I offer an eclectic collection of blue papers for consideration of a proposal for the systematic implementation of a core set of design principles as the basis for fostering structural changes in the world that are eufunctional upon every level of systemic articulation . They would effectively lead to the strategic equilibriation of the global system during the next century. The initial implementation of the core design system is extremely cost effective and should be maximally efficient as such an optimal solution to our most pressing problems.

In this Blue Paper for Alternative Development, I put forward a set of goal structures and a definitive plan for their implementation. These are the serious goals I maintain for myself in seeking to come to live in New Zealand society at this time. I believe. I have reached a conclusion that knowledge creates responsibility and leads to action. No one, at whatever level of power or authority, can responsibly ignore a certain set of central and critical issues predominating in the world today and overshadowing our collective future. I believe New Zealand society is fundamentally more open as a system than the American system has become, which is a paradox, because as an island system it should by definition be more closed. Island systems, by remaining outside of the developmental context of continental systems, have a strategic advantage even though they tend to be circumscribed at every level.

Though these goals must inevitably be about power, and the management of power, I do not seek power for myself except the power to control my own independent destiny in some minimal and fundamental sense of free will and to secure an improved destiny for my daughter. I realize that if I am to be effective, then I must become a power broker on some level. I see this power brokerage as a spin-doctor that is defined within the parameters of my own independent sense of professional ethics as an anthropologist, which I take quite seriously.

My primary goals are to take care of my family in the best way I know how, and, especially to work to promote my daughter's best long-term interests. My means for accomplishing these primary goals are through my own professional-personal system that I have developed over the last year and will continue to develop. Beyond this I have no other personal-professional goals except those expressed within my system itself, and that are oriented and organized by my secondary goal structure.

My secondary goals are to attempt to develop in the large (global context) an effective solution to the primary predicament of humankind. I do not think this is an unrealistic set of goals, because this predicament is in general a realistic and overshadowing problem set for all humankind. It outweighs and predefines any other problem set or goal structure we may hold for ourselves. From a systems standpoint, it is a problem set of enormous complexity, but it is a problem set nonetheless that is capable of some kind of alternative finite solution.

In general, a systems theoretic approach construes this general global predicament at two levels, in terms of biological systems and human systems. It sees the global system operating between these two levels as having attained a complexly undetermined state of dynamic equilibrium based upon certain sets of primary factors. This equilibrium is established upon an energy system that is fundamentally in disharmony with the natural order of the earth's bio-geophysical cycles. Furthermore, the human system as a set of self-organizing structures has an innate drive towards saturation and circumscription of the environment at all levels. It suggests strongly the expectation of catastrophic global events occurring within the next century that create global systemic instability and disequilibrium. No one can predict the actual events to take place, when or how, or the ultimate outcomes of these events. They are essentially chaotic and stochastically determined events. They are likely to be instigated within human systems, but should have dramatic destructive consequences upon both the biological and human levels as we can understand these in terms of systems analysis.

It is therefore my secondary goal structure to attempt to directly address this issue, to understand these problem sets at all levels and to provide a working solution to it by means suggested in this proposal. A solution cannot be a cure, but a preventative system that has the net effect of expanding the limits of tolerance of the global system and raising its overall optima of equilibrium.

I believe I have worked out an effective solution for this general problem set, in theory at least. The challenge will be to implement such a solution in a strategically effective manner. From my own research and experience in military strategy, and my understanding and growing experience in economics and business, I propose that an indirect systems approach pursuing an alternative value strategy will accomplish these goals in a general sense.

Ultimately, I believe there is a fundamental convergence of my primary and secondary goals on several levels, such that my daughter's best long term interests are served by the world's best long term interests, and that the means for meeting the later are a means as well for serving the former sets of interests.

I realize that I must develop some kind of coalitional structures within a system in order to accomplish anything beyond my primary goals, even to accomplish much of the primary personal-professional goal structure itself.

I know that for myself, coalitional structures in the U.S. even on a very basic level are difficult to develop. Coalitional structures that do exist must be considered as primarily self-serving and spurious in the sense that Edward Sapir employed this term. Indeed, effective coalitional structures are impossible to develop in any larger sense especially for a person such as myself, for reasons that have to mainly do with fundamental aspects of competitive social structural relations governing this society that primarily and disproportionately favor those with coalitional structures and those with a characteriological predisposition that is semi-socio-pathological.

As an anthropologist, it is my conclusion that the fundamental structural patterning of American society today, as this is manifest in social relations, is diseased and therefore ultimately dysfunctional, if we accept certain meta-ethical standards as universally appropriate.

The system itself would not be very big in size, especially in its first phases of development, and would be primarily focused upon a larger international context. In fact, there is every reason for believing that the system in its core and basic aspects should be kept as minimal as possible, having to do both with the intrinsic efficiency of the structure and with its extrinsic strategic adaptability.

The nature of this boundary maintenance about the system is extremely critical, as it will determine ultimately an adaptive interface that will permit and promote the adaptive articulation of the system in other social, cross-cultural contexts. In its initial phase, it should be considered an experiment in a strict sense, hence the need for measured but flexible controls. Part of these controls, I believe, would be a need for a kind of core secrecy though this must be handled with extreme care. This sense of final control must be maintained strictly even in successive phases of its development.

My proposal is to work out within the intervening several months the main points of advanced systems design and application in each area that this might be pertinent to within the overall problem set. There is a common problem set in systems theory that can be factored down and analytically compartmentalized in a manner that encourages reintegration and integral solution for the entire set.

The point of this proposal is to:

1. discuss the nature and structure of the coalitional structures I propose to try to implement.

2. discuss the general outline and framework for advanced systems sience and alternative design application.

3. discuss a general strategic-tactical game plan for the implementation and integration of both coalitional structures & advanced systems research and development within the general program for alternative development.

The main point of alternative systems design applications are the following:

1. They increase the basis of our scientific knowledge in all areas.

2. They increase the basis for the application of this knowledge in all possible areas.

3. They lead to effective designs in alternative development that are in greater harmony with the natural order than the predominant world system and therefore are more efficient and, in the long run,

more powerful and effective than anything currently existing.

4. They foster structurally and socially a benign & symbiotically beneficial system within a system that serves to off-set the negative effects of the host system at global, regional and local levels without fundamentally displacing or disrupting the functional patterns of the host system at any level.

5. They are working systems in all senses, such that they can be streamlined for greater productivity and efficiency, while at the same time optimized for the maximization of human value.

The overall effect of the successful implementation of this research design proposal should be, in the structure of the long run, to help to increasingly stabilize a global system at all levels that is growing increasingly out of balance with itself, and to foster resonance patterns within the larger host system that my be harmonic and increasingly eufunctional to the long term stability of the system.

In essence, I am proposing the developmental differentiation of a core structural design principle, or a single integrated system of principles, in the studied application to real world problem sets. The core structure is outlined in the enclosed Blue Papers, and I will attempt to substantively flesh out and streamline their design application in the following period, leading probably to the publication of the Blue Book for Alternative Development.

I propose a three step development cycle, that begins with the system as I have been developing it. The first step is the extension and differentiation of the core structure into two sets of independent structures. The first is primarily an academic based structure that is devoted to advanced information systems science and its research operationalization. The second structure is basically an integrated Experimental Alternative Design Laboratory. Minimally, I can see this structure as situated upon a farm stead that incorporates all the basic facilites for the program. With the co-development of these two sets of structures, I propose the reintegration of these structures in the third step in the development and implementation of a series of project, programs and production cycles. I see these cycles as being bifurcated as well into project-programs and productions.

At the heart of the core system is a working model of advanced systems analysis. In doing the work on the natural systems theory, I come to the understanding of the similarity of principle and design underlying all naturally occurring systems, and I expect, to be found in most artificial systems as well. I believe this core system constitutes a theoretical paradigm governing all systems, hence its explication should be useful in the application of systems sciences at all levels.

The basis of advanced systems science approaches is its comprehensiveness of approach and its functional integration as working systems. Underlying the comprehensiveness is what appears to be a basic set of universal patterns of structural relations that can be mathematically modeled in approximate and general form. The basis of this is, I believe, that a systems approach is about systematic interrelations between things whoever we must define these things. On some level or another, these things involve some level of energy exchange or transfer. Often these energy transfer systems are multiplex. The identity and character of the things involved in these relational systems is to some extent determined by these systems. This allows us to map things at different levels as variables with continuous and even dissimilar values.