The world's collective political and socio-economic experience is still firmly rooted in Western ideologies that began their evolution during the 14th Century and has continued until the present day. I believe the Modern Industrial Era will also conclude with economic decline and deadly diseases that will ravish the human population.The emergence of Global Economic Interaction and high tech industrial capacity have rendered current political and socio-economic problem solving strategies obsolete. Any political or economic strategy that does not incorporate Global Economic interaction as its guiding principle is doomed to fail.
Past economic transitions were primarily single staged or dual staged, national or continental in their impact and scope. This new transition is multi-staged and global. Therefore, little or no empirical data exist that can accurately measure its effect on socio-economic or political systems. A global socio-economic transition of this magnitude has never occurred before in world history. Therefore, theorems must be discovered and developed, before they can be taught to others.
Political leaders and socio-economic planners who do not understand or realize the implications of Global Economic Interaction, could be promoting solution concepts and strategies that might have devastating long term consequences if they were enacted.
Major psychological and philosophical changes must be made in order to incorporate this new socio-economic development into our reality systems. Monumental intellectual adjustments must take place similar to one that had to occur when science proved the world is round; instead of flat.
"Flat Earth" conceptualizations immediately became obsolete. The same is true for socio-economic concepts developed during the Modern Industrial Era. The evidence is overwhelming that most municipal leaders are trying to solve multi-dimensional problems with antique solution strategies.
These strategies and concepts are based on the accumulated knowledge and experience of the past 600 years. They are hopelessly inadequate and powerless to deal with 21st Century socio-economic reality. Many municipal leaders do not realize 21st Century problems can not be solved with 19th or 20th Century strategies.
These problems require the development of a much more advanced socio-economic solution concept that is based on 21st Century Global Economic Interaction. Any attempt to ignore or diminish the importance of Global Economic Interaction will lead to disaster.
Therefore, in order to avoid certain catastrophy, municipal leaders must reach the next level of leadership; which is governing in the Age of Global Economic Interaction. This kind of interaction creates multi-dimensional problems that will defy traditional problem solving approaches and solution concepts. Integrated solutions are required to solve multi-dimensional problems.
Before integrated solution concepts can be developed and implemented, a transition must be made from passive, dictatorial or intrusive government to activist or cooperative government. This is the only way obsolete linear solution strategies can be replaced with multi-dimensional program solutions.
Different data gathering techniques must be used to accumulate more relevant information for problem solving purposes. Too many lives are at stake to do otherwise. Our cities and towns are on the verge of becoming battle grounds because most municipal leaders do not realize the traditional relationship between government, the people and the environment has changed.
Millions of dollars are currently being wasted on out dated program concepts that will not effect long term solutions. In fact, using obsolete concepts will actually aggravate socio-economic problems. In order to develop permanent cost effective solution concepts, municipal leaders must plug the entire community into the decision making process. Greater community involvement and participation is the most effective way to develop integrated or holistic solution strategies.
Dynamic Citizenship is necessary in order to build an organizational structure entire communities can work within effectively. It is virtually impossible to create, implement and manage integrated solution strategies without effective community organization. Initiating this process will create an active municipal government that is far more responsive and sensitive to community needs.
Mastering this process is the key that unlocks the door to the next level of municipal leadership. Integrated Socio-economics is a concept that best describes the cooperative relationhip between government, private enterprise and the community. In the Age of Global Economic Interaction and high tech industrial capacity, this holistic approach to solving municipal problems is the only long term solution strategy that will work.
By using holistic or integrated problem solving strategies, municipal leaders can establish the means by which more people can take advantage of wealth creation systems, increase overall productivity, stimulate their local economy, increase income for minority or impoverished residents, and develop cyclic revenue systems. With these strategies, individuals either alone, or collectively in groups, can acquire or create new businesses and opportunities where none currently exist.
Recycling revenue; combined with, cooperation from citizens, non government institutions, community action groups, associations, labor unions, the state legislature and the business community can dramatically reduce the need for Federal programs and/or subsidies.
Since this relationship is not static, it will be much more dynamic and effective. Once the unemployment problem has been addressed, the same coalition can tackle much more complicated social issues. Such problems as health care cost, crime prevention, substance abuse, infrastructure deterioration and reducing welfare expeditures can be handled far more efficiently and cost effectively through local coalitions than by cumbersome Federal bureaucracies.
Businesses, government and the community working together in harmony is the cornerstone of Integrated Socio-economics. Residents in America's towns and cities must stop looking to the Federal government to solve their municipal problems. In many instances, the human resource potential in each municipality has yet to be tapped. Through effective human resource utilization and management, people with limited or no business or marketing skills can be shown how to earn money, position income producing enterprises and use wealth creation strategies.
Integrated Socio-economics offers the best possible concept for resurrecting impoverished minority communities. Many of the nation's leading economist and financial experts are still bogged down in obsolete economic policies and concepts; which are hopelessly inadequate to deal with Global Economic Interaction. There is nothing in their backgrounds or education that could have prepared them for the Global Economic Age.
The institutions they have been apart of for years are slowly disintegrating before their eyes and they are having difficulty preventing further decline. Most economist do not yet understand the nature of the problems society is facing. Federal policies designed to stimulate the economy out of recession will have little or no impact in small to mid-sized towns and cities.
Pork barrel politicking at the state and/or national level, diverts available financial resources into areas and localities that benefit a small select group of people. Communites needing help the most, may never see any real financial aid. Well entrenched special interest can suck millions of dollars out of treasuries to benefit narrowly defined interests.
These interests may have nothing to do with real municipal needs. Many legislators do not have the political will to end PAC influence. Pleading to them is a waste of time. A small group of people can now manipulate world security markets and currency markets. Traditional economic indicators are no longer reliable. Economic decline is much worse than we imagine.
Therefore, community wide cyclic wealth creating systems must be developed. Most ethnic and racial groups have grown impatient with waiting for economic parity and equal opportunity in America's municipalities. There is no way to address this issue with out restructuring wealth creation and educating miniority communities.
In order to correct this problem, more citizens must get involved and participate in the solution seeking process. Coming together and working together is the only way we; as citizens, can save our communities and salvage a future for our children. Community involvement and participation is the essence of the next level citizenship.
Other basic community issues like education, crime prevention, unemployment, reducing the welfare roles and increasing individually and collectively overall community wealth, can all be addressed; if and when, the citizenry sincerely desires a solution.
The ultimate goal of Integrated Socioeconomics is to empower and encourage ordinary people to develop plans and methods to solve common community problems. It is the only solution concept that will involve the entire community.
Alternative strategies and concepts must be utilized and organized into a comprehensive systematic approach. Integrated Socio-economics combined with Dynamic Citizenship is the next level of community development.
Just as governing in a Global Economic environment is the next level of government leadership, living and working in a Global Economic environment is the next level of community development.
As citizens, we must hold ourselves and those we select and elect to lead us accountable for their actions or lack of action. We can not relinquish our responsibilities to our communities and our fellow citizens. We are each other's keeper. Therefore, in order to reclaim our communities and our children, we must embark, take bold action and break new ground in an old area, community development.
