GLOBAL STRATEGIC ALTERNATIVES FOR THE 21ST CENTURY?
COMMENTARY ARCHIVES, 3 Oct 2009
Contrasting Visual Caricatures
In addition to its obvious practical advantages, as noted, the final image offers a mnemonic composite as:
· a measure of size constraint in a population at risk of obesity, and a reminder of any constraining personal spare tire in a society challenged by excessive consumption
· a valuable reminder of the many empty stomachs in the world population (World Food Programme, Number Of World’s Hungry Tops A Billion, 19 June 2009).
· a reminder of the fundamental importance of the invention of the wheel in enabling the industrial revolution — in contrast to the constraining linearity characteristic of more traditional technologies and associated modes of governance, as caricatured by the other images (Engaging with Globality through Cognitive Circlets, 2009)
· a reminder of the fundamental cognitive challenge in the attraction of exploring holes — "down the rabbit hole" (Engaging with Globality through Knowing Thyself, 2009)
· a reminder of the mysteriously attractive reproductive process through which people are engendered and babies emerge — in a world challenged by overpopulation
· a reminder of the cognitive challenge of "emptiness" for governance, as notably symbolized by the flat jade disk with a circular hole — the bi — dating from ancient China and still held in the highest esteem (to the point of inspiring the design of the Olympic and Paralympic awards of 2008.
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