hierarchies and holarchies

In the olde worlde story hierarchy described the structure of society ... replacing the prelapsarian rural idyll ... and ripe for its own replacing with holarchy ... most likely not the ultimate structure, but a necessary reshaping for current times ...

In this version of the story, hierarchy stemmed from the separation of homo-sapiens from Nature, the sense of separate selves ... the biblical Fall from Grace produced an all powerful God, to represent the transcendent element of humans, then the smarter types enlisted the stronger types to order the rest of us into cataegories, to organise society for their own benefit. The Divine Right to Rule of Kings, Queens and Popes follows from this arrangement, which has continued with different names for the Players ... Kings - Subjects, Landowners - Serfs, Capitalists - Proletarians ... and parallel hierarchies of Power, often slightly out of synch with the more transparent, much lauded illusion of pseudo-democracy ... this itself losing its power as voting numbers decline over time ... in many local elections in the DUK turnout is less than a third of eligible voters ... maybe the two thirds declining the democratic offer should prevail and have no representative ... perhaps a rebate on the cost saved ... anyway, the reality of Power beyond the periodic sham electoral process is becoming increasingly clear ... to engage with it is to validate it ... the anarchists say: Don't vote, it only encourages them! Whoever "they" are ... not "us" perhaps ... at least on this level of the game ...

The holarchy is a better description of hierarchy in the New Earth Story ... nestled holons, where each part contains the whole ... in social and political terms this removes the inherent inequality of existing hierarchies and reflects the peer to peer networks appearing as the possibilities of interactive internet make vertical models redundant ... and nation states or supra-nation states ... mirroring the illuminati vision of a New World Order ... similar seeming, but quite the opposite ... the location of Power the key indicator ...

So, an organic system, from the ground up and out ... new models trialled, connecting with each other ... attention fully focused on what we dream of ... the desperate power games held in broader awareness, but not energised by our attention ... all of it provisional, work in progress ... including this attempt to describe what may be going on ... not so much a bigger brain that's required, just collaboration from other hearts and minds on the same frequency ... maybe tomorrow and the weekend at Brockwood Park!