(This is the third and final guest blog post by Bill Parker from his paper titled “The Human Community Network: An Experimental Community.”)
What follows is a chart that lays out the Human Community Faces of Systemic Transformation. There are three components to this transformation consisting of:
- the transition to a re-generative form of capitalism which is designed to eliminate economic corruption, correct the level of worker equity, reclaim lost human resources, and reframe ecological innovations.
- the establishment of effective civic engagement which is achieved through engaging and networking local citizenry, equipping emerging generations of leaders, initiating institutional reformulation, and interconnecting networks of movements.
- the re-imagination of our diverse social fabric that is recovered in the total public education mission, recovered mission of the faith communities, and the recognized interdependency of all faith traditions in an environment of peace, plus socially and ecologically grounded academic curriculum in universities.
It is necessary for each Face to have certain processes within it to develop a strategy for:
- Ecological responsibility targeted for an effective systemic resolve which will unite the forces of transformation,
- Develop models and designs for systemic change,
- Initiate citizen awakenment and engagement,
- Focus on art in multiple forms to take the new framework for society to the emotional fulfilling levels for sustainability.
These factors are an essential part of each Face in order to address the human-centered externalities. Comprehensiveness is the most effective method for addressing the unintended consequences of a given direction. It is a matter of extreme importance that all involved understand the basic non-violence and non-cooperative resistance tenets and practices. These tenets and practices are disciplines needed to face the uncertain realities that may arise and to illustrate the peaceful nature of the interdependent human community.
THE FACES OF SYSTEMIC ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION: A NEW ECONOMIC PROCESS FOR THE 21ST CENTURY
I. TRANSITION TO A RE-GENERATIVE FORM OF CAPITALISM
a. ERADICATE ECONOMIC CORRUPTION
SYMBOLIC OF THE PROBLEM: WEALTH CONSOLIDATION
- Define Corporation Limits
- Redesign Community Banking
- Redirect Corporate Welfare
- Review Ethical Networks
b. ESTABLISH WORKER EQUITY
SYMBOLIC OF THE PROBLEM: UNDER REPRESENTATION
- Rejuvenate Worker Organizations
- Re-focus Professional Guilds
- Re-establish Cooperative Networks
- Integrate Wealth Participation
c. RECLAIM LOST HUMAN RESOURCES
SYMBOLIC OF THE PROBLEM: PRIVATE FOR-PROFIT PRISONS
- Ensure Comprehensive Health Care
- Reconstitute Prisoner Rehabilitation
- Abolish Human Trafficking and Slavery
Redefine Drug Rehabilitation Methods
d. REFRAME ECOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS
SYMBOLIC OF THE PROBLEM: REDUCED SCALE
- Establish Sustainable Residential Practices
- Develop Sustainable Business Network Systems
- Expand Transportation Energy Alternatives
- Demonstrate Local and Organic Food Viability
THE FACES OF SYSTEMIC CIVIC TRANSFORMATION: A NEW POLITICAL PROCESS FOR THE 21ST CENTURY
II. ESTABLISH EFFECTIVE CIVIC ENGAGEMENT
a. ENGAGE AND NETWORK LOCAL CITIZENRY
SYMBOLIC OF THE PROBLEM: DEMORALIZED SELF IMAGE
- Empower local voices
- Initiate Inter-faith Youth Service
- Formulate Local Comprehensive Development
- Transform Localized Institutional Response
b. PREPARE EMERGING GENERATION LEADERS
SYMBOLIC OF THE PROBLEM: BUSINESS PARADIGM
- Broaden Ethnic Leadership Formation
- Reframe Civic Leadership Pedagogy
- Integrate Principles of Organizational Effectiveness
- Expand Methods for Secular Activists
c. INITIATE INSTITUTIONAL REFORMULATION
SYMBOLIC OF THE PROBLEM: STRUCTURAL STAGNATION
- Re-contextualize Government Function
- Recover Public Civic Education
- Interlink Civic Associations
- End Unfair Corporate Influences
d. INTERCONNECT NETWORK OF MOVEMENTS
SYMBOLIC OF THE PROBLEM: MISSIONAL SEGMENTATION
- Establish a Democratic Participation Method
- Connect Activists Engagement Systems
- Integrate Service Sector Focus
- Bring Intentionality to Informal Social Networks
THE FACES OF SYSTEMIC CULTURAL TRANSFORMATION: A NEW CULTURAL PROCESS FOR THE 21ST CENTURY
III. RE-IMAGINATION OF THE DIVERSE SOCIAL FABRIC
a. TOTAL PUBLIC EDUCATION – Student Focused
SYMBOLIC OF THE PROBLEM: TEST DRIVEN TEACHING
- Recover the Teacher Vocation
- Re-establish the Learning Environment
- Intensify Civics Curriculum
- Focus on Early Child Development
b. FAITH BASED INSTITUTIONS – Recovered Missional Focus
SYMBOLIC OF THE PROBLEM: INSTITUTIONALISM
- Enable Laity Understanding of their Faith
- Equip Clergy With Methods
- Integrate Focus of Faith Institutions
- Re-generate Foundational Social Roles
c. CELEBRATE THE INTERDEPENDENT COMMUNITY PRESENCE
SYMBOLIC OF THE PROBLEM: RELIGIOUS BIGOTRY
- Initiate Joint Ventures of Solidarity
- Organize Common Service Engagement
- Design Common Core Curriculum
- Integrate Community Responses
d. SOCIAL AND ECOLOGICAL GROUNDING OF ACADEMIC CURRICULUM
SYMBOLIC OF THE PROBLEM: KNOWLEDGE SEGMENTATION
- Establish a Methods Curriculum
- Connect Student Engagement Systems
- Nurture Faculty Mentoring Roles
- Demonstrate Covenanted Community Life