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The Global Imperative
The Global Imperative is the common earthbound framework that all contemporary human beings share, and this provides the foundation for the rise of a pan-human, universal meta-cultural system that is sufficiently adapted to the problem set posed by the global imperative. The global imperative is the common situation of the human species to its cultural adaptation upon the earth.
There are significant problem sets related to defining the global imperative in a manner that provides an organized charter for human action and adaptive response. Chief among these problem sets are:
Overpopulation
Socio-environmental Circumscription
Supersaturation and developmental disruption of Global Ecosystems
Rise and promotion of Militarism and Violence
Development of Authoritarian Social Systems
Gross inequality in resource distribution.
Underdevelopment of sustainable resources and overdevelopment of non-sustainable and environmentally destructive resource systems.
While the complex interrelationship and overlap of these problem sets should go without mention, as well as the myriad auxiliary problems that are spin-offs or indirectly associated with these, the systemic nature of these problem sets, as the basis of the global imperative, cannot be overemphasized, especially during these times when there is a prevailing tendency to ignore most of these problems on a daily basis, and to fail to find their relevancy to our everyday lives except in some vague and abstract sense.
The global imperative can be said therefore, to be the common problem set that we all confront in our contemporary framework, and that will increasingly plague us in the future. It provides a common set of objectives and goals about which humankind can and must achieve some sense of united purpose and transcendant social organization that is capable finally of overcoming the differences and conflict that divides humankind into different and often hostile camps.
The global imperative also defines the central focus for the application of alternative anthropology, namely to the construction and development of alternative human cultural systems that will provide for humankind a common set of tools, a basis, for the resolution of the problems posed by the global imperative in a manner favorable for long-term human and biological survival on the earth.
Stewardship of the earth has become the central earthbound responsibility of humankind. The capacity for human kind to realize this sense of stewardship of earth, whether in part or in whole, will be a direct measure of the success we achieve in overcoming the global imperative. This stewardship occurs at multiple levels, and in multiple ways, and is as complex as the problems it must resolve and cope with.
The links to the primary portals of this framework are found below:
