I usually post my blog articles on several social media sites and list servers, and sometimes the feedback I get forces me to think deeper and wider and make more connections than I could have made without that feedback.
In response to one such pivotal email feedback to the article A Resetting of our Life-Dysfunctional Cultural Value Systems to the Life-Valued Ground via The Three Horizons Framework, which I would reproduce as anonymous below, I was moved to respond in highlighting the deeper cultural and ethical issues involved which pointed directly to Prof John McMurtry’s life-value onto-axiology (LVOA) system’s framework of reasoning, understanding and meaning, which on further reflection is worthy of further dissemination on the wider social media platforms.
On Sunday, June 3, 2018 8:40 AM, xxx wrote:
This reaffirms my thinking that the culture shift had to be indigenously led from traditional governance models of leadership from the councils of women. Only they have the moral and cultural authority however degraded by colonialism.
I’m becoming increasingly convinced that only if we approach our existential crisis from a story of intense love will we be able to shift the culture of fear and despair to one of passionate engagement. Not saving but regenerating the world. Let’s work from the perspective of opportunity rather than threat. As John points out 5000 plus years of patriarchy have shifted our orientation from a nurturing Mother Earth to a punitive, do as I say or else, sky Father. We see this contrast being acted out in the settler led environmental movement (this is what will happen unless. …) as opposed to the indigenous resurgence of land based resistance (recognition that we are related to all life and will not allow the destruction of our relations upon whom we all depend).
All my relations
xxx
On Sunday, June 3, 2018 7:55 PM, I responded (hyperlinks were not in the original email and has been added here for deeper study):
Thanks xxx.
Yes I agree. The patriarchal domination societies are organized for the minority ruling class to exploit and extract life wealth from the majority of societies. It is only when we have a matrifocal partnership society, with life values built in that respect Mother Earth and the reproductive, caring and sharing human capacities and relationships (which are embodied and manifested feminine maternal values) above commoditizing, monetizing and financialization in a race to the bottom to liquidate all of our planetary and social goods and services, then and only then, would we have less social conflicts and more loving and warm relations, which are the true antidotes against war in all of their manifestations, be it against drugs, obesity, cancer and terrorism. How I see it, war is a false flag writ large to enrich the international financier’s unaccountable and unelectable shadow government, and this is performed covertly by Capitalism’s Invisible Army/Criminal International Agency and overtly by the military industrial complex (AKA the deep (dark) state).
I would like to submit two exhibits that have had a profound effect on my psyche and understanding of the world, and which I think may be equally beneficial to members of this august body.
The first is basically based on indigenous wisdom which is what John has been preaching/teaching all along. It is a system value disorder that we are dealing with and his LVOA is a systematization of this knowledge in the social sphere akin to what Euclid did for geometry in an ancient time. These were discoveries not inventions, are universal truths that should be applicable to any species on any finite planet within any multiverse that have a social foundation with needs to be met and an ecological ceiling that sets the limits within which we need to work collectively to stay within the safe and just limits of these boundary spaces. This is formalized in Kay Raworth’s Doughnut Economics model which can be easily life-grounded with LVOA principles, criteria and measures.
“Society must be able to ask and answer moral questions if it is to survive.
“If you don’t have a moral question governing your society, then you don’t have a society that is going to survive.” ~ Oren Lyons
Is it moral to house animals in inhumane living conditions, inject them with growth hormones, and genetically modify them so that they are unable to walk yet grow more meat? Is it moral to emit pollution that will certainly lead to sea level rise endangering future generations? Is it moral to destroy natural habitats causing many entire species to become extinct? These are all moral questions that Western (and nearly all modern) cultures refuse to ask, let alone answer. Instead, most are too busy getting, acquiring, consuming, and “making a living” to concern themselves in real earnest with these global issues.
If we do not collectively concern ourselves with our moral behavior, what will become of us? Like cancer, our economy must grow until it has consumed its host. If it doesn’t, millions face incredible personal hardship. Oren Lyons asks if there is a concept of a yellow flag that indicates we are consuming too much of the planet’s resources. He asks CEOs when do you stop being a CEO and become a grandfather. At the end of our lives, each of us will need to reckon with ourselves, did we give more than we took from the world?
We must begin to incorporate moral questions into our governing process or, as Oren Lyon says, you won’t have a process that is going to survive.”
The second submission is by Bernard Lietaer, the most knowledgable insider of the monetary social construction, who has actually been embedded in its evolution and has attempted to fix it, but he has been getting major resistance by the status quo who does not want the system to change as it works just fine for them – the myopic ruling money-carcinogenic life-blind class.
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Again, as you have intimated, it is the absence of the feminine values in our narratives that is the root cause of the pandemic rise of greed and scarcity on the planet over the past 5000 years. And this is closely related to our dominant religions (including the market theology of neoliberalism), and scientisms (survival of the fittest) that preach domination over nature, man over woman, parent over children, teacher over student, employer over employee, nation over nation, and any other hierarchical dominant relation you can imagine. It was Raine Eisler, and her relational dynamics systems approach in uncovering the fundamental relationship within the family and society, who opened my eyes to the need for cultural transformation towards a loving, caring, sharing partnership society based on hierarchies of actualization of the human potential (building apprentices of vocations and wisdom), as opposed to the hierarchies of domination that extract and exploit for the sake of maintaining power and privilege over planet and people.
I have their works littered across my blog site it you are interested in discovering more, and as you can tell John’s LVOA has been the compass that has guided me in collecting these gems of different lens, filters and prisms that are also fully-life coherent. What is amazing, the life-value coherency is implicit in their theories and worldviews, despite the fact that the life-value base is not explicitly identified.
It is my life-mission to help spread the gospel of John’s work, as it is not based on life-blind premises firewalled by non-sequitur deductive-logic reasoning, but the primary axiom of life value that is transparently and accountably supported by so much empirical-inductive reasoning, that has not yet, in the letter and spirit of his work, in the iota, ever been disconfirmed, given that it is easily falsifiable and is based on the scientific method to the core.
It would be a small step for man and woman, but a giant leap for for all of humankind if SfP can incorporate John’s Primary Axiom of Value in its constitution and all of your de-liberations to bring this understanding and its application from its greatest awareness to a higher and wider collective cross-section of consciousness.
With much peace, hope and love, guided by l-v o-a,
Bichara
