{"id":168361,"date":"2020-09-14T12:00:28","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T11:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=168361"},"modified":"2020-09-19T04:31:10","modified_gmt":"2020-09-19T03:31:10","slug":"what-world-are-we-moving-into","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2020\/09\/what-world-are-we-moving-into\/","title":{"rendered":"What World Are We Moving Into?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t know.\u00a0 But I think\u00a0I know something\u2026\u00a0 At least I think, hence I may know\u2026<\/p>\n

Not a world of nation states.\u00a0 \u00a0Their time is over, except for the biggest ones.\u00a0 The majority are simply too small.\u00a0 A state is about power to control, by an organization also referred to as the state.\u00a0 The state inside the state– a state center to control the rest, the state periphery.<\/p>\n

For that to work information\u00a0about possible\u00a0threats to the control must be ultra-quick, preferably\u00a0the speed of light (not smoke signals between mountain-tops). Actually, this is more or less the world we have.<\/p>\n

But that world\u00a0is changing.\u00a0 The driving force being like it was, for Marx,\u00a0changes in technology.\u00a0 But unlike Marx not of the means of production, but of the means of transportation and communication.\u00a0 From horseback and sailing ships to flights and missiles; from smoke signals\u00a0to the speed of light. Quite a lot–.<\/p>\n

So we get the change that has been going on for some time now, from a world of nation states toward a world of civilization regions; maybe about 10 of them, give or take a few..<\/p>\n

A world for the better, or for the worse?<\/p>\n

Depends on what we make of it.\u00a0 However, we can predict that schools will have to reduce the teaching of nation-state histories, including their own, with their glories and traumas, in favor of civilization cultures, with their pros and cons.\u00a0 That favors younger teachers and demands retraining of the older teachers.<\/p>\n

Although schools cannot release their students into not only society but their region, the whole world without cultural and civilizational maps, a key challenge today.<\/p>\n

We are used to 2-dimensional maps that represent the 3rd dimension by curves connecting points at the same altitude.\u00a0 There is the danger that we may treat cultures, even whole civilizations, the same way, in terms of higher and lower..\u00a0 For specific dimensions–like level of pluralism of diversity–yes; but not generally.<\/p>\n

Rather, look for and emphasize the strong points of every culture\/civilization,\u00a0But, then, from the point of view of which\u00a0civilization?\u00a0 Answer: several of them. Pluralistic\u00a0realities call for pluralistic teaching-learning, lest we fall into\u00a0the temptation–some would say abyss–of declaring one of them “universal” as has been done often in\u00a0human history,\u00a0 always followed by “decline and fall.”<\/p>\n

Morale: to avoid decline and fall, don’t climb too high, aim at equality, everybody at the same level, and everybody relating to everybody.\u00a0 Round tables galore.<\/p>\n

We have the privilege of living in a very exciting period in history, saying farewell to nation-states and welcoming civilization-regions.\u00a0 And then always with the possibility of rediscovering, or recreating, a reality of “small is beautiful”, regardless of how much “big is necessary” may be emerging.\u00a0 Exciting!<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a><\/em>Johan Galtung, a professor of peace studies, dr hc mult, is founder of <\/em>TRANSCEND International<\/a> and rector of <\/em>TRANSCEND Peace University<\/a>. <\/em>He was awarded among others the 1987 Right Livelihood Award, known as the Alternative Nobel Peace Prize.<\/em> Galtung\u00a0has mediated in\u00a0over 150 conflicts in more than 150 countries, and written more than 170 books on peace and related issues<\/em>, 96 as the sole author. More than 40 have been translated to other languages, including <\/em>50 Years-100 Peace and Conflict Perspectives<\/a> published by <\/em>TRANSCEND University Press<\/a>. His book, <\/em>Transcend and Transform<\/a>, was translated to 25 languages<\/em>. He has published more than 1700 articles\u00a0and book\u00a0chapters and over 500 Editorials for <\/em>TRANSCEND Media Service<\/a>. More information about Prof. Galtung<\/a> and all of his publications<\/a> can be found at transcend.org\/galtung<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We have the privilege of living\u00a0in a very exciting period in history, saying farewell\u00a0to nation-states and welcoming civilization-regions.\u00a0 And then always with the possibility of rediscovering, or recreating, a reality of “small is beautiful”, regardless of how much “big is necessary” may be emerging.\u00a0 Exciting!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[252,2108,809,613,380],"class_list":["post-168361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial","tag-future","tag-future-studies","tag-johan-galtung","tag-new-world-order","tag-solutions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}