Re: do we need a master game manager?

["Laurence J.Victor" <nuu@azstarnet.com>]

Roberto Verzola,
I agree with you.  There have been many successful human systems,
which gives us encouragement. The current globalization is mechanistic
and very dangerous.  But, I'm equally afraid of how the fragments will
interact in these times of crises and with new technologies of control
and violence -- will the battles between peoples in ex-Yugoslavia
become a major pattern -- cowboys in nuke/bioweapon shootouts?  How to
dismantle is important.

Are there any global meta-systems that facilitate true mediation
between communities, without attempting to impose resolutions, yet
holding to some "standard" of honesty, with a deep committment to
global unity WITH DIVERSITY.

My focus is on the alternative to transformation: emergence.  I
believe we have inherited processes that can lead to viable
communities, but we yet need to develop how many communities relate to
become a viable system WITHOUT becoming a Global Civilization.  I view
"civilizations" as a mechanistic means of organizing large populations
-- what we now have the full potential to seed and nurture the
emergence of, is an organistic nested system-within-systems global
humanity.  It is time that a global human system emerge that is beyond
civilization.

One essay on the transformation/emergence distinction:
http://www.azstarnet.com/~nuu/Y2K/work_1.htm#emergence_transformation

Larry Victor

At 08:29 AM 1/7/99 +0000, you wrote:
>>Laurence Victor:
>>I am now reading Oliver Sacks' The Island of the Colorblind.  He
>>tells of the history of boom/bust in Micronesia, where humans (not
>>reindeer, and without game managers) exhausted their commons and
>>eventually ate themselves.
>
>And so, they have probably disappeared from the face of the Earth.
>
>I have no doubt you can cite other examples. But I can also cite
>counter-examples of ancient peoples who have survived to this day.
>They must have done something right. If they are threatened with
>extinction now, it is probably less due to some flawed mindset of
>theirs but because a more globalist society with deeply-flawed
>mindsets is threatening them externally, as what happened with many
>indigenous societies driven to extinction by Western colonizers.
>
>Different mindsets will obviously lead to different results: death,
>static stability, dynamic stability, total chaos, etc.
>
>This is what is most dangerous with the globalist,
>one-world-government-of-coercion approach. If that government adopts a
>flawed approach, the mistake brings down everybody. Easter Island on a
>global scale. Thus, the earlier point about having one and only one
>chance becomes a self-fulfulling prophesy.
>
>When you have a huge complex system, you avoid turning it into one
>humongous tightly-coupled system but you break it up into smaller,
>relatively independent subsystems which interact with each other
>through well-defined interfaces. This principle of modularization
>results in systems which are more robust and resilient and less
>bug-ridden and crash-prone. This is what systems theory, which Jay
>Hanson so frequently cites, teaches too.
>
>Each subsystem (ie, community or bioregion or country -- although some
>countries are probably too large) can adopt different rulesets (or
>variations of rulesets) and no single flawed ruleset can bring down
>the whole of humanity -- as it probably will, given a world
>government.
>
>In ecology, this debate is mirrored in the debate between biodiversity
>and monoculture.
>
>And to raise a note of alarm: we ARE in fact moving towards world
>government. The elements are already emerging: a more militarily
>assertive UN, the IMF/WB, the WTO, the proposed MAI, gigacorporations
>(which by the way have started contributing to the UN; Ted Turner's $1
>billion offer is larger than most governments').
>
>Jay Hanson's self-fulfilling prophecy may still turn out to be right.
>
>However, by breaking up this globalist tendency, the Y2K crisis
>exposes its weakness and creates the conditions for systemic
>transformation.
>
>Roberto Verzola
> 

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