by
Mother's Service Society and
Roy Posner
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Social Evolution -- Humanity has
evolved from a society mainly concerned with physical realities, such as
survival, fears and threats from without, and complete deference to authority, to one
engaged in vital interests, such as expansion, trade, travel, social interaction
with others, and the concern for our own individual needs, wants, and desires, to the
present emerging mental stage where peace, freedom, democracy, the
fulfillment and empowerment of the individual, the emergence of fast, complex
organization, and the extraordinary power of thought to shape our world for endless
progress emerges.
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Internet Reflects Mental Stage of
Social Evolution -- The Internet is a reflection of the social evolution of our
society in the current mental age -- by its empowerment of individuals (including
unlimited means for individual creativity and self-expression), through new and vibrant
organizational complexity, and its ability to unleash fresh energies by adopting personal
and societal values.
- Development as a Process -- Development is a
process not a program. Development is not the result of a set of policies or programs. It
is the result of a process by which society moves from lesser to greater levels of energy,
efficiency, quality, productivity, complexity, comprehension, creativity, enjoyment and
accomplishment.
- Making the Process of Development Conscious --
The natural process of development is unconscious. It proceeds by a slow, cumbersome,
trial and error process from experience to knowledge. Conscious development moves in the
other direction from knowledge to experience. The more conscious the process, the more
rapid the progress.
- Individual and Social Development Processes Similar
-- Just as an individual's choice to rise to the next level can enable that person to
achieve in a matter of months what may have normally taken a lifetime, so too society's
choice to move to a higher level enables it to accomplished in months or a few years what
would have normally taken decades or even centuries.
(The same process principles are applicable to development of the
individual, the organization and the society.)
- The Process of Social Development -- There are
three essential stages in the process of development. In the first stage the society is
prepared to move to a higher level of development through its surplus energies, awareness
of possibilities, and its aspiration to see the possibilities through. In the second stage
pioneer individuals in society express the aspiration in various ways. Finally, in
the third stage the initiative of pioneering individuals are accepted, organized, and
integrated in society.
- Acceptance and Assimilation
-The new initiative accepted buy society is matched by new, more complex forms of
organization to help manifest the initiative
-The movement of development becomes institutionalized throughout
society (such as
though education).
-the development is further institutionalized though the culture of the family.
- Development as Complex Organization
-- Society grows and develops by introducing new, more advanced and complex forms of
organizations so it can better use its energies.
- Values and Organization -- Values are the
ultimate determinant of the quality of the complexity of an organization.
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Human Choice -- While greater
opportunities, awareness, improved skills, greater knowledge, and other factors are part
of a process that enables a society or an individual to rise to higher levels of
achievement, it is the choice to rise to a higher level that is the ultimate
determinant.
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Society's Encouragement of Human Choice
-- Those societies whose citizens are encouraged to engage in the fullest and most
enlightened exercise of choice will have the greatest potential for development.
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Catalysts for Social Development --
Peace, social stability, democracy,
the
increasing velocity of social transactions, the rate of
adoption of new technologies, and
global
influences and opportunities are catalysts for social
development.
- Barriers to Social Development -- When society seeks to move to the next higher stage of
development, existing beliefs, attitudes, behaviors and forms of organization become
obstacles that have to be overcome in order for the transition to take place. Progression
to each further stage involves a change in attitude and life style.
- Social Development Ideas as Aid in Social Development
Work -- In any endeavor related to social development (scientist, planner, educator,
social scientist, politician, health official, government agent, etc.) all of the above
factors should be taken into consideration when developing plans, projects, and
initiatives so that they will end in optimal success in the shortest frame of time.
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