Is consensus key?

Is consensus key?

Throughout evolution, competition for survival has been only one side of the story. Mutual aid has been the other side.

Mitochondria evolved from a symbiotic relationship in which the earliest cells contributed raw materials, and bacteria contributed energy. Later on, early humans cooperated in hunting, migration, and child care.

Language can also build bridges among human beings. The functional hierarchies in living organisms do not work the same way as the hierarchies of values or social classes in human societies. The latter reflects an instinct for dominance so as to satisfy their own needs. Information goes top down.

In living organisms, higher levels subsume the levels below, but don’t control them. They simply inform them of the needs of the organism as a whole. Lower levels make the metabolic needs of their group known. Thus, information travels in both directions. Human societies based on consensus decision-making are supposed to work the same way.

In 200, the world population was estimated to be about 200 million. In 1800 that was 1 billion. Now it is over 7 billion.

Focused attention on something by only V(1% of a group) will start a shift in feelings about that issue in that group.

This number is now ≈8000, and also the number of people controlling ≈80% of the global assets available to men.

Will the shift into the other half of our Galaxy enable us to shift from a unilateral, where the USA plays a very dominant role to a multi-lateral society where the global power is equally shared by the East and the West?