Shared Success Delivered Ecosocietal Change is a simply achievable positive solution to the adamantine cycle of progressive breakdown. Referencing common discussion, progressivism is a way of thinking which holds that it is possible through political action for human societies to improve over time. As a political movement, progressivism purports to advance the human condition through social reform based on advancements in science, technology, economic development and social organization. Adherents to this way of thinking hold that progressivism has universal application and endeavour to spread this idea to human societies everywhere. Purportedly, it arose during the Age of Enlightenment (an intellectual and philosophical movement that dominated Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries with global influences and effects. The Enlightenment included a range of ideas centred on the value of human happiness, the pursuit of knowledge obtained by means of reason, sensory evidence and ideals such as liberty, progress, toleration, fraternity, constitutional government, and separation of church and state) out of the belief that civility in Europe was improving due to the application of new empirical knowledge to the governance of society. Progressives believed that progress was stifled by economic inequality, inadequately regulated monopolistic corporations, and conflict between workers and elites, arguing that corrective measures were needed and in modern political discourse, progressivism is often associated with social liberalism. In the 21st century, it is generally considered that a movement that identifies as progressive is “a social or political movement that aims to represent the interests of ordinary people through political change and the support of government actions”. Let us consider that a more attuned ecohumanistic reality of progressive is considered as Shared Success – working as one in individual and societal interests and endeavours to promote positive outcomes based upon minimum change for maximum benefit – with a dollar saved being considered superior to a dollar earned. Let us right now, accept the Earth as a single biosphere; the sole nurturing entity embracing myriads of amazing organisms, species, natural, and industrialised forms, which both enrich, and embattle the ecosocietal balance. Now let us immediately realise that we all have a finite accountability for the necessary integrated intergenerational dependence of all ecology and resign ourselves to the fact that the growing planetary arrogance, incompetence and outright tyrannical indolence is the greatest issue facing humanity and the survival of all species. Of the myriads of organisms, and forms that make up our shared, no-alternative communal home, called Earth, the human race driven by misinformation emboldened greed, fear, and insecurity, which is far more prevalent than the so-called popular media constructed narrative proclaims, is the most wilfully and uncaringly destructive. Fear of societally/socially considered failure, aligned with collectively bolstered fears of the unknown, self-inspired or encouraged greed in personal desires, mis-guided and totally undeserved self-importance, coupled with rampant insecurity and inabilities in character, and societal/social environments are major neuroses pedalling mindsets influences. We are more than ever, in the societal form, a delusionally entitled and destructive society. (Delusional Entitlement Disorder: The Unofficial Disease That Is Destroying America’s Spirit: I Want It Now, I Want The Best, I Want It Free, Somebody Owes Me! Paperback – November 23, 2009-by PhD E. A. Shockney) (Whatever happened to the grit of work ethic, the display of manners, stewardship for our neighbours and respect for others? It is vanishing at an unconscionable rate and leaving behind an ever-growing population of people who place self-centeredness, greed, and a perception of entitlement all wrapped up together in a toxic mass that is strangling global spirit. Delusional Entitlement Disorder explores stories that reflect its damage, accounts of those who have avoided such a malignant attitude and offers advice as to how to avoid the growth of such a phenomenon within the family, community and nation. The millennials, the xennials, generation-z, along with those that prey up.) There must be an offset/balance to those who are focused upon their collective insatiable need for instant gratification, the flourishing ‘wasteworld of wanton arrogance’ issue, in a society where it is generally cheaper, simpler, and socially more inspiring to ‘buy a new one.’ The Look At Me, Syndrome of the emotionally, and humanist-bereft intrinsic self-applauding failure driven personalities has become a value titled as Influencer. The great faceless corporations, their lawyers, accountants, and the governments that deliver lamentable laws allowing those who exploit with the promise to comply, and rehabilitate, only to lawfully liquidate and walk away from catastrophic accountabilities, leaving them to society, are ever continually the accepted norm. Although highly eloquent, and efficient at delivering stakeholder-engaging rhetoric the general collective are linear in their philosophy; often investor, and shareholder singular-serving fixed-mindsets. Match this with the hollow promise pedalling politically motivated, voted in by constituents with ever diminishing memories, poorly envisioned agendas, and subliminally encouraged anachronic governance. Add to this, the agencies filled with those who attend work to simply get paid; not to as public service implies fulfill a societally serving mandate, and you have modern society, of which each and every one of us is a culprit in so many ways. An advancement may be an ecosocietally tri-lateral mindset (economic – ecological – societal), or an intergenerational ecosocietally sustainable growth-mindset. One that according to a transparent robust risk assessment methodology expedites societally serving practices and outcomes providing unburdened appropriate mutually beneficial outcomes.
**Note: (Sustainable as in sustainability is referred to as a policy concept with its origin in the Brundtland Report of 1987. That document was concerned with the tension between the aspirations of humankind towards a better life on the one hand and the limitations imposed by nature on the other hand. Not the societally abhorrent predators ́ commonly pedalled rhetoric.) Four primary imperatives of society are surely, respect, rights, recognition and Reciprocity.
