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This paper issues a strategic and moral call to action: to recognize the global disorder not as a set of isolated crises but as a single patterned incoherence — structurally carcinogenic to the planetary life-host. Rooted in John McMurtry’s Primary Axiom of Value, we diagnose the systemic contradictions of a money-value civilization accelerating the degradation of public health, ecological stability, and social integrity. Through integrative analysis and regenerative vision, the paper offers a paradigm of life-coherence that redefines how we measure value, design institutions, and govern health and knowledge.
Key Contributions:
- Establishes life-value as the ontological ground of all legitimate value.
- Diagnoses transnational financial capital as the metastatic driver of systemic incoherence.
- Reframes noncommunicable diseases, particularly obesity, as embodied indicators of deeper regulatory and symbolic breakdowns.
- Synthesizes McMurtry’s axiology with Marvin Harris’s cultural materialism and recent biomedical research.
- Offers a coherence-centered design framework for AI, public health, education, infrastructure, and planetary governance.
- Concludes with a call to enact the Primary Axiom through symbolic, institutional, and personal realignment.
This paper is a step toward restoring the integrity of life systems at all scales, and in doing so, fulfilling the promise of civilization.