More Concise Story of Aikido Evolution via Aikido Activism

topic posted Tue, January 11, 2005 - 1:23 PM by  Spidey
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Enviro-Socio-Economics

All world problems today are traceable to singular focus on financial profit to the exclusion of stewardship

A growth-based organism/species always shifts to fruition-based (cyclical/sustainable) behaviors, or kills itself by killing its environment … as a cancer

Consumption-based growth is the meme of singular focus on financial profit underlying all of capitalism

Hence, globalization of capitalism is globalization of consumption-based growth is a cancer on our planet

There are three things to do about this…


What to Do

Understand where we are and why/how we got here

Understand our alternatives at this point and the associated consequences

Choose the best alternative


Vision of past and current

Humans always seek/have sought opportunity and reason

Human choosing leads to groupings and leaders

Leaders can either be leaders of current, or of new, tradition

The first oppressive tradition was based in physical power

Capitalist leaders evolved to economic instead of physical oppression … economic power maximized physical potential while also offering restraints on the application of physical power

This evolution substantially replaced physical warring with economic warring … based on the competitive meme of consumption-based growth


Vision of future

Aikido – the art of peace – is also the art of fruition, or sustainable “growth”, which demands that consumption-based growth conform to cyclicity (net zero physical growth, which to achieve requires net positive growth in self-awareness and coherent intention).

Unrestrained leadership power (including consumption-based growth oriented leadership power) can only be subverted by Aikido leadership

Adolescent capitalism subverted feudalism by presenting a more powerful model that restrained the regressive powers of feudalism

Aikido capitalism must today be practiced to subvert adolescent capitalism by presenting the more powerful model of restraining the regressive powers of capitalism
… or we die (most and perhaps all) by killing our environment


Aikido Evolution

Life is the diffusion of (coherent) inspired choosing
More powerful models are more powerful life models, and so must diffuse more inspired choosing

Aikido leadership is always choosing less inspired choosing – but only to realize an objective of more inspired choosing – playing the game of current tradition and winning it in order to consciously (and coherently) evolve tradition

Subversive evolutionary change-makers are Aikido Activists
Physical-to-Economic Aikido Activism evolved feudalism (physical winning) to adolescent capitalism (economic winning)

Economic-to-Reasoned Aikido Activism is need to evolve adolescent capitalism to sustainable competition (reasoned winning)


Economic-to-Reasoned Aikido Activism

A work in progress viewable at aikidoactivism.xwiki.com/
posted by:
Spidey
SF Bay Area