Modern World Economy is Not a Living System

Unfortunately, "the world economy" is not based on living systems, albeit, it was surely given much impetus by Darwinism (and Spencers' handy coining of "the survival of the fittest"). In fact, the Ivy League schools, funded by the railroad magnates & their kin, embraced Darwinism enthusiastically as the scientific rationale for their machinations.

How wonderful it would be if your concept of living systems, as holarchies, comprised of holons, imbued with consciousness, could have the same effect on world economy that Darwinism did on the industrial revolution! But "world economy" is like an all-engulfing unconsciousness, ruled by corporations - the definition and freedom of which is freaky and noxious and unaccountable. There is no one in charge; it's a Thing without proper identity (like the nasty spirits in Madeleine L'Engle's Time Trilogy). Corporations, and thus "the world economy," are a logical consequence of Cartesian mechanics - which played such a profound role in the development of scientific materialism, of which Darwinism is, supposedly, the proof.

I wish you had given more of yourself to this Roundtable. I find your statement ingenuous. Are you surprised that "the world economy violates the fundamental organizational principles of all living systems"? You sound burnt-out to me. I want to take up your cause, but your statement only, really, elicits from me, a "tsk, tsk, tsk" from the Chorus.

Tell me, how do you think this enormous problem is to be addressed? And what are you trying to do about it? But first, please define "modern world economy" and "the fundamental organizational principles of all living systems." I think only then can a lively, meaningful Roundtable happen.