Societal imperatives: Respect, Rights, Recognition and Reciprocity (criticality)
Respect, must be mutual, must be earned, and must be honoured. The acceptance of embarrassingly recycled self-serving rhetoric in place of the need for a new approach, which is pedalled as the predominant societal view by those in power who are generally afflicted with ‘short-memory syndrome’, must be reversed. Essentially, why must society continually suffer arrogance, and ignorance exacerbating self-serving incompetence. On-going, projects, and practices must be competently, and transparently risk-assessed, and judiciously managed in self-reliance, engaging robust collectively partnered ecosocietal solutions. This permits the efficient, effective delivery of a model, which encourages actual prosperity for all, not merely the select few. The widely pedalled rhetoric of environmental social governance (ESG) goal must surely be turned from industry serving weasel-words to the reality of empowering sagacious societally serving unity with a genuine commitment to, and the enabling of, actually mutually beneficial achievement through combined empirical knowledge, delivering intergenerationally sound solutions.
Rights, carry responsibility, a fact not always considered, accepted, or appreciated. There is little difference between individual and institutional rights. In a democratic model, they are purported to be delivered equally; yet we know this to be untrue. The act of an individual affects institutional rights much less than the institutional rights affect the individual unless that individual is a powerful corporation. Every person has the right to a voice; to be recognised, and respected. The rights of all must be parallel, and honoured. Is that not a basic convention of an ethical/right-thinking society?
Recognition, is a positive acknowledgement usually earned through the demonstration of worthy character. Unfortunately, this much-needed recognition is controlled by the few, in order to maintain the status quo and manage political and societal opinion and challenge. A return to culturally astute community focus as a driver of commercial prosperity; practice, arts, language, lore, and law, will develop true recognition for the identification of those in the community with real and deserved cultural and practical needs and abilities. Wastelands come in many forms, including naturally disturbed lands, lands disturbed through mining, and associated effluent, lands affected by industrial processes, municipal, and other wastes agglomeration, over grazed, and over cropped lands, salinity affected lands, and clear-felled forest, and human denuded lands.
Reciprocity, is considered the exchange of something between people or groups of people when each person or group gives or allows something to the other. The norm of reciprocity requires that we repay in kind what another has done for us. It can be understood as the expectation that others will respond favourably to each by returning benefits for benefits, and responding with either indifference or hostility to harms. To quote Bill Mollison – ‛The Earth demands a return for every gift received for life in all its forms to continue and multiply.’ The social norm of reciprocity often takes different forms in different socio-cultural areas or in different societies. All of them, however, are distinct from related ideas such as gratitude, standard expectations, or mutual goodwill. The norm of reciprocity mirrors the concept of reciprocal altruism in evolutionary biology. However, evolutionary theory and therefore sociobiology, was considered to be not well received by mainstream psychologists. This led to the revitalisation of reciprocal altruism underneath the new social psychological concept, norm of reciprocity. Reciprocal altruism has been applied to various species, including humans, while mainstream psychologists use the norm of reciprocity to only explain humans. An underlying norm of reciprocity is by itself a powerful engine for motivating, creating, sustaining, and regulating the cooperative behavior required for self-sustaining social organizations, controlling the damage done by the unscrupulous, and contributing to social system stability. The power and ubiquity of the norm of reciprocity can be used against the unwary, however, and is the basis for the success of many malicious confidence games. Minor, usually less malicious examples are techniques used in advertising and other propaganda whereby a small gift of some kind is proffered with the expectation of producing a desire on the part of the recipient to reciprocate in some way, for example by purchasing a product, making a donation, or becoming more receptive to a line of argument.
The Shared Success Philosophy views the glass as half-full, always, with enough to share!
The shared success philosophy combines essential knowledge, positive design and practice to achieve continually improving, holistically sustaining intergenerational circumstance. The focus upon People, Planet & Prosperity through Respect, Rights & Recognition is one of positive, insightful observation envisioning the biosphere as a single system of which human society is simply an element. The ability in facilitating deliverable knowledge and solutions transfer to allow all elements to be considered in a single harmonious sustaining ecosocietal prosperity advancing model is shared success which fully embraces the concept that the Earth is a single biosphere, evoking one sustaining approach to people, planet & prosperity, (ecosocietal prosperity) through enduring partnerships; assembling ethical cultural and physical patterns which function to benefit life in all its forms. The practice of shared success is the innovation of beneficial advancements through positive-creative sustaining activity. A direct focus upon ‘greed free agreements’ that deliver reciprocal benefits in economics, ecology and society through positive actions in practice, arts, language, lore, and law centred upon intergenerationally sustaining delivery of functional ecosocietal symbiosis; the core of ecosocietal prosperity. Culturally valued societal mutualism is paramount in developing and maintaining intergenerationally achievable advancements in government, industry and community, while reducing unnecessary erosions in ecology, culture and economics. The immediate and long-term objectives are to improve ecocultural stability and ecosocietal resilience in a prosperous framework of Mindset -Method – Management.
