Power structure insight

Ideogram

This ideogram, which is different from the Power Structure ideogram, is expected to suggest the way of looking that makes all the difference – seeing the socio-cultural systems.

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A century ago the humanity's creativity, or innovation, was focused on the construction of machines. We now 'lift up our eyes' to the existence of much larger 'machines' – the socio-technical systems. And to the possibility to innovate on that scale.

The power structure insight is best described as three distinct insights.

The first of the three we've rendered as "The systems!" This paraphrase of Bill Clinton's 1992 successful presidential campaign slogan, "The economy, stupid!". It's not the economy. It's the systems! Once this is understood, the old political agendas fade into oblivion – and completely new ones emerge and come to the forefront. This insight suggests why the holotopia is "the new red"...

The second insight, rendered by the power structure keyword and ideogram is that the power structure should best be considered as combining power interests with our ideas and with our own condition of wholeness. The point is that the power interests can modify both.

The third insight is about the evolution of our institutions or socio-technical systems, or power structures: When guided by egocenteredness, or the "free competition", the power structures tend to evolve pathologically, as socio-cultural cancer...

The remedy here is systemic innovation – to innovate on the level of systems.

Imagine a bus without steering and braking controls, and with candle headlights. That's our democracy...

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