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Redefining human complexities
Horizon Research just informed me that the paper about redefining human complexities has been published in the journal of Sociology and Anthropology Vol 3 (6).
It has been made available in Open Access so you can benefit from the manuscript free of charge. You can always comment to me if you have observations or enquiries.
PAPER ID: 19690341
PAPER TITLE: Redefining Human Complexities
ARTICLE INFO: http://www.hrpub.org/journals/article_info.php?aid=2647
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Sociology and Anthropology
Sociology and Anthropology is an international peer-reviewed journal that publishes original and high-quality research papers in all areas of sociology and anthropology. As an important academic exchange platform, scientists and researchers can know the most up-to-date academic trends and seek valuable primary sources for reference.
ISSN: 2331-6179 (Print)
ISSN: 2331-6187 (Online)
Website: http://www.hrpub.org/journals/jour_info.php?id=96
Capitalism kills and Sustainocracy saves
While I am finalizing the forthcoming co-authored book on the completion of the first phase of AiREAS in Eindhoven, making visible the invisible, it is also proof of concept of Sustainocracy and the way a purpose driven multidisciplinary effort can solve the world issues. We have decided to make the book available through open access publishing. This means that we actually pay a fee to make it available free of charge for the whole world. We have chosen the world leading publisher Springer to make it available through their global network.
The book is written in four parts. The first part is written van Benjamin Roosen and refers to the end of story of capitalism. Every end of an era announces the beginning of a new. In 2013 this article already opened up the minds and worries of many. http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/19872-capitalism-and-the-destruction-of-life-on-earth-six-theses-on-saving-the-humans
The second part is written by me and talks about my own process of awakening to the harsh reality of a destructive future and my desire to leave something more sustainable behind for my children. I went through the painful process of letting go as described already by psychiatrist Abraham Dubrowki. Positive disintegration and the secondary integration have a special effect on how one relates to the world and its many realities. My own evolutionary process can be read in this blog that I started in 2010 I believe. Awareness alone is not enough. The intention to do something that actually shows a route forward that is safer than what we are heading for today, sufficiently disruptive to make a difference but equally interesting for partners to participate, was complex and challenging. I arrived at defining Sustainocracy which resulted in the first sustainocratic venture, called AiREAS, in 2010. Now, five years later we have completed the first cycle, the first STIR loop.
The third part of the book describes the technological and scientific challenge of making visible the invisible in the context of air pollution. It is written by the scientists and technological specialists who did the co-creation. This part of the book also contains an introduction by AiREAS co-founder Marco van Lochem.
The fourth and last part of the book describes the experiences we have had since the installation of the visualization network and also the problems we faced to actually take responsibility together with the impediments caused by the transaction and tax based system.
As we were writing the book to close off this chapter, while we are already working on phase 2 and 3 in Eindhoven, expanding phase 1 into the world of cities, we took some time to reference our work with theories that evolve around the world. It is interesting now to see how Otto Scharmer uses his U-theory to come to insights as well as a definition of an eco-based community. See here: https://www.presencing.com/ego-to-eco/social-evolution. In this link you find the highly illustrative matrix that I show below and in which I positioned AiREAS (right hand bottom).
AiREAS is pioneer in this field of work
Sustainocracy actually positions all society in that corner of the matrix, not just AiREAS. It is the field of harmonization for wellbeing that I defined in my own model of human complexities.
Old and new leadership can develop in a complementory way
I will post the link to the book here and on the Global AiREAS blog when it becomes available in about 8 weeks time.
Maslow was wrong
The Lieberman correction:
Our School of Talents helps young people with Dyslexia, ADHD or Autisme to develop themselves and their talents through stimulating natural network functions of the brain. In our City of Tomorrow projects the same network dynamics are used to set up multidisciplinary co-creation platforms that address global issues locally. With our STIR Academy we help large organizations streamline their internal and external productivity by addressing the social network relationships between all the people involved.
It ALL comes down to how we live and relate together, and with our surroundings. The basic essential of a productive community is social interaction, that spiritual connection of life that connects everything that has come alive, right from the moment the first molecules come together into living patterns of birth, all the way up to the point of them breaking up again to become available for a new cycle of life.
Matthew Lieberman does research on this evolutionary brainfunction that governs our emotions and social activities. He claims that Maslow was wrong by defining the primary needs of us to be our physical basic requirements. We believe the Lieberman correction is correct.
In essence we agree with Lieberman. Where we all tend to go wrong in our thinking is that we take our life for granted and then simply reason about our primary needs to sustain life. Basicly this misperception is the cause of humankind to develop greed and hierarchies of power that ultimately endanger life. We cannot however take life for granted, certainly not as a self aware species. Life is a delicate energetic state between molecules that can be referred to as a social, not physical interaction. We often refer to this unique bondage as “spiritual”. Without this live provoking bondage we would not need to eat, find shelter or anything for that matter. Our physical needs are therefor captured between social energies at molecular level that expands across the entire life system, including human beings, and the awareness provoking issue of “meaning”.
This Lieberman correction has enormous consequences for our societies and the way we develop our societies. Sustainocracy is based on this new piramid and all our activities invite to this new social pattern of awareness, meaning, wellness, productivity and harmony.
Sustainocracy, the new democracy 