- Jan 2024
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for: John Boik, societal design, whole system change, science-driven societal transformation
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description
- John Boik presents his theory of science-driven societal transformation that has a large cosmolocal component to it
- It's an elaboration of his earlier work at his https://principledsocietiesproject.org/ where, like the SRG/TPF and SoNeC project, sees the community as the fundamental buuilding block in society for mobilzing citizen-driven rapid whole system change.
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- Aug 2023
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the series really is a is a proposal for an rd r d program aimed at as new de novo development of new societal systems 00:45:54 and it's also a way to context and a way to think about what transformation might mean so uh it is it is a long-term project you know like a 50-year 00:46:07 project this isn't we're not it would be dangerous to change society radically overnight
- for: science-based societal transformation, whole system change, overnight change, 50 year project, radical change
- paraphrase
- this is not an overnight project
- radical change would be dangerous
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- the word "radical" is subjective here
- how does John view the latest earth system science about the need to reach zero emissions in less than a decade and likely 6 years in order to stay within 1.5 Deg C carbon budget?
- is that considered radical change or not?
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so here we go to number six why transform
- for: doughnut economics, climate change - societal impacts, whole system change - motivation
- question: why transform?
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- The word transformation is carefully chosen by John and here he explains why.
- We face an extreme and growing polycrisis that threatens to overpower our capacity to cope with it unless we act now for whole system transformation.
- Voices across all of society are becoming more vocal of the need to transform the existing system.
- This transformation program does not need everyone to participate, just a sufficient but small percentage of the population who are aligned to these ideas.
- Not everyone believes such transformation is necessary but the R+D project only needs to onboard a small percentage of the population who does believe to change the entire system for the benefit of even the non-believers.
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- John is implying social tipping points as well as social engineering
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these are the seven main thrusts of the series
- for: societal design, designing societies, societal architecture, transforming society, whole system change, SSO, social superorganism, John Boik
The seven main ideas for societal design: 1. societal transformation - is necessary to avoid catastrophe 2. the specific type of transformation is science-based transformation based on entirely new systems - de novo design - 3. A practical way to implement the transformation in the real world - it must be economical, and doable within the short time window for system change before us. - Considering a time period of 50 years for total change, with some types of change at a much higher priority than others. - The change would be exponential so starting out slower, and accelerating - Those communities that are the first to participate would make the most rapid improvements. 4. Promoting a worldview of society as a social superorganism, a cognitive organism, and its societal systems as a cognitive architecture. 5. Knowing the intrinsic purpose of a society - each subsystem must be explained in terms of the overall intrinsic purpose. 6. The reason for transformation - Transformation that improves cognition reduces the uncertainty that our society's intrinsic purpose is fulfilled. 7. Forming a partnership between the global science community and all the local communities of the world.
Tags
- 50 year project
- whole system change - motivation
- SSO
- climate change - societal impacts
- overnight change
- doughnut economics
- transforming society
- societal design
- systems thinking - societal design
- science-driven societal transformation
- seven main points
- designing society - evolutionary approach
- whole system change
- social superorganism
- 1.5 deg target
- societal design - evolutionary approach
- radical change
- cosmolocal
- cognitive organism
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This is an interesting article. It gives a historical perspective on a societal pattern in which technological changes lead to changes in architecture, which in turn changes how families and communities and societies changes.
The one thing they seem to have overlooked is the existence of a room called a "study". It was a thing, and now, perhaps, the "home office" will become the modern study.
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