The Two Global Forces Series at The Future of Leadership Substack
The dynamic we are in is the tension between the global and the local, between centralization and decentralization, and what happens when the center of society no longer supports the periphery.
The Two Global Forces are:
- The Centralized Institutions of Governance and Finance
- The Decentralized Networks of Relationships
The relationship between the two is represented by this map.
The Two Global Forces Framework
This is the basic view. Two axes: Global to Local and Left to Right.
What changes this perspective from a classic binary picture is that the line between left and right bends so that there is a left and right local component and a left and right global component. I could identify these positions with various ideological and institutional groups, but I’d prefer you look at this picture as a map of the patterns of behavior that represent primarily global and local cultures.
To understand this picture at a deeper and broader level, I suggest that you read the posts that I have selected for The Two Global Forces Series. These are in an order that I think will be beneficial to you read. I welcome your comments and questions.
The Two Global Forces Series
- The Future is More Than Complex
- The Spectacle of The Real
- All Wars Are Local
- Leadership That Is Weak
- A Relocation of Power
- Two Global Forces in Conflict Part 1,
- Two Global Forces in Conflict Part 2
- Two Global Forces in Conflict Part 3
- How Global Networks become Local Networks of Relationships
- As the Center Does Not Hold, the Periphery Grows
- Centralization – Decentralization in Transition
- Synthetic Center and Periphery
- Synthesizing Our Local Communities
- Synthesis Transition To The Future
Digging into The Two Global Forces
Here is a more detailed map of the Two Global Forces that I developed in the Fall of 2021. You are free to disagree with any or all of it. Tell me what you think. I feed off your input.
My purpose was to map the relationships, both ideological and institutional of these groups within the Two Global Forces sphere of influence. As I look at it right now, it may be a bit dated. Take it as a starting point for your own growing perception of the big picture.
As a map, it represents only a portion of the territory that I am describing.
Why is this important?
We are inundated with messages and perspectives every day. If you are not working to develop your critical thinking skills, you will lose your capacity to tell truth from fiction. You will also lose your capacity to act as a person of agency.
Are you able to stand while everyone else sits and accepts the messages that you all receive? You can if you are willing to work at developing your intuitional knowledge. I am not talking about developing arguments to defend a position. I am talking about being able to see what others cannot see and then say Yes or No with a clear conscience. ,
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