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IMPLICATIONS
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Cultural Relating: When nations engage in processing for
mutual benefit with other cultures it allows for the resources of each nation
to help realize the goals of the other. Thinking about and with other nations
to solve problems and take advantage of opportunities results in mutual
benefits.
Economic
Enterprise:
When entrepreneurial-driven free enterprise is supported then people are
motivated to apply themselves and deliver economic and social benefits for
themselves and others.
Governance
Support: With
direct democratic governance, everyone is empowered to participate directly
in setting governance policies and in directing government programs. This
supports the generation and implementation of “great new ideas.”
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Contributor
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(Additive)
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Cultural Relating: Nations that work helpfully with other
cultures can “add” to each others cultures, wealth and prosperity. Good
intentions can lead to good results however “Generative Thinking” and a
dedication to “mutual benefits” at the level above this one can lead to
fantastic levels of mutual growth.
Economic
Enterprise: When capitalistic economies, including New Capital
Development Systems, motivate people to apply their energies to develop
and deliver useful products and services, benefits may accrue for everyone.
Participants in traditional capitalistic economies would be further motivated
and enabled by the entrepreneurial-driven free enterprise of the level of
economic enterprise above this one.
Governance
Support:
Representative democratic governments enable people to have their voices
heard through the representative they elect to create a nation of laws.
Representative democratic governments also organize “independent judiciaries”
to ensure freedom and justice for their citizens. Direct democracy, at the
next higher level, would address the current issues of “non-equitable access
to citizen representatives” and the “limits of democracy by representation.”
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Participant
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(Interchangeable)
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Cultural Relating: When nations assume they can act autonomously
and unilaterally in relation to other cultures, they are operating on a
razor’s edge. Autonomy is, at best, a fantasy—no nation has all the
resources, within its’ own borders, that its’ citizens want or need. National
policies may attempt to keep from stepping on the rights and opportunities
of other nations and the citizens of those other nations however this is
ultimately an impossible balancing act. Just as relationships are among
people—relationships are never on “hold,” they are either growing
or they are deteriorating.
Economic
Enterprise:
Mixed economies include both capitalistic (private ownership of business)
and command (national ownership, national subsidies, national tariffs).
These are usually “transitional economic practices” moving economies from
command and control towards capitalistic and ultimately entrepreneurially-driven
free-market economies. The “command” responses (national ownership, national
subsidies, national tariffs) may protect jobs for the short-term but ultimately
are not viable long-term economic solutions.
Governance
Support: Mixed representative and authoritarian governance may
be temporarily helpful in times of crisis however, authoritarianism is ultimately
anti-human. As within a family, parents may, for a time, make decisions
for their children, ultimately, however, children must be empowered with
knowledge and skills and set free to govern their own lives and make their
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Subtractor |
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Cultural Relating: Some nations may decide to relate with
other nations or cultures by preventing growth activities. When two nations
decide to relate with each other in this way, they are at a point of critical
decision-making: to end detractive activities and relate either as autonomous
nations (impossible to sustain), or relate as helpful and growthful nations
in the global community; or decide to spiral into large-scale violent conflict
with other nations.
Economic
Enterprise: Command economies dictate specific initiatives. These
policies ultimately destroy an economy by destroying the motivation of its
people to apply their minds and hearts to work.
Governance
Support:
Selective authoritarian control by governments selectively limit citizen
participation. Citizens may be incarcerated or worse for disagreeing with
the authoritarian state. This form of government sows the seeds of its own
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Cultural Relating: Any nation that decides to relate with
another nation by destroying the rights and freedoms of the citizens of
another nation has chosen violence as its way of life. Violent relating
is a short-term behavioral pattern. Both victors and victims loose valued
life and resources. Ultimately, existence itself requires deciding to adopt
levels of cultural relating that involve mutually growful activities.
Economic
Enterprise: Control
economies dictate all initiatives. Personal motivation for economic activity
is crushed in all but a few ideologues.
Governance
Support: “Detractor Nations” cannot allow intelligent, people to
survive within their “police-states”. Their citizens "go underground
and wait," "take their chances with non-violent demonstrations,"
or “take up arms,” against tyranny. |
