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Walter Link, chair of the Global Academy and the Global Leadership Network.The Knowledge Society is a must read book for anyone wanting to make a positive difference in the world today. It offers a deep and meaningful explanation of what is happening today from an economic, social and spiritual perspective. It is a brilliant historical review illustrating systemically the many factors contributing to the challenges and opportunities we face today. Most significantly, it offers hope as it outlines what can, and must, be done to create planetary wellbeing – what its author Marc Luyckx Ghisi calls genuine sustainability. Dr. Diana Whitney, Author The Power of Appreciative Inquiry: A Practical Guide to Positive Change “When there is no vision, the people are unrestrained” Bible, Proverbs 29:18 A special “Merci” to Taly and Jacques Bourgoignie, who have so kindly proposed to translate this book Many thanks also to Roger Rueff, who has so kindly accepted to make the excellent final polishing of the English text. Many thanks also to Tom Spoors for his help and suggestions To Isabelle, my spouse To my children and children-in-law To all those who contributed to the draft and correction of this book, Gilles Ferreol, Charlotte Luyckx, Michel de Kemmeter, Anne de Ligne, Marie et Dominique Orban de Xivry, Luigi Petito To my French editors Stéphane Bleus and Xavier Barnich, in Luxembourg. And to my English editor, Mohan G. Nahair, in Cochin, Kerala, India BOOKS ALREADY PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR Au delà de la modernité, du Patriarcat et du capitalisme: la société réenchantée. L’Harmattan, Paris. 2001. (available on my blog. http://vision2020.canalblog.com ) "European Visions for the knowledge age: a quest for a New Horizon in the information society". Paul KIDD(Ed.) Cheshire Henbury, 2007. My contribution in this collective book is: "A win –win strategy for the European Union in the knowledge society”. La société de la connaissance: une nouvelle vision de l’économie et du politique Les éditions romaines, Luxembourg, 2007. http://www.leseditionsromaines.com/?pg=author&id=3 Table of Contents Walter Link, chair of the Global Academy and the Global Leadership Network. 6 Sam PITRODA 1 Foreword as Homage to Prof PRIGOGINE 3 THE PATH TOWARD GENUINE SUSTAINABILITY 5 PROLOGUE: A BRIEF FUTURE HISTORY OF THE WORLD (2000–2050) 9 The European model, a transmodern door to the 21st century 17 The creation of the International Security Agency (ISA) 18 PART ONE: ONE WORLD IS DYING 22 INTRODUCTION—THE FIVE LEVELS OF DEATH IN SOCIETY 23 CHAPTER 1: DANGER OF DEATH AND COLLECTIVE SUICIDE 26 Black is in fashion 28 “Is it the end of France?“ 28 Of the difficulty to accept changes at the Renaissance—Justus Lipsius 28 Conservatism and powerlessness of the soul— Vaclav Havel 30 Conclusions from Chapter 1 31 CHAPTER 2: THE DEATH OF PATRIARCHY 32 The birth of patriarchy—a new narration of the origin 33 A new interpretation of ”original sin”? 35 The passage from matrifocal to patriarchal 36 The crime is perfect 39 By opening the past, one opens the future. 39 Death of patriarchy 39 Conclusions from Chapter 2 40 CHAPTER 3: MODERNITY IS DEAD 42 A definition of paradigms 42 What is the meaning of the modern paradigm? 43 Why is the modern paradigm dead? 44 A new supreme value—to save the planet 45 Shortcomings of the analytical method 45 To change a paradigm is difficult… and is also dangerous. 47 Conclusions from Chapter 3 48 CHAPTER 4: THE DEATH OF INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY 49 The death of the “industrial society” 49 Death of the “modern” concept of development 52 Conclusion of Chapter 4 53 CHAPTER 5: THE DEATH OF THE PYRAMIDAL STRUCTURES 55 Death of the pyramidal structures 55 Death of the “modern” State hegemony 56 Refusal of the pyramidal power 57 Relativisation of the sovereignty of the State from above—the European Union. 58 Relativisation “from below”—cities, regions, and civil society 59 Conclusions from Chapter 5 60 CONCLUSIONS FROM PART ONE 61 PART TWO: THE KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY 63 CHAPTER 6: THE TRANSITION TO THE NEW SOCIETY 64 No, this is not a change of the dominant empire. The crisis is deeper. 67 The last curve—the transmodern knowledge society 68 The horizontal arrow—businesses jumping toward the new society 69 The five levels of rebirth 70 CHAPTER 7: THE KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY—A POSITIVE SCENARIO 73 A sharp transformation 74 A new production tool 74 A knowledge market 75 Looking for knowledge economics 75 The knowledge society—a new post-capitalistic logic 80 ASKO—Management of the website of the European Commission. 