Global Systems
= Concept from Peter Pogany: "self-organizing thermodynamic dissipative structures that have come to exist on a global level"> [1]
Discussion
David MacLeod, introducing Pogany:
- "“Each global system creates its characteristic behavior, connected with a lexicon, a socioeconomically induced emotional profile, an ethic, a Weltanschauung, and a mentality. These are physically ‘imprinted’ in brains and endure roughly as long as the global system does.”
When the system declines in its ability to meet current life conditions, chaotic transitions come into play. The collective mind begins searching for the blueprint for the next stable condition.
In regards to the title of the book, “Rethinking the World,” Pogany writes:
- “From the point of view of the world as a whole, the multiple, simultaneous efforts to determine meanings produced confusion. The world was thinking amidst its self-destructive systemlessness; it was rethinking itself…
“Macrohistory suggests that only a new global transformation will be able to clear the road for a future that does not roll out the red carpet to cultural devolution. What gives us pause is that, if it took “1914-1945″ (circa 70 million dead, many millions maimed, and the hardships of the Great Depression) to move the world from the most primitive form of socioeconomic self-organization to a more ordered one (a relatively minor qualitative adjustment), it staggers the imagination to contemplate what it might entail to go from ‘here’ to the ‘world-as-self.’ (p. 182-183).”
(https://daviddmacleod.substack.com/p/drifting-toward-a-new-form-of-self)