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Enviro-Socio-Economics

  • Essentially all (if not all) world problems today are traceable to singular focus on financial profit to the exclusion of stewardship
  • A growth-based organism/species always shifts to fruition-based (cyclical/sustainable) behaviors, or kills itself by killing its environment … as a cancer
  • Consumption-based growth is the meme of singular focus on financial profit underlying all of capitalism
  • Hence, globalization of capitalism is globalization of consumption-based growth is a cancer on our planet
  • There are three things to do about this…
What to Do
  • Understand where we are and why/how we got here
  • Understand our alternatives at this point and the associated consequences
  • Choose the best alternative
Vision of past and current
  • Humans always seek/have sought opportunity and reason
  • Human choosing leads to groupings and leaders
  • Leaders can either be leaders of current, or of new, tradition
  • The first oppressive tradition was based in physical power
  • Capitalist leaders evolved to economic instead of physical oppression … economic power maximized physical potential while also offering restraints on the application of physical power
  • This evolution substantially replaced physical warring with economic warring … based on the competitive meme of consumption-based growth
Vision of future
  • Aikido – the art of peace – is also the art of fruition, or sustainable “growth”, which demands that consumption-based growth conform to cyclicity (net zero physical growth, which to achieve requires net positive growth in self-awareness and coherent intention).
  • Unrestrained leadership power (including consumption-based growth oriented leadership power) can only be subverted by Aikido leadership
  • Adolescent capitalism subverted feudalism by presenting a more powerful model that restrained the regressive powers of feudalism
  • Aikido capitalism must today be practiced to subvert adolescent capitalism by presenting the more powerful model of restraining the regressive powers of capitalism
… or we die (most and perhaps all) by killing our environment

Aikido Evolution

  • Life is the diffusion of (coherent) inspired choosing
  • More powerful models are more powerful life models, and so must diffuse more inspired choosing
  • Aikido leadership is always choosing less inspired choosing – but only to realize an objective of more inspired choosing – playing the game of current tradition and winning it in order to consciously (and coherently) evolve tradition
  • Subversive evolutionary change-makers are Aikido Activists
  • Physical-to-Economic Aikido Activism evolved feudalism (physical winning) to adolescent capitalism (economic winning)
  • Economic-to-Reasoned Aikido Activism is need to evolve adolescent capitalism to sustainable competition (reasoned winning)
Economic-to-Reasoned Aikido Activism
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