12/09/07
Below are the first statements issued by myself and David Braden of Whole System Design They may not be in order and not well fitted to the frames due to the fact that I copied and pasted them in but they are here on record for reasons noted elsewhere on the Website.
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Author: Randy K. Pruitt
Date: 7/27/2007 1:03 am EDT
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David,
Thanks for stopping in and a warm welcome and as you noted there is much to do and indeed many roads to consider looking ahead and certainly the physical economic structure or the substance of which that supports our civilization given the growing population is one area that deserves maybe the greatest care and attention.
I look forward to a continuing planetary debate and we are all in on this together.
Regards,
Randy
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Author: Randy K. Pruitt
Date: 7/3/2007 8:48 pm EDT
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Hello there one and all,
I am saying hello and welcoming you aboard a continuum in the human condition known as our world's our specie's our civilization's very own would be up and coming Field of Human Endeavor aptly called Planetary Development - Our Own. Please feel free to discuss both the great and small issues of our world but please do so with respect.
All my love and respect,
Randy K. Pruitt
The Founder
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Author: David Braden
Date: 7/26/2007 11:39 pm EDT
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Randy,
I'm sure that I do not understand the Clond but I do like the direction of your thought. I have been working on describing a way of viewing things:
In this view, we focus on how one thing is connected to another thing and how all things are systems. There are energetic systems, gravitational systems, living systems and conscious systems - with each type of system being emergent from the pre-existing system.
Nothing exists except for its connections within the "system" and ultimately, there is only one "whole system".
In a living system, if a species loses its bridges to the flow of nutrients through the system it becomes extinct. New bridges within the system create new niches for which new species can evolve. In this way every ecosystem is in either an upward spiral, stable or a downward spiral. We say that a species must "fit" within the ecosystem in order to survive.
Conscious systems emerge from living systems (and we should also remember that humans must also "fit" within the ecosystem). The subsystem currently coming to primacy within our conscious system is called the "market". The market is a great system for what it does - but it has limitations in the number and type of bridges that it allows.
There is not a corporate conspiracy to oppress the poor and destroy nature. Rather, in the market, that which cannot be exploited for a profit and those who do not have "marketable skills" simply have no use. Those things are in danger of losing (or have lost) their bridges to "the system".
That is why I am excited about the possibilities for the future. The set of potential bridges that could be made approaches infinity. Creating new bridges makes "the system" more complex, making possible even more bridges.
We need not think in terms of what is wrong with the existing system. We can think in terms of what additional bridges are needed to create an increasingly inclusive economy and an increasingly healthy ecosystem.
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Author: Randy K. Pruitt
Date: 7/3/2007 8:48 pm EDT
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Hello there one and all,
I am saying hello and welcoming you aboard a continuum in the human condition known as our world's our specie's our civilization's very own would be up and coming Field of Human Endeavor aptly called Planetary Development - Our Own. Please feel free to discuss both the great and small issues of our world but please do so with respect.
All my love and respect,
Randy K. Pruitt
The Founder
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