The thought upon which I will be sleeping tonight: Application of the scientific method and systems thinking to society is a good way to summarily describe a Resource Based Economy. What stands between us and that society is a value shift. To more efficiently affect that value shift, every person actively engaging people on behalf of RBE needs to understand BOTH the value set we hold now AND the value set of the RBE - as well as how each set respectively self-perpetuates once in place, through various feedback mechanisms. When dealing with complex systems, there are multiple nodes, or feedback variables, that reinforce one another. To shift them requires THRESHOLDS of those nodes being disabled (in the case of the original set) and enabled (in the case of the desired set). Likewise, since the human population is also a complex system, the threshold applies there as well, with the threshold being a portion of the people which have tipped their value set toward the new set or changed their perspectives (ever heard the saying a mind stretched cannot be returned to its original dimensions?). The Social Diffusion Model describes this. I propose having a visualization tool for each of these value sets, which people could use to organize campaigns against each of the current values (feedback variables), and further be able to explain how the new system would work (the new value set and how they will be self-perpetuating). The key takeaway here is that we do not need to change 100% of peoples minds 100% - that is the kind of thinking to which most of us are accustomed and it leads to self-defeatism. Its much more like ~50% of the values in ~30% of the people. After that, the diffusion becomes exponential and self-perpetuating. But an organized campaign on multiple fronts can make our efforts more efficient - more effective, quicker. Im thinking of it in epidemiological terms. Just putting it out there.
Posted on: Thu, 03 Apr 2014 01:18:11 +0000
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