Managing complexity through social intelligence : foundations of the modern organic corporatist state

Managing complexity through social intelligence : foundations of the modern organic corporatist state / Jeremy Horne.

This book presents solutions to problems that are total and based on thinking about how and why humans have organized themselves. It discusses how to avoid the now well-documented Holocene Extinction, propelled by climate change, wars, resource depletion, desertification, degrading knowledge quality...

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Main Author: Horne, Jeremy (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer, [2023]
Series:Contributions to political science.
Subjects:
Human ecology.
Sustainability.
Society 5.0.
human ecology.
Human ecology
Society 5.0
Sustainability
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Preface
  • A Note on Style and Criteria
  • A Note on Sources and Their Uses
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • Chapter 1: Introduction
  • 1.1 Audience
  • 1.2 The Turmoil We Are in
  • 1.3 The Yellow Brick Road
  • 1.4 Uniqueness of This Book
  • 1.5 Presentation Method
  • 1.6 The United States as a Paradigm
  • References (all accessed 15-29 November 2022)
  • Chapter 2: What Is Promoting Human Extinction?
  • 2.1 About This Chapter
  • 2.1.1 Scope
  • 2.1.2 Rationale for Method
  • 2.1.3 Rationale for Categories
  • 2.1.4 Sourcing
  • 2.2 The Categories
  • 2.2.1 Individual
  • 2.2.1.1 Alienation and Identity
  • 2.2.1.2 The Liberal Democratic Response: Identity Politics
  • 2.2.1.3 Health
  • Health Care Overall
  • Mental Health
  • Substance Abuse
  • Nutritional Compromise
  • 2.2.1.4 Education and Lack of Basic Knowledge
  • 2.2.1.5 Work
  • Losing Oneself at Work
  • Types and Conditions of Work Environments
  • 2.2.2 Society
  • 2.2.2.1 Social Institutional Decay
  • Income Stratification: The Consequences
  • And the Proletarians, the Bulk of Society?
  • General Flaws in the Governing Document, the Constitution
  • A Constitutional Action Plan of the Dark Variety
  • 2.2.2.2 Infrastructure
  • 2.2.3 Environment: Natural
  • 2.2.3.1 Climate Change/Global Warming
  • 2.2.3.2 Resource Depletion
  • 2.2.3.3 Environmental Degradation and Major Reasons for It
  • 2.2.4 Environment: Artificial
  • 2.2.4.1 Ethos, Ethics, and Morals
  • 2.2.4.2 Philosophy and Ideology
  • 2.2.4.3 Telecommunications Vulnerabilities
  • 2.2.4.4 Artificial Intelligences
  • 2.2.4.5 Knowledge Quality
  • Documentation
  • Pseudoscience and on the Borderlands of Science
  • Information Quality, Peer Review, and ``Fake News ́́
  • 2.2.4.6 Socioeconomics: Mergers and Acquisitions
  • 2.2.4.7 Technological Complexity
  • 2.2.4.8 Overpopulation
  • 2.3 Other Problems
  • 2.4 The Prison Planet
  • 2.5 Summary of Problem Areas
  • References (all accessed 15-29 November 2022)
  • Chapter 3: Responses to Social Problems
  • 3.1 Power
  • 3.2 From Zero to Infinity in a Hierarchy
  • 3.3 Archies, Ocracies and Isms
  • 3.4 Philosophical Isms
  • 3.4.1 Libertarianism
  • 3.4.2 Authoritarianism
  • 3.4.3 Totalitarianism
  • 3.4.4 Statism
  • 3.4.5 Nationalism
  • 3.4.6 Populism
  • 3.5 Structural ``Isms ́́
  • 3.5.1 Capitalism
  • 3.5.2 Fascism
  • 3.5.3 National Socialism
  • 3.5.4 Americanism
  • 3.5.5 Socialism
  • 3.6 Hierarchal Types
  • 3.6.1 Anarchy
  • 3.6.2 Democracy
  • 3.6.3 Liberal Democracy
  • 3.6.4 Republic
  • 3.6.5 Oligarchy
  • 3.6.6 Plutocracy: From Wiktionary
  • 3.6.7 Aristocracy: From Wiktionary
  • 3.6.8 Meritocracy: From Wiktionary
  • 3.6.9 Monarchy: From Wiktionary
  • 3.6.10 Theocracy: From Wiktionary
  • 3.6.11 Autocracy: From Wiktionary
  • 3.7 Toward the Etiology
  • References (all accessed 15-29 November 2022)
  • Chapter 4: How these Conditions Came to be
  • 4.1 Alas, the Isms and Ocracies dont́ Function
  • 4.2 Some History of the Problems and the Responses

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