81 The differences between the industrial and knowledge societies 83 Power 84 Structure 84 The role of the CEO 85 Secrets… and patents 87 Management 88 Trade and sharing 90 Trade and competition 92 Creation of economic value and the new production tool—the human mind 93 Measurement of value 94 Definition of “economy” 97 Symbolism of money 97 Definition of “work” 98 Social inclusion 99 Education 100 Role of culture 101 Sustainability of progress 101 Sustainability among intangible assets 102 Society goals 103 Conclusions from Chapter 7 104 CHAPTER 8: THE KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY—A NEGATIVE SCENARIO 105 What do to about the environment? 106 The Lisbon II strategy—a return to the industrial society? 106 What to do with humans? 107 A meeting of the European Commission on scientific policy 108 Engineering of the human brain? 113 Innovative and critical position of the European Commission 115 Conclusions from Chapter 8 117 CHAPTER 9: THE KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY—TRANSMODERN AND PLANETARY 121 The matrifocal before the patriarchal 125 Pre-modernity, agrarian period—“The Angelus” by Millet 125 What is modernity? 127 New ideas of space with perspective and geometry 127 New mechanical time—the clock 128 Postmodernity, the last avatar of modernity 134 What is the transmodern vision? 135 Knowledge society is transmodern 136 Time, space, matter and consciousness 136 Disposition of power in networks 140 The future of “clergies” 140 The main occupation—the knowledge economy 141 The concept of Truth 141 The scientific method 143 The future of science and technology in the knowledge society 144 Personal and structural violence 145 Spiritual dimension in public—religions and society 146 Life after death 146 The sacredness of the body 147 The return of the right brain—balance 147 Conclusions from Chapter 9 148 CHAPTER 10: THE KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY IS POST-PATRIARCHAL 149 Conclusions from Chapter 10 151 CHAPTER 11: KNOWLEDGE-SOCIETY VALUES ARE ALREADY EVERYWHERE 152 The subconscious refusal of death is the real engine of change 153 The law of “complexity consciousness“ 155 The inquiry on the “cultural creatives” 156 66% are women—they silently lead the change 157 The values of the cultural creatives 157 The behaviours of the cultural creatives 159 One never” forces” anybody to change paradigm—it is impossible to do so 160 Paul Ray’s inquiry in Europe 161 The cultural creatives in Europe—the same trend as the U.S. 162 A hundred million cultural creatives in the European Union! 162 A smaller proportion of “cultural creatives” in France? 162 In Italy, the tidal wave—80% 163 Opening to the world change in businesses and in Eastern Europe 163 Existence of cultural creatives in Japan 164 Existence of cultural creatives in China? 166 Existence of cultural creatives in the Muslim world 166 Conclusions from Chapter 11 168 CHAPTER 12: TOOLS FOR GENUINE SUSTAINABILITY 170 What is genuine sustainability? 170 We have the tools 170 Sustainability becomes a very important intangible asset 171 A win-win logic is possible between environment and profit 171 And we have a new concept of qualitative progress in hands 171 The political tools of the 21st century 172 FINAL THOUGHTS 174 APPENDIX 1: 176 THE GROWING IMPORTANCE OF INTANGIBLE ASSETS IN THE STOCK MARKETS 176 Double standard 176 Lack of theory 178 Intangible assets—three dimensions 178 Ethics (values and purpose) are back in the picture 180 Intangibles are future oriented—hence their importance for stock markets 181 Accounting is dead—the problem is urgent for the banking community 181 How to measure intangible assets—two paths 182 Intangible assets are becoming more important every day 183 Sustainability and social inclusion increase their shares in intangibles 185 Stock market analysts are measuring intangibles... every day 185 APPENDIX 2: 186 ANALYSIS OF THE PARADIGMS 186 Paradigm analysis as a means of fostering tolerance and reducing violence 186 The three basic paradigms 186 The pre-modern (or agrarian) vision of life 186 The modern vision 189 Where are the “moderns”? 193 The postmodern offshoot 194 The transmodern (planetary) vision 195 Where are the Planetarians? 198 Conclusion—Which one is your vision of life (your paradigm)? 