</a>Shift from conventional constraints under the South Wind of change

Spontaneous Initiation of Armageddon -- a heartfelt response to systemic negligence (Part #9)

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Perhaps of most significance, the "South Wind" will not be constrained by approaches to change that have been favoured by the other winds:

• Strategic coherence: The assumption that any social plan of action should be based on a coherent framework will be set aside. This assumption has been widely used to manipulate debate in response to problems by aspiring to conditions of coherence that could not be achieved -- and thus avoiding action. No attempt will be made to develop a common "map" of the way forward -- although many map be advocated.. The "South Wind" will in many ways be perceived as illogical in its approach to change -- perhaps to be perceived by history as being as illogical and incoherent as the systemic negligence effectively practiced by the other winds. The expectation that change agents, to be effective, will necessarily "sing from the same hymn sheet" will therefore be ignored.
• Shared values: The assumption that appropriate change will be achieved in the light of shared universal values will be set aside. Their acclaimed universality will be perceived as a device to manipulate discourse in favour of those promoting such values..
• Academic legitimacy: The assumption that effective action requires legitimization by academic research and debate will be perceived as an irrelevant delaying tactic employed by those primarily motivated to collect data and generate models that serve their academic careers -- rather than respond to the problems people experience
• Authentication: Processes of widespread authentication, certification and accreditation, including institutional "self-regulatory systems", will be ignored. Ironically this is liable to be matched by a much heightened emphasis on individual authenticity in a context in which mendacity and corruption are icreasingly seen as survival options.
• Leadership: The assumption of the need for clear cut leadership will be set aside. Disagreement about chains of command and responsibility have focused attention on the politics of remedial action, often to the exclusion of any focus on the action itself.
• Value of life: The value currently attached to life in theory (in privileged locations) will be set aside in favour of the more pragmatic one corresponding to that attached to life where remedial action is not feasible and responsible parties are indifferent.
• Legality: Respect for law will be set aside, or only valued locally. The early evidence of this can be seen in the attitude towards international law of the leadership of the Coalition of the Willing -- and the their reflection of this attitude in national legislative measures constraining human rights.
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• decision-making systems ***

The above all point to the emergence of a far more disorderly ("organic") approach to change. This may well be perceived as a regrettable failure to integrate valuable insights and approaches to change developed in association with the other "winds". The latter can however be said to have had their opportunity -- and vast resources in support of it -- and to have failed to develop that opportunity appropriately. It is their systemic negligence that is evoking the "incoherent" remedial response of the "South Wind".

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