Toward Individual, Regional, Oneness?
They are getting ready for the next round of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Global business and government leaders gathering inside and globalization protesters gathering outside. Global and Anti-Global, each giving energy, support and meaning to the other. The universe in balance?
So often it seems that here in Chicago and elsewhere organizers talk of countering Globalization with activities like Local and Regional buying campaigns. And always, it seems, these Local and Anti-Global efforts are organized with and literally embody, the very Corporate, hierarchical Dominance and Control patterns that they usually seek to bring down. Thus, the more they try, the more they make more of what they want to overcome, Defeat or displace.
Meanwhile, Don Iannone asks “why is regionalism so difficult in economic development?” and ChrisCorrigan quotes fellow Bowen Islander JohnDumbrille: “…we have to change – I do not think that books are enough or 3 hours of homework in grade 10 are enough, cramming for college entrance is enough, college specializaiton is enough. We cant outrun a train. We have to adapt… Children have to be raised to be independent enough psychologically to be entrepreneurial… “
Recently, I’ve been thinking that Local is not really the ultimate counter to global and Globalization. It’s not simply about smaller geographic circles. It’s about how we make decisions. And it seems that individual identity, awareness, responsibility, decision-making and purchasing is the only effective way to balance and Inspire an incorporated, globalized movement that supports all Life. Awake Individual balances a Global Corporate that must ultimately seek to deliver highest goods, union, wholeness, Oneness. Local is just a convenient point on the spectrum that runs from individual and must also extend beyond Global to some sort of God or Higher Good.
As a result, Local efforts that take on Corporate decision-making and control structures will necessarily fail to invite, support and value the individually-arising and -determined learning, contribution, decision-making and action that are the only effective counter-balance (and support) for continued globalization. So following from my last posting, my guess is that only as we learn to make, unmake and remake our individual personal identities and decision-making structures, we will be able to leverage these skills to make and remake larger, stronger, and more flexible Regional identities, as circumstances require. OpenSpaceTech seems especially useful for all of this.
Ultimately it seems that we just might be in the process of moving from a dualistic, Local-Global world to a trinitarian Individual-(shifting)Regional-Oneness world. Individual being smaller than local, and oneness (God) being the ultimate goal of our global coming together. Full implementation is likely to take a while. In the meantime, perhaps ChrisCorrigan will say something about the musical properties and pleasures associated with the interplay of two-beat and three-beat rhythms.