198 APPENDIX 3: 199 MY OWN EXPERIENCE OF RE-ENCHANTMENT 199 The first discovery 199 The contract 199 Feeling lost 200 A light in the tunnel 200 Out of the tunnel—the re-enchantment of the vision 202 The shadow of my own re-enchantment 204 Ilya Prigogine and the new science 205 Discovering the “cultural creatives” 207 Meeting Willis Harman and Avon Mattison 207 Meeting Paul H. Ray 208 Women and the sacred—another earthquake 209 Meeting Sherry Anderson 209 Meeting Riane Eisler 209 Inviting Hazel Henderson in the European Commission in Brussels 210 Final reflections on my experience of re-enchantment 211 LIST OF QUOTED BOOKS 212 Foreword : Sam PITRODA, Knowledge Commission of India 1 Preface Vittorio Prodi, Member of the European Parliament, Brussels…………………….2 Foreword as Homage to Prof PRIGOGINE………………………………………………...3 THE PATH TOWARD GENUINE SUSTAINABILITY 5 PROLOGUE:A BRIEF FUTURE HISTORY OF THE WORLD (2000–2050) 9 The European model, a transmodern door to the 21st century 17 The creation of the International Security Agency (ISA) 18 PART ONE: ONE WORLD IS DYING 22 INTRODUCTION—THE FIVE LEVELS OF DEATH IN SOCIETY 23 CHAPTER 1: DANGER OF DEATH AND COLLECTIVE SUICIDE 26 Black is in fashion 28 “Is it the end of France?“ 28 Of the difficulty to accept changes at the Renaissance—Justus Lipsius 28 Conservatism and powerlessness of the soul— Vaclav Havel 30 Conclusions from Chapter 1 31 CHAPTER 2: THE DEATH OF PATRIARCHY 32 The birth of patriarchy—a new narration of the origin 33 A new interpretation of ”original sin”? 35 The passage from matrifocal to patriarchal 36 The crime is perfect 39 By opening the past, one opens the future. 39 Death of patriarchy 39 Conclusions from Chapter 2 40 CHAPTER 3: MODERNITY IS DEAD 42 A definition of paradigms 42 What is the meaning of the modern paradigm? 43 Why is the modern paradigm dead? 44 A new supreme value—to save the planet 45 Shortcomings of the analytical method 45 To change a paradigm is difficult… and is also dangerous. 47 Conclusions from Chapter 3 48 CHAPTER 4: THE DEATH OF INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY 49 The death of the “industrial society” 49 Death of the “modern” concept of development 52 Conclusion of Chapter 4 53 CHAPTER 5: THE DEATH OF THE PYRAMIDAL STRUCTURES 55 Death of the pyramidal structures 55 Death of the “modern” State hegemony 56 Refusal of the pyramidal power 57 Relativisation of the sovereignty of the State from above—the European Union. 58 Relativisation “from below”—cities, regions, and civil society 59 Conclusions from Chapter 5 60 CONCLUSIONS FROM PART ONE 61 PART TWO: THE KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY 63 CHAPTER 6: THE TRANSITION TO THE NEW SOCIETY 64 No, this is not a change of the dominant empire. The crisis is deeper. 67 The last curve—the transmodern knowledge society 68 The horizontal arrow—businesses jumping toward the new society 69 The five levels of rebirth 70 CHAPTER 7: THE KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY—A POSITIVE SCENARIO 73 A sharp transformation 73 A new production tool 74 A knowledge market 75 Looking for knowledge economics 75 The knowledge society—a new post-capitalistic logic 80 ASKO—Management of the website of the European Commission. 81 The differences between the industrial and knowledge societies 83 Power 84 Structure 84 The role of the CEO 85 Secrets… and patents 87 Management 88 Trade and sharing 90 Trade and competition 92 Creation of economic value and the new production tool—the human mind 93 Measurement of value 94 Definition of “economy” 97 Symbolism of money 97 Definition of “work” 98 Social inclusion 99 Education 100 Role of culture 101 Sustainability of progress 101 Sustainability among intangible assets 102 Society goals 103 Conclusions from Chapter 7 104 CHAPTER 8: THE KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY—A NEGATIVE SCENARIO 105 What do to about the environment? 106 The Lisbon II strategy—a return to the industrial society? 106 What to do with humans? 107 A meeting of the European Commission on scientific policy 108 Engineering of the human brain? 113 Innovative and critical position of the European Commission 115 Conclusions from Chapter 8 117 CHAPTER 9: THE KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY—TRANSMODERN AND PLANETARY 121 The matrifocal before the patriarchal 125 Pre-modernity, agrarian period—“The Angelus” by Millet 125 What is modernity? 127 New ideas of space with perspective and geometry 127 New mechanical time—the clock 128 Postmodernity, the last avatar of modernity 134 What is the transmodern vision? 