nationalism. He pointed out how nationalism was a childhood illness of humanity, much like measles.
More of us are having to find ways to prosper, or survive, with less reliance on buying new goods and services. This is leading to evolutionary change.
As we become more efficient and learn to do more with less we will find that coordination between individuals, families, and neighbourhoods, becomes more important. Coordination is the next big economic need that we have to find ways to fulfill.
Coordination cannot be imposed internationally, from the top-down, and remain efficient at the same time. One government structure overseeing the world would be unbelievably out of touch with people's everyday needs. It would be incredibly inefficient.
International coordination is better achieved amongst individuals in neighbourhoods, rather than in centralized ways. The alternative to increased centralization is doing things in distributed ways across networks.
International coordination is beginning to happen over aspects of the Internet that will become like a nerve system for international society.
Using this blog we will continue to share in this new found social maturity. We can discuss what we / you, anticipate will be subsequent stages of society, so that we all benefit. My bet is that this will involve integrating ourselves, and all the resources around us in our neighbourhoods, into a more realistic social perspective. I think we will find much more realistic perspectives on organizing ourselves as an international society by looking at how nature organizes things.
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