4.2.2. SEMINAR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT I – FRACTAL TIME (ESSAY)
TITLE: HOW DOES THE PAST REVEAL OUR FUTURE? CULTIVATING THE IMAGINATION FOR A WORLD FULL OF CHANGES.
NAME: DORA. JIMELA. KIALO. STUDENT ID # UD24910SSC33256.
SCHOOL: SOCIAL AND HUMAN STUDIES
July 19, 2013.
A partial fulfillment of Doctoral degree: Sociology of Education: Major: Educational Leadership and Organizational Management
Table of Content
TABLE OF CONTENTS Page
Content 1
Abstract 2
Introduction 2
Can the world avoid Global Consumption? 3
A Decade OF Decisive Denial 5
Life cycles of modern discovery 6
It’s a great time to start businesses for all of us here in PNG. 9
Exploring Ethical Dimensions in the Entrepreneurial Orientation 11
Oral Tradition - A Papua New Guinean Philosophy 13
Environmental Scanning and Business Students 15
What is environmental scanning? 16
Conclusion 16
Reference 17
Abstract.
When we view the past through the lens of the present, what do we lose? Nathaniel Popkin
In communities, people learn in order to belong. In a collective, people belong in order to learn. John Seely Brown and Douglas Thomas
Braden’s explanations on how ‘our present mirrors our past cycles’ of time is an interesting perspective on life cycles to modern discoveries. His work clearly shows how we can make sense of the constant changes in today’s world. Through these discoveries, we will be guided away from the destructive choices we have made in the past and we will demonstrate a way “to the greatest possibilities of our lives”. Gregg Braden. The author does a great job explaining how the past can reveal our future.
Introduction
Challenge is to find a way to marry structure and freedom to create something altogether new. So what frameworks do we need to make sense of traditional and modern western philosophies of learning about doing business and create wealth in our world of constant change? The new culture of learning actually comprises two elements. The first is a massive information network that provides almost unlimited access and resources to learn about anything. The second is a bounded and structured environment that allows unlimited agency to build and experiment with things within those boundaries. The reason we have failed to embrace these notions is that neither one alone makes for effective learning. It is the combination of the two, and the interplay between them, that makes the new culture of wealth creation through social entrepreneurship so powerful in the literature of business and change. Attitudes towards the environment in any developing country vary considerably, especially when put into the context of choosing between the value of environmental conservation and the value of business profits, land rights and so on. This essay will discuss views of such matters.
The 21st century began slowly, to the ticking of grandfather’s clocks and the stately rhythms of progress established by high Melanesian seriousness. Thanks to Science, industry, technology, and moral philosophy, humankind’s steps had at last been guided.
Many people the world over lament the environmental degradation that has been so well published over the past several decades. Such criticisms have a history going back at least as far back as the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. Resistance continues today, however, in some areas is the idea that governments, representing the public interests, have a duty to protect the natural world and its species. The reason for this resistance is usually economic or commercial in nature. It raises fundamental questions, which can be asked in different ways. For example:
1. Does the government have a duty to protect the public interest by controlling or banning ecologically unsound development of entrepreneurial activities and private properties?
2. Do private property owner entrepreneurs have the right to destroy the natural habitat and threaten the survival of species even when such actions are against the public interest of the citizens?
Can the world avoid Global Consumption?
More crudely, some would ask what right the government has to tell the people what they can and cannot do with their own property which is the land.
Similarly, the question arises out of the jurisdiction over environmental and entrepreneurship issues. Can individual states or nations be left to decide for themselves what kinds of regulations are needed, or does this require a regional or even global response? The world’s governments have in recent years accepted that problem such as global warming and ozone depletion require a worldwide collaborative effort leading to carbon trading and eco- tourism as social entrepreneurial activities in many developing countries who still have 90% of the world’s virgin forests.
Braden’s books; ‘Divine Matrix’ and ‘Fractal Time’ and Nathaniel Popkin’s documentary film series- Philadelphia’: “The great Experience”: “Song of the City”, “An Intimate Portrait of the American urban landscape” and the Possible City” all provide an assessment of what needs to be done if the earth and its inhabitants is to avoid irreparable harm. Some assumptions put forward by these two authors are pessimistic, in that they see the earth and its inhabitants facing catastrophe. Against this background, they ask what can be done. Their solutions are challenging, even for fellow environmentalists and entrepreneurs, involving “fundamental restructuring of many elements of society”. Most dramatically, they argue that our whole notion of social development and economic growth is the basic problem, and that, “it calls for a rethinking of our basic values and vision of economic development and progress.” The challenges entailed are described in those essays, books and documentary film series, in which Braden and Popkin see our current patterns of behavior as an addiction, which they compare to the addiction of an alcoholic or a religious guru.
Viewed in such comprehensive terms, the global problems and changes they describe must be met on many levels simultaneously. They talk about reducing world population growth, being much more generous in how the North helps developing countries in the south, adding our addiction to massive consumption culture, and being much more determinedly creative and innovative, in ways great and small, in developing more sustainable and less wasteful ways of living, working and creating our wealth through social entrepreneurial activities.
Since Braden, Popkin, Yunus, Ervin Laszlo and many other authors have written books about innovations, change, business and spirituality of it, we have learned more about the environmental devastation and degradation in the developed world such as the former USSR, and Eastern Europe, challenges to understand new developments in the world, including the reality we are faced with today as an obstacle to survive by rapidly changing fiascos where everything is connected mysteriously. These books help us by providing alternative ways to bridge the gaps between our imaginations and reality and Braden gives us 20 keys of conscious creation to interpret the imaginations into reality. Efforts are now under way to stop and reverse many of the negative social, economic and developmental phenomena.
On the other hand we may also observe, the dramatic economic development of China, Japan and Hong Kong including PNG and the aspirations of people there to join the America to form that consumer society. Half a trillion new cars and the roads to drive them on may seem like heaven to those who manufacture and sell automobiles, asphalt, and concrete, but it sounds like the world’s next nightmare to environmentalists, who see massive loss of critical arable land, to increased consumption of scarce commodities such as gas, oil and minerals, thus creating disastrous pollution.
Similarly, for example, even when common solutions are known, the entrepreneur disposition demands a better way; a more original response to the problem is created. Marketing agents and sales personnel often reconstruct their characters in outrageous ways just to try something new in order to get their goods sold as fast as possible. Part of the sales disposition, then, is a desire to push the boundaries of the sales environment in order to discover some new insight or useful information that deepens one understands of the trade. A few generations ago, a student with a sales disposition would have been considered eccentric and difficult to manage. Students with that disposition today, however, are becoming the norm. In Singapore, for example is the grendios of opened Sky Park, which combined the architectural, landscaping and other entrepreneurial skills, involved in creating the Sky Park on June 24 2013, opened a new wonder of the world. "Sky Park" Marina Bay Sands is located on the 200-meter height on the three skyscrapers, as if on three pillars. Here is the most expensive in the world of casinos, bars, restaurants, the largest outdoor swimming pool, 150 meters long, and even the Museum of Modern Art- an example of a new culture that cultivates the imagination for wealth creation in a world full of changes.
In a collective, there is no sense of a core or center. People are free to move in and out of the group at various times for various reasons, and their participation may vary based on topic, interest, experience, or need. From experiences witnessed in PNG, an informal sector activity is played like a game where it does not just teach selling; it cultivates citizenship. While street selling in informal marketing activities, a person has learned a lot about business, mathematics and accounting and a lot about participating in and developing public relationships, diplomacy, time management and generally about other communities and their culture. However, what one has learned most of all is how to learn from others. Other examples of technological, architectural, landscaping and many others like rice and trees growing on top of sky scrapers in Singapore and Japan are examples of magnificent global changes or imagination put to the construction of the whole structure.
A second difference is that the teaching-based approach focuses on teaching us about the world of business and economics, while the new social entrepreneurial culture of wealth creation focuses on learning through engagement within the world. End point. It invites us to ask more and better questions and carry out our business activities in more starter and shorter time-possible ways. We can see that learning is taking place in day-to-day life through the fusion of vast informational resources with very personal, specific needs and actions. The new culture of learning gives us the freedom to make the general personal and then share our personal experience in a way that, in turn, adds to the general flow of knowledge. Rather, it thrives on change, integrating it into its process as one of its environmental variables and creating further change.
A Decade OF Decisive Denial
In the traditional view of teaching, information is transferred from one person (the teacher) to another (the student). It presumes the existence of knowledge that both is worth communicating and does not tend to change very much over time. Ironically, however, that very stability makes the model impossible to maintain as the world roils in a state of constant flux. Before 1981, few people imagined that change so monumental could happen virtually overnight. In a remarkable series of events, says World Watch, “the soviet brand of communism crumbled irreparably, relegating the cold war to history” Nature Limits (1995) State of the World- World Watch. As striking and swift as these changes were, the twenty-first century must give rise to the transformations of imaginations into reality even more profound and pervasive if we are to hold onto realistic hopes for a better world as suggested by Braden in his books “The Divine Matrix: Bridging Time, Space, Miracles and Beliefs and Fractal Time.
From a literature point of view, the important thing about the ‘Harry Potter’ and ‘Brave New World’ phenomenon is not so much what the kids were learning, but how they were learning. However, there was no teacher in this setting, readers engaged in deep, sustained learning from one another through their discussions and other interactions.
Life cycles of modern discovery
The new culture of social entrepreneurship is based on three principles: (1) the old ways of doing business are unable to keep up with our rapidly changing world. (2) New media forms are making peer-to-peer or even from the comfort of homes to homes business makes it so natural, easy and accessible for social entrepreneurs. (3) Peer-to-peer learning is amplified by emerging technologies that shape the collective nature of global changes and participation with those new media and technology for business.
Play in school and sports, for example is yet another means through which the tension between the rules of the game and the freedom to act within those rules can be leveraged. However, when play happens within a medium for learning—much like a culture in a Petri dish—it creates a context in which information, ideas, and passions grow. Potent tools for this type of learning already exist in the world around us and have become part of our daily lives—think of Wikipedia, Face book, YouTube, and online games, to name just a few.
What happens to learning when we move from the stable infrastructure of the twentieth century to the fluid infrastructure of the twenty-first century, where technology is constantly creating and responding to change?