135 Knowledge society is transmodern 136 Time, space, matter and consciousness 136 Disposition of power in networks 139 The future of “clergies” 140 The main occupation—the knowledge economy 140 The concept of Truth 140 The scientific method 143 The future of science and technology in the knowledge society 143 Personal and structural violence 144 Spiritual dimension in public—religions and society 145 Life after death 146 The sacredness of the body 146 The return of the right brain—balance 147 Conclusions from Chapter 9 147 CHAPTER 10: THE KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY IS POST-PATRIARCHAL 149 Conclusions from Chapter 10 151 CHAPTER 11: KNOWLEDGE-SOCIETY VALUES ARE ALREADY EVERYWHERE 152 The subconscious refusal of death is the real engine of change 153 The law of “complexity consciousness“ 154 The inquiry on the “cultural creatives” 156 66% are women—they silently lead the change 157 The values of the cultural creatives 157 The behaviours of the cultural creatives 159 One never” forces” anybody to change paradigm—it is impossible to do so 160 Paul Ray’s inquiry in Europe 161 The cultural creatives in Europe—the same trend as the U.S. 162 A hundred million cultural creatives in the European Union! 162 A smaller proportion of “cultural creatives” in France? 162 In Italy, the tidal wave—80% 163 Opening to the world change in businesses and in Eastern Europe 163 Existence of cultural creatives in Japan 163 Existence of cultural creatives in China? 166 Existence of cultural creatives in the Muslim world 166 Conclusions from Chapter 11 168 CHAPTER 12: TOOLS FOR GENUINE SUSTAINABILITY 170 What is genuine sustainability? 170 We have the tools 170 Sustainability becomes a very important intangible asset 171 A win-win logic is possible between environment and profit 171 And we have a new concept of qualitative progress in hands 171 The political tools of the 21st century 172 FINAL THOUGHTS 174 APPENDIX 1: 176 THE GROWING IMPORTANCE OF INTANGIBLE ASSETS IN THE STOCK MARKETS 176 Double standard 176 Lack of theory 178 Intangible assets—three dimensions 178 Ethics (values and purpose) are back in the picture 180 Intangibles are future oriented—hence their importance for stock markets 181 Accounting is dead—the problem is urgent for the banking community 182 How to measure intangible assets—two paths 182 Intangible assets are becoming more important every day 183 Sustainability and social inclusion increase their shares in intangibles 185 Stock market analysts are measuring intangibles... every day 185 APPENDIX 2: 187 ANALYSIS OF THE PARADIGMS 187 Paradigm analysis as a means of fostering tolerance and reducing violence 187 The three basic paradigms 187 The pre-modern (or agrarian) vision of life 188 The modern vision 190 Where are the “moderns”? 194 The postmodern offshoot 195 The transmodern (planetary) vision 196 Where are the Planetarians? 199 Conclusion—Which one is your vision of life (your paradigm)? 199 APPENDIX 3: 200 MY OWN EXPERIENCE OF RE-ENCHANTMENT 200 The first discovery 200 The contract 200 Feeling lost 201 A light in the tunnel 201 Out of the tunnel—the re-enchantment of the vision 203 The shadow of my own re-enchantment 205 Ilya Prigogine and the new science 206 Discovering the “cultural creatives” 208 Meeting Willis Harman and Avon Mattison 208 Meeting Paul H. Ray 209 Women and the sacred—another earthquake 210 Meeting Sherry Anderson 210 Meeting Riane Eisler 210 Inviting Hazel Henderson in the European Commission in Brussels 211 Final reflections on my experience of re-enchantment 212 LIST OF QUOTED BOOKS 213 FOREWORD In the next few decades India will probably have the largest set of young people in the world. Given this demographic advantage over the countries of the West and even China, India is optimally positioned, in the words of our Prime Minister, to "leapfrog in the race for social and economic development" by establishing a knowledge-oriented paradigm of development. Marc Luyckx Ghisi’s book on “The Knowledge Society” is giving new global insights and new visions of this Knowledge oriented paradigm. We are, according to him, in a huge cultural change worldwide towards a new society. This Knowledge Society is, in fact, a different paradigm, centred more on humans than on machines. It is also possibly genuinely sustainable. So that the real race in a global world today, is for understanding and adapting to this new vision of economy, education, governance, business, intangible assets in the stock markets, and even defence and security. For the moment nothing is decided. The winners of yesterday are not necessarily the winners of tomorrow, because the equation is completely new. I am happy to recommend the reading of Marc Luyckx Ghisi’s book as a challenge for everyone. This book is enriching the debate inside the Knowledge commission, and opens for India interesting perspectives for the future. |
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