Warp and Weft of Future Governance
TRANSCEND MEMBERS, 16 Aug 2010
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service
Ninefold Interweaving of Incommensurable Threads of Discourse
Introduction
The challenge of interrelating seemingly incompatible threads of discourse in more fruitful ways was explored in an earlier paper (Interweaving Thematic Threads and Learning Pathways, 2010). As noted there, the thread metaphor had previously been developed by Jennifer Gidley (A Macrohistorical Planetary Tapestry: the fascinating integral narratives of Steiner, Gebser and Wilber, 2007) as part of her exploration of The Evolution of Consciousness as a Planetary Imperative (2007) . The question is how any such weaving relates to the challenges of global governance, notably as tentatively explored previously (Planetary Challenge of 12-fold Strategic Marriage, 2003; Warp and Weft: Governance through Alternation: world governance as a Gandhian challenge for the individual, 2002).
The purpose here is merely to point to the possibility of combining the threefold weaving explored by Gidley with the quite different weaving explored by Douglas Hofstadter (Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid, 1979). The implication this ninefold weaving responds to dimensions of the challenge of governance neglected by the two threefold weavings considered individually.
Ninefold interweaving of discourse
The argument is made most succinctly, if simplistically, by the following presentation — and the reflection it invites. The suggestion is that the pattern is necessarily not definitive buts is rather indicative of the kinds of qualities and complexity that may be necessary for fruitful integration — the requisite complexity for which knowledge cybernetics may call (Comprehension of Requisite Variety for Sustainable Psychosocial Dynamics, 2006). It of course makes use of the insights of contemporary authors although this does not preclude the possibility of an equivalent pattern based on the earlier authors to which each may also refer.
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