We are avoiding a certain troubling reality of globalization. This being the domination of coupling effects. That reality means, as a first step, that the power of balanced international decision making on virtually everything must outweigh that of national governments. In short, we require a true world government--not a cultural/political weapon for strong man, cartel manipulation--like the supposed "United Nations."



But this coupling is nonlinear--and as its strengthens, it enters into deterministic chaos. This means that a flat control of a single Internationale won't cut the mustard either eventually, but a completely fractal solution will be required--at all levels we must act as a round table.



Two general indicators or this is that influence is beginning to disperse from the "major powers" towards a fractal distribution multiple of nations, groups, and individuals. This leads to a "fractal basin" of influence on a global scale, and inevitably in unbalanced, the onset of deterministic chaos,



As well, large system, and certainly the globalization of Humanity is that, have failure statistics (the generalities become clearer as the control specifics turn to sand) approaching the Weibull distribution. Weibull discovered this in the 1930's, but it wouldn't be decades later that what he hid upon, independently as many other researchers early in the 20th century in different fields, was fractal geometry (his distribution is exactly the generic fractal one), which is the "phase-space orbit" of deterministic chaos. In short, to control failure without whole-scale replacement of failed units (i.e.--people, cities, provinces, countries, and whole regions! -- such module replacement cycles are how industry maintains large systems), one must establish a matching, balanced fractal sense & control system--a fractal swarm intelligence.



In equivalent situations, in nature's subsystems and its whole, this has been the path to successful communal evolution.



The central problem in doing what we must, is that we continue to ignore, or oversimplify our egos (just as we do with our economic problems). At grass roots, we need to work on educating ourselves--and our egos--towards the overriding necessity of integration. Then we need to move out on a deep campaign of improving basic human relations--from the personal up through the international.



Such thoughts seem very alien to us, frightening. How can we give up simplistic approaches that we can individually grasp, play the "experts" in. How to have the courage to seek out a fundamentally new approach, one where we ourselves--our very souls--are the objects of our "equations," and ultimate control and sense is of the whole of us--not a part, or even the sum of the parts?



Perhaps we should consider the retrospective of the Littlepeople character Haw, on p. 72 of Spencer Johnson's classic short work on dealing with necessary change, WHO MOVED MY CHEESE:



"He had to admit that the biggest inhibitor to change lies within yourself, and that nothing gets better until YOU change.



Perhaps most importantly, he realized that there is always New Cheese out there whether you recognize it or not. And you will be rewarded with it when you go past your fear and enjoy the adventure.



He knew that some fear should be respected as it can keep you out of real danger. But he realized most of his fears were irrational and had kept him from changing when he needed to.



He didn't like it at the time, but he knew that the change had turned out to be a blessing in disguise as it led him to find better Cheese.



He had even found a better part of himself."



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