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Developmental Context
Metaculture is all about human context, and human context is all about human systems in action. We refer generally to the developmental context as the central framework for comprehending the articulation of human metaculture. This context is treated holistically at the global level, and analytically upon the regional and local sub-levels at which it becomes phenomenally expressed in terms of the everyday lives of many different people in interaction to one another.
Development as a general systems problem set must be seen as being inherently multi-dimensional. We may refer to the problems of human development, and this only partly overlaps with issues concerning social development or technological development or agricultural development or cultural development. Development becomes therefore a very large and multi-faceted problem set. So, too, do solutions to problems presented by development become multi-faceted, and there has been a tendency to approach such problems from a standpoint of a specialized and delimited point of view, from a single perspective, and to ignore the systems relationships that connect such a problem to a larger set of issues in the world.
What is the developmental context of human metaculture? If we look out upon the world and seek to understand contemporary trends of the dynamics of large-scale social systems and the changes that are affecting the world, then we would get some sense of the context of development for human systems in general.
There occur competing worldview models, or paradigms, about global development. The predominant contemporary model of course is that of a neo-classical Capitalism that is being articulated principally by the US and the UK. Other European and Asian nations are beginning to articulate their own capitalist frameworks which must be considered to be hybrids and variants of this main model.
Modern warfare is increasingly an extension of economic policy, and this gives a new and reverse meaning to the idea of political economy. Politics follows economics increasingly--economic relations are no longer the hand-maiden of political parties and entities, but such entities derive their power increasingly through economic organization and capitalization.
The links to the primary portals of this framework are found below:
