The First Paradigm of Democracy is running on empty, particularly for developed democracies. As mature First Paradigm democracies begin to struggle to reinvent themselves, developing democracies can vicariously watch to discover what to avoid and what to do to develop their own Second Paradigm of Democracy without having to go through the completion of the first. Developing democracies in South America and Africa thoroughly appreciate what democracy provides to citizens and their societies, but have an aversion to broadly materialistic American lifestyles. They seek an answer to the question, “How do we develop our democracy without subverting our traditional family and community oriented way of life with the materialism of corporately dominated politics?”
For developing democracies, as South Africa, that are still plastic enough in their social, political and economic structures, the Second Paradigm of Democracy will offer a conscious process of embedding the values of social sustainability into their social, political and economic-financial policies and decision-making processes. After a century and a half of rapid social change, the public of well-developed democracies chafe at the intransigent nature of their political processes. They yearn for an evolving democratic process that seeks social, political and economic-financial fairness, versus the authority, control and power of corporately dominated politics. The struggle to enter the Second Paradigm of Democracy will not be without a great deal of misery for everyone as the public contends with their corporately dominated congresses and parliaments.
To be successful, such an evolutionary development for any democracy will require the creation of a holistic intention that consciously engages social change as the “cause” that initiates democratic evolution. Remarkably, because of the universal and timeless nature of the three core values of social sustainability, I speculate that such an intention for an evolving democracy would also be universally applicable to every other democracy. If that speculation proves to be true, then we could also speculate that there would develop a oneness among those democracies that allows for the unique interpretation of those values according to the evolutionary social maturity of those societies. But such speculation as that gets us too far into the future.
I have been asked by docile citizens, “When should we develop a new Vision and Intention for our democracy, and what evidence should we look for to know that it is the right time?” The time is now, before it is too late to reverse the tipping point of social, political and economic-financial disintegration. The evidence needed to develop a new Vision, Intention, Philosophy and Mission for the Second Paradigm lies behind the assumption that “everything is fine.” (Assumptions: See Posts 23, 24 and 48.)
For developing democracies, as South Africa, that are still plastic enough in their social, political and economic structures, the Second Paradigm of Democracy will offer a conscious process of embedding the values of social sustainability into their social, political and economic-financial policies and decision-making processes. After a century and a half of rapid social change, the public of well-developed democracies chafe at the intransigent nature of their political processes. They yearn for an evolving democratic process that seeks social, political and economic-financial fairness, versus the authority, control and power of corporately dominated politics. The struggle to enter the Second Paradigm of Democracy will not be without a great deal of misery for everyone as the public contends with their corporately dominated congresses and parliaments.
To be successful, such an evolutionary development for any democracy will require the creation of a holistic intention that consciously engages social change as the “cause” that initiates democratic evolution. Remarkably, because of the universal and timeless nature of the three core values of social sustainability, I speculate that such an intention for an evolving democracy would also be universally applicable to every other democracy. If that speculation proves to be true, then we could also speculate that there would develop a oneness among those democracies that allows for the unique interpretation of those values according to the evolutionary social maturity of those societies. But such speculation as that gets us too far into the future.
I have been asked by docile citizens, “When should we develop a new Vision and Intention for our democracy, and what evidence should we look for to know that it is the right time?” The time is now, before it is too late to reverse the tipping point of social, political and economic-financial disintegration. The evidence needed to develop a new Vision, Intention, Philosophy and Mission for the Second Paradigm lies behind the assumption that “everything is fine.” (Assumptions: See Posts 23, 24 and 48.)