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This is great. I have demonstrated that cultural evolution, being a purposeful system, does contain the AIC relationships. In a very sketchy outline - our need for survival in different starting conditions produced the three major global culture types
- cold countries - white people - struggle against the environment (nature), therefore control centered orientation.
- Africa hot climate - dark skin, primary survival problem not its beneficent environment but the people over the hill - therefore relationships - or influence oriented.
- Asians - long trek from Africa to the Arctic, Americas and Asia - group cohesion - therefore appreciation.
(This insight is based on the work of Edward J Nicholls of the Institute of Mental Health)
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Human cultural evolution can be seen as the need to integrate all three. America, is then not a bounded country, but a global cultural happening in which we have an appreciative part on the West Coast, an influence part in the South and a control part on the East Coast (By serendipity ??? I have three children, one in each part and they are Eurasian). Even though America has an overlay of a controlling culture because of its white origins, it has become the influence centre for global cultural development.
We have to live up to this by taking a global perspective in everything we do.
This integration will take place as we have evolved forms of appreciative governance (this is often achieved on a small scale but not yet on a large scale. Susan Turnbull's efforts in a very control-centered department of government are a micro version of what appreciative centered governance at large could achieve)
The developed countries are still struggling to understand influenced centered governance - hence our imperfect democracy, overly influenced by the privileged.
The National project, along with the current interest in Spirituality, is another sign of the emergence of the appreciative centered level - the true democracy of knowledge shared appreciatively - will provide a basis for appreciative centered governance.
Bill
William E. Smith PhD www.odii.com