Here's the link:

The Year 2000: Social Chaos or Social Transformation?

Ray

-- Ray (ray@totacc.com), September 22, 1999

Answers

..."If the technical situation is bad, a somewhat more ominous situation could evolve. Government, exerting no clear positive leadership and seeing no alternative to chaos, cracks down so as not to lose control (a common historical response to social chaos has been for the government to intervene in non-democratic, sometimes brutal fashion). "Techno-fascism" is a plausible scenario -- governments and large corporations would intervene to try to contain the damage -- rather than build for the future. This dictatorial approach would be accompanied by secrecy about the real extent of the problem and ultimately fueled by the cries of distress, prior to 2000, from a society that has realized its major systems are about to fail and that it is too late to do anything about it.

Collaboration is our only choice

Obviously, the scenario worth working towards is "Human Spirit," a world where the best of human creativity is enabled and the highest common good becomes the objective. In this world we all work together, developing a very broad, powerful, synergistic, self- organizing force focused on determining what humanity should be doing in the next 18 months to plan for the aftermath of the down stroke of Y2K. This requires that we understand Y2K not as a technical problem, but as a systemic, worldwide event that can only be resolved by new social relationships. All of us need to become very wise and very engaged very fast and develop entirely new processes for working together. Systems issues cannot be resolved by hiding behind traditional boundaries or by clinging to competitive strategies. Systems require collaboration and the dissolution of existing boundaries. Our only hope for healthy responses to Y2K-induced failures is to participate together in new collaborative relationships.

At present, individuals and organizations are being encouraged to protect themselves, to focus on solving "their" problem. In a systems world, this is insane. The problems are not isolated, therefore no isolated responses will work. The longer we pursue strategies for individual survival, the less time we have to create any viable, systemic solutions. None of the boundaries weve created across industries, organizations, communities, or nation states give us any protection in the face of Y2K. We must stop the messages of fragmentation now and focus resources and leadership on figuring out how to engage everyone, at all levels, in all systems. ..."

-- Mara Wayne (MaraWAyne@aol.com), September 22, 1999.

A good link with great ideas on Social Transformation, and Y2K as opportunity for change see Tom Atley's:

http://www.co-intelligence.org

Co-intelligence Institute

-- Donna (moment@pacbell.net), September 22, 1999.

Wow. An article so one-sided it makes Gary North look like a paragon of objectivity. Except it sounds like the framework of the article was taken from North's essays, and the citations from his links.

I wonder who paid for this article? These "researchers" don't write these things for free.

-- Flint (flintc@mindspring.com), September 22, 1999.

Smells like NWO to me.

-- Porky (Porky@in.cellblockD), September 22, 1999.