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The new structure of the human system This text completes and specifies the previous
published on www.unigov.org and
its linked sites. Particularly all those regarding the structure of the
complex systems such as the human one and the effects stemming from them. I
will try to synthesize at best the concepts, the strategies and the praxis to
follow. The problems of the complex systems can only be faced in a complex
way. One can simplify at his/her best but no more than that. Unfortunately the prevailing forces of the human
system have tried to slow down the progressive process of complexity by
injecting complications. This has been wanted to limit the attractive effect
of perturbations (butterfly effect) and the self-organization capability, two
of the complex systems properties, to make the system more resilient. Although this injection of complications has made
the system stronger it has made its structure more vulnerable. That means
that humanity in its complex today is able to adapt better than before to
environment conditions and that its structure can be modified more easily and
adequated to necessities not just by the whole humanity but also by each one
of the subjects part of it. The human been and its necessities To live and develop we must satisfy needs. We have
six levels of needs. In natural priority order we need air, water, food,
sleep, sex, clothes and health[1], then shelter, safety and protection[2], then belonging and love[3], then self-esteem and acknowledgment[4], then freedom, autonomy and independence[5] and last to achieve our identity, ourselves[6]. An unsatisfied need induces to concentrate
motivational energies towards the paths addressed to satisfy that need
preventing to access the higher needs of the scale. The missed satisfaction
of physiological essential needs causes sufferance and illness and prevents
the satisfaction of other necessities. Without safety there is no love.
Without love you can’t feel self-esteem. Without self-esteem you can’t
achieve freedom. Without freedom you can’t achieve your own self. The priority depends on our specific nature: the
human being is first of all a living being, then an animal, then an evolved
animal and last the most evolved animal. So, as all other living beings,
vital necessities come first, then the typical animal necessities, then the
typical necessities of evolved animals and at last the particular necessities
stemming from being the most evolved of the animals. Following the natural order of priorities and with
minimum resources, each one of us can satisfy one’s own necessities compared
to personal ability. But. Often, necessities manifest themselves in a
priority order different from the natural one. We could call it artificial
order. The cause is the way each one of us perceives as effect of the
interaction of the individual phenotype with the others and the environment.
In its turn, the way one perceives and deduces depends on the kind of
personal genotype inherited. The artificial priority order in which necessities
manifest themselves is one of the main causes of our uneasiness and our
limits. By inverting the natural priority order, we refuse our nature and
give up our maximum evolution. The effects can be more or less serious depending
on the kind of inversion. If one tries to achieve oneself before satisfying
the need for freedom, he/she will cause her/his own dependence and
oppression. If one goes for self-esteem and acknowledgement before love
causes his-her own isolation. If one looks for love before safety he/she
causes phobias. If one searches for safety before water, food, sleep and
health, he/she will suffer physically. The more the distance between
artificial priorities and natural priorities the more the uneasiness. The mind reacts to the effects caused by the
inversion of the necessity priorities with self-persuasion. One can persuade
him/herself to survive after physical death, not to have fear, to be able to
live without love, to have won and be free. But illusion doesn’t bring the
achievement of oneself. This doesn’t mean self-persuasion is negative itself.
Indeed, to believe being able to do what one considers right and useful
strengthens one’s own determination both in acting and in resisting
obstacles. But there’s a difference between self-persuasion of being able to
satisfy one’s own necessities following the natural priority order and that
deriving from the artificial order. In the first case, the individual will is in
harmony with one’s own nature and with the environment: such allows the
maximum possible individual evolution. In the second case, will is in
contrast wit one’s own proper nature and often also with the environment:
such causes a suspension or interruption of one’s own individual development
if not even an involution. The human system and its structure Humanity is a complex system with a hierarchical
structure. It therefore has all the features of the complex systems and of
the hierarchies. Being a complex system, its formed by many parts
interacting in a non-linear way and is in a dynamic unstable balance. The
redundance of the parts assures strong resilience and great self-organizing
ability. Having a hierarchical structure, the valence of the
parts depends on the level they sit on: each part represents the whole system
compared to the parts on the lower levels, while it only represents itself
compared to the parts sitting on the higher levels. This structure formed its
self as effect of the rule of selection, made possible by the high level of
redundance. The situation of humanity and its causes Beginning from the agricultural revolution until a
few decades ago, the overall situation of the human system could have been
analyzed and evaluated according just to the conditions of its parts, i.e.
the whole of the human beings. Now, the development level of the productive
forces and the level of consumption set the necessity of analyzing the human
system together with its environment. Meaning to analyze nowadays human
condition regarding the limitedness of natural resources and the effects of
their employment on the ecologic system. Human conditions are known. A quarter of us use
three quarters the natural resources of the planet. The economic system is
based on the exploitation of labor, i.e. on the difference between the
exchange value of produced goods and services and the overall value the work
necessary to produce them is recognized. The level of production, i.e. the
quantity of products, doesn’t depend on the relation with social needs but on
profit. Currency doesn’t represent real existing goods or services but goods
and services that will be produced in future and, therefore, the work
necessary to produce them. Finance doesn’t represent the resources necessary
to produce but non-existing values through which fictitious profits are
obtained, not rising from work but from speculative operations through which
currencies are swapped with other ones or with stock stemming from
fundamental factors of real economy. It’s know that natural resources, the raw materials
able to transform in product and above all in energy (except from the solar
one) used to produce, are limited. All fossil and nuclear combustibles are
becoming exhausted and its prices are rising constantly. In a short time
we’ll be without carbon, oil, natural gas and uranium. If the current
consumption of the better off quarter of us were extended to all the
inhabitants of the planet, all natural resources would become exhausted in a
few decades. At the same time, we also know the conditions of
the environment and the impact of human nature on the whole planet. Our
ecological footprint overcomes already one fifth the sustainability of the
planet and the predictable increase in consumption of the inhabitants of the
developing countries (two billion inhabitants live in Russia, Brazil, China
and India) is accelerating rapidly the level of unsustainability. The evaluation of the analysis of the human system
condition and of the condition of the environment is highly negative.
Therefore, we can’t just talk systemic crisis of humanity but of global
intersystemic crisis involving human beings and the nature they are part of.
This reality is perceived but not yet recognized. This crisis originated, as
all the previous ones, by the structure of the human system and the lack of
conscious gaining regarding our relation with nature makes it even worse.
Such double negative condition causes the way of perception giving rise to
the artificial order in which problems manifest themselves. The original
causes are therefore structural, meaning they depend on the solution adopted
to solve previous problems. This crisis appears as the worst since the
existence of human being. Its defects can be catastrophic for the whole
humanity and could involve the whole planet. To avoid it we must adopt
solutions to face and solve the negative effects of the previous solutions
(the current problems) and at the same time to modify the structure all the
previous solutions rised from. The new structure of the human system The new structure must be transformed from
hierarchy in conarchy. That means to eliminate the levels determining the
double valence of parts and establish a unique path for organic functions,
where every human being has one role and one valence set aside the level
he/she sits on but according to its necessities, propensions and real
abilities. Since it’s life than determines conscience and not
the opposite, and since life depends on material conditions, the new
structure must first of all everyone to live and be able to gain conscience
of reality. And, since material conditions depend on economic relations, the
solution to adopt must affect the current production relations. The most appropriate form to affect the current
production relations is the direct participation of workers to the management
of the enterprises. That means make the workers take part to the risks and
results of economic activities. All wealth will have to be reallocated to
make the new form rise, by disconnecting legal tender currency from real
economy and substituting the legal tender currencies devoid of any value with
a currency guaranteed by capitals of productive enterprises, i.e. by already
performed work, which represents the future work necessary to produce goods
and services with which the new currency will be swapped: a currency
guaranteed by existing real value, issued on behalf of those who undertake to
perform future work and divided in equal parts among all the adult
inhabitants of the planet. With this new form of economy, the production level
is free from profit connecting to real social necessities and programs itself
following the natural priority order of needs. Since the kind of economic
relations, as social relation, represents the prevailing condition of social
relation, all the other human manifestations (juridical, political,
spiritual, religious, scientific, artistic and philosophic) will have to
adapt progressively to the new form of production relations determining a new
social consciousness. A new ecological conscience will rise from the new
economic form and the new social form, for example by eliminating wastes and
respecting natural environment, and, therefore, for the first time, an
intersystemic conscience, not just a global consciousness but also universal. How to make the new structure rise The process for the transformation of production
relation forms can be certified by natural science and history. But how to
provoke the new process? The discrepancy between the development level of the
production forces and productive relations isn’t enough. The condition seven
or eight inhabitants of the planet out of ten are in isn’t enough. No typical
social formation of the previous system has ever caused a revolution. Not
even the most disadvantaged classes. At most, they rebelled. The classes of every system have always formed in
the previous system and rotate round the principles of the system they are
part of, even so it doesn’t involve self-inflicted damaging. Neither the
farmers nor the officials of the castes of Asiatic societies, neither the
slaves nor free citizens of anti-abolitionist societies, neither the nobles
nor the servants of feudal societies, neither the proletarian nor the
capitalist of the middle class have ever promoted a revolution. Each new
system is born by the action of a new class formed from the previous system.
The modification of the structure of the human system and the destiny of
humanity therefore depend on a new social formation that is born in the
current system and takes advantage from the discrepancies between level of
development of the productive forces and economic relations better than the
classes formed in the previous systems. Substantially, what’s new rises from
the exhaustion and decline of the old but under the push of who evolves in
the old system. So, the solution to real problems and the
transformation of the structure of the system can be only under the
initiative of the new social formation adopting production relations based on
the direct participation of workers to the management of enterprises and the
work currency. It’s a historic process that can’t be triggered by groups even
if much bigger than one or some countries indeed by an important part of the
inhabitants of all the countries, which will have to prove that the solutions
adopted aren’t just valid for one country but for every human being. The new
formation will therefore be global, meaning it rises and develops on every
part of the planet, and will have to propose universal solutions, i.e. valid
for every human being. September 24, 2008. Rodolfo Marusi Guareschi
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