I agree with you that "This is quite mad." But I disagree it is only Annan. We are under a global leadership vacuum, meaning we sorely need global leaders and all we have are global administrators of an unsustainable world.



Is it true that "Annan's legacy is the UN 'Sustainable Development Goals'."? In the recent Singularity University Global Summit of 2018, David Roberts of Singularity University said "Why is my WORLD not 10x better? The @UN has disrupted itself but there’s no one that takes #Responsibility & #Accountability"? As you will see next the UN has not disrupted itself.



My response is based on an emerging vocabulary as a result of using mainly the Heuristic (lessons learned) Methodology of Systems Architecting. If you go a bit deep into my first comment here, you will see that the UN 'Sustainable Development Goals' were developed by consensus under the Simplistic Globalization Model being used by economist of The Wealth of Nations, when they should be developed to help emerge institutional innovations under the Updated Global Conceptual Model of The Wealth of Globalization.



Having said that, please consider the Aug 22, 2018 article “How to Prevent Winner-Takes-All Democracy, by KAUSHIK BASU. In one of your very valuable comments, on Aug 23, 2018, you wrote that ” In this field, as elsewhere, 'the best' is the enemy of 'the good' and talk of morality is the enemy of ethical pragmatics.” Next I repeat my selective response to you under that article where I only wrote one comment.



In the third paragraph of my comment, which you can consider as a thought experiment, I wrote “This time I am questioning if the EcoNoMy science that centers its attention on The Wealth of Nations, might need to help emerge the EcoIsOurs profession, like Engineering has grown into Systems Architecting, to center the attention into The [W]ealth of Globalization, which give the opposite understanding on the meaning for the heuristic “'the best' is the enemy of 'the good‘.” That opposite understanding to favor ‘the best’ is due to the Computing Big Shift that enables us to approximate to the Third Degree of Clarity given that the Printing Big Shift is limited to the Second Degree of Clarity.