Hazel Henderson’s Paradigms in Progress

2. Hazel Henderson’sParadigms in Progress Why Economics is NOT the Answer & In Fact Is Part of the Problem

3. OR Can One Read This Book And Avoid Feeling Depressed and Suicidal Long Enough to Save the World?

4. Henderson’s Themata • Changes Exist in the Way People View How the World Operates - Societally and Ecologically • Descarte Was Wrong - His Ideals Called for Removing (factory) Production from Homes & Villages to Cities - thus Forever Splitting Communities and Families

5. Three Zones of Transition • Breakdown • Bifurcation • Breakthrough (If we are lucky)

6. What’s Happening??? As the “Cold War” concluded, new scorecards for evaluating Progress and Success have had to be created: A New World Order Centralized forces of Industrialism Forces Decentralized Nationally & Locally

7. Global Inter-dependence • Shifting Policy Research • Shifting Tools for Evaluation • Paradigm Shifts

8. Revisiting System Thinking Stable, Equilibrating System Unstable Dis-Equilibrium System

9. “Marginalize the Non-Cartesians” • Historical and Present “Evaluation Tools” focus on macroeconomic models • These tools are obsolete vis global equity and human development • These tools ignore, push aside, or crush, those who do not conform to industrialization models for “success” {mass production, etc.}

10. Why Marginalize the Marginals? • They reject ideologies of “modernization” be it for : • Religious reasons • Cultural grounds • Common sense

11. People Learn Faster than Institutions • In fact, Institutions • Rigidify • Resist until Brittle • Stagnate • Decay • BREAKDOWNZone 1

12. Fibrillation/Bifurcation Zone (#2) • Flip-Flopping - A Stage of Shifting States • Individuals • Organizations • Societies • Must Make Choices • Nearing Thresholds • Pushing Against Boundary Conditions • Action Is Required

13. Zone 2 A Time for Re-Thinking • Reconceptualize • Remap Goals • Take Risks • Challenge Established Institutions • Challenge Old Truths • Yields • More/Better Good News • More/Worse Bad News

14. Extracting Understanding in Zone #2 • Media Analysts CANNOT Simply Report Events • INTERPRETATION Is Everything! • The Information Age Leads to More Ambivalence

15. The Breakthrough Zone • The 1960’s and ‘70’s • And Again in the 1990’s • New Compacts Among Nations • Global efforts to Clean the Environment Begun • Food, Health, Education • Renewable Energy Resources • New Sensitivities for Diversity and Cultural Richness

16. The Breakthrough A Concrete Vision of Planetary Identity

17. “We are a very young species - in terms of our planets development, and we have in our very brief history, learned a great deal. As long as we refuse to panic or despair, we may yet learn the lessons of globalization now upon us” Robert Muller UN Asst. Sec. General 1984

18. More Breakthroughs • The Politics of Reconceptualization • Exit Single Disciplines • Enter Global Trans-Disciplinary Policy Tools • Post-economics policy studies • Technology Assessment • Environmental Impact Statements • Future Studies • Scenario Building • Cross-Impact Analysis • Risk Assessments

19. Newtonian Views Remain US Social Policy still using outmoded data sets Economic Statistics ignore world trade flows Economic modeling cannot adjust for the newest commodity -INFORMATION A New Paradigm Emergence of planetary paradigms Cultural Identities Sustainable Resources & Production Renewable Resouces The Breakthrough is Not Yet Done

20. “ Slow-Motion Good News” Zone 3 Is Can’t Be Captured in Sound Bites, or 30 second Commercial Breaks Is More Important Than Our Photo-Op Journalism Allows

21. Mass Media Is the Nervous System for the new Body-Politic of the Human Family It Must Reduce General Stress Levels and Panic Reactions, & Amplify Our Knowledge of Healthy Choices Available to Humankind

22. By Flattening Hierarchies and Empowering Citizens in Our Global Village, we can Step Beyond the Dis-Information [Propaganda] of our Media-Dominated Environment. Mere Information has Simply Lead to an Overload of Ever-Less Meaningful Bits of Fragmented Raw Data, Rather Than the Search for Meaningful New Patterns of Knowledge

23. When we Fully Appreciate How Much all of Our Human Technologies Imitate Nature, we may then use the Earth More Consciously to show us the Best Way Forward, into a New Ecologically Compatible, Humanly Sensitive Model of “Development”

24. The Logic of Emerging “Post-Cartesian” Science Will transcend Objectivity and Dualism. It will be Based on Self-Referential, Auto-poetic Logic -- Producing an Honest Science Where the Role and Impact of the Observer is Acknowledged as Affecting the Phenomena.

25. How? It is not about Competition or Cooperation. Both are Required. FromFeedback, we know both are Vital Strategies for Success. As we Utilize Feedback, we can Create Win-Win Games, and Continue to Change the Game, Writing New Rules as Needed.

26. Become Multi-Disciplinary Observe: Anthropological Data Sociological Data Ecological Data Look Beyond the Numbers Observe Indicators of Societal Progress