"Nothing is permanent but change" - Heraclitus
We have a problem. The problem lies in the heart of how people make decisions and the very fact that for the most part, we do not understand how we make them. The body of this work deals with how humans make decisions, and even though change is occurring, there is no guarantee that we will survive it.
Read any blog that pertains to a political story and you will see it. The hatred of politicians is growing stronger. Not just the those on the 'other' side of politics, but politicians in general. Every now and then they trundle out the mealy mouthed words of 'bipartisanship' and 'compromise', but never actually considering that new information might change their initial dogmatic perceived moral high ground. And if it wasn't enough that democracy itself is becoming more embittered, consider the absence of democracy, where despots simply make their opