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Rethinking Economies:
Materialism vs Whole-System Mapping
© Denise Breton and Christopher Largent. All Rights Reserved.
from The Soul of Economies

By Rethinking Our -

Material Mapping

Whole - System Mapping
 

Economic Reality

Economic Reality

Assumptions

 arrowf.gif (77 bytes) Scarcity: "unlimited desires"
competing for "limited resources"

Re: Monopoly Model, Defunct Malthusian Model		 arrowf.gif (77 bytes) Know-how and Creativity: Managing creatively what we have and using order to offset scarcity and evolve more efficient ways of doing things

Strategies

Economic Interaction

Economic Interaction
arrowf.gif (77 bytes) Maximizing Ownership of Things: arrowf.gif (77 bytes) Developing Systems of Exchange:

arrowf.gif (77 bytes) Land, Labor, and Capital

 arrowf.gif (77 bytes) What’s common:
Knowledge and Creativity
arrowf.gif (77 bytes) What’s Different:
Who owns What or Whom		 arrowf.gif (77 bytes) What’s different:
How we Develop and Use Knowledge

arrowf.gif (77 bytes) Hoarding Matter

arrowf.gif (77 bytes) Exchanging differences
arrowf.gif (77 bytes) One-Sided Gain
         (Win-Lose)		 arrowf.gif (77 bytes) Mutual Benefit
        (Win-Win)

Responses

 Regulatory Response Shaped by Belief in: Regulatory Response Shaped by Belief in:
arrowf.gif (77 bytes) A Dark End: human nature  as inevitably self-destructive, apocalyptic belief systems, a death- oriented cultural model arrowf.gif (77 bytes) The spectrum of human nature— in process and evolution of awareness and capabilities of the planet

arrowf.gif (77 bytes) Self-interest as Selfishness

arrowf.gif (77 bytes) Self-Betterment, enlightened by our relation to the collective good and the spiritual continuum of the universe

arrowf.gif (77 bytes) Competition, Bully Style

arrowf.gif (77 bytes) Cooperation
arrowf.gif (77 bytes) Domination of the many by the few; Suppression of knowledge, genocidal action arrowf.gif (77 bytes) Liberty as an Ideal to approximate through Inner and Spiritual Growth

Purposes

Goal for acting is:

Goal for acting is:
arrowf.gif (77 bytes) To maximize control/ownership
of economies by :		 arrowf.gif (77 bytes) To evolve economic systems of exchange by expanding them from :
Reducing them to fixed     quantities of matter matter
and Energy, to Energy
Controlling Information and to Information

Ignoring ideas and values

 to Consciousness and Ideas
which turns economies into
closed systems that run down and self destruct, preserving an elite social class of profiteers which deliberately restrict the evolution of society and the planet for personal gain.		 which works as a method for breaking through limits & pursuing unlimited possibilities in how we manage our “household” individually and as a planet.