As the world cycles in and out of lockdowns, pandemic levels and recovery stimuli, new webs are emerging through building, rebuilding, reconnecting and weaving systemic connections that seem to indicate a distinguishing impact of the global pandemic involves recalibrating worldwide interconnections. How does Gaia respond when fundamental boundaries are crossed that result in ill [...]
The four quadrant perspectival map of reality (bio-psycho-cultural-social) can be shape-shifted into a nested holarchy of city holons. This scalar fractal map shows the relationship amongst the micro, meso and macro human systems at multiple levels of scale from the individual to the family/group, organization, sector, community, city, eco-region and the world. Integral intelligence looks at [...]
Further to my blog from Feb. 23, the National Post runs a most informative analysis by Chip Pitts of Stanford Law School and National Post's Aileen Donnelly entitled Ripe for Revolt? Who Might Fall. Their analysis not only takes into account the internet users, but also cell phones in the countries of North Africa and [...]
Revolution is spreading through the north African and Middle Eastern countries - the inflammation has started in cities and spreads to other cities. Why are these cities the nodes of contagion? I can't help notice that all these cities (and nations) were on Thomas Barnett's New Map in 2004. He included them in his proposition [...]