Saturday, 7 September 2013

Cultural semantic burden in social change

The relationships between children-parents, workers-employers, younger and older in the church carry a load of semantics that is different and is difficult to synchronize in the movement from the initiator of change and those who are running an establishment. This is supported by the various cognitive fixations and can be seen as rigid. Democracy in the social sphere and Toyotism in microeconomics, systems where every member is part of the system's movement towards improvement is a flexible system. Rigid systems may have to pass away to be converted. But the result may well be just another form of rigid system or one that hypocritically calls itself flexible but actually continues to be rigid in a new form.

Each of the above scenes has a different load and power.

Flexible systems are likely to be more resilient in evolutionary terms.

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