Hugh M

I have in my middle age sought an independent path through life in a world that knows little of compassion and much of prejudice and discrimination. This path has led me to develop for my remaining years an alternative minimalist framework for living and working that serves not only my own interests, but those of my family as well as a larger collective sense of common good in the world. I have sought thus to implement what I refer to as a comprehensive applied systems framework as the basis for both professional and existential integration of my limited resources in the world. I have been working hard these past few years to expand this framework to encompass a more comprehensive set of relationships to the world than what would have otherwise been allotted to me by those self-interested others who would play God with other people's lives.

I have had in my life a broad range of interests spanning the arts, literature, the sciences, social sciences, education and human development, gardening, woodworking and philosophy. This diverse and eclectic range of interests have in the last ten years coalesced into a focus in general and natural system theory and the project of developing alternative systems applications, projects and programs in the service of global integration and alternative human development.

Publications & Writing:
2009	"Symbolic Persuasion: The Social Politics of Everyday Living" in Press; Natural Systems Theory; Cat-Happenings; Astronomical Systems; Systems Compendium
2008	Physical Systems; Living Systems; Human Systems; Antigone
2007	General Systems; Star Night Chronicles
2006	"Golden Face: Cultural Reciprocity in the Articulation of Mainland Chinese Social Structure" Thunderbird International Business Review: 48-1: 9-24; Universal Systems; Seasons; Prospectus
2004	Field Theory; Systems Essays; Meta-science; Robidoux Chronicles; Systems Essays III
2003	Educational Essays; The Great Wall Revisited; American Essays; Recollections
2002	Digging the Past; Advanced Systems
2001	Meta-systems; Cosmology & Reality
2000	The Third Millennium; Witnessing Anthropology II; Natural Systems
1999	The Great Wall; Sojourner's Americana; A Room in China
1998	Robidoux History
1996	The Jetty People; Cognitive Development & Symbolic Differentiation; Culture; Cultural Cybernetics; Inter-correlational Analysis
1995	Earth Being; The Professional Pariah
1994	The Gold Chain; Trobriand Trial
1993	Southeast Asian Sources; Relativity & Relativism; Baba & Nonya; The Overseas Chinese; Anthropologos; Anthropologia
1992	The View of a Child's World; Peranakan; Witnessing Anthropology, Part I
1991	Earth-tidings; Earthworks; Earthbound Essays; Autodotes
1990	Miss Mahala's Miscellanea
1989	Buddha Babies; It Makes a Difference; The Political Economy of Nanyang Ethnicity; A Brief History of Nanyang Civilization
1988	Rosie's Poesy
1986	Ethno-Vietnameseness; A Theory of Humanology: A History of Vietnamese Civilization
1985	Anthropological Aesthetics
1984	Fragments
1983	Philosophy, Irrationality & Ideology
1982	Moments
1981	Reflections
1980	Military Dimensions; Dreams

The Photo's below depict various periods, places and faces of our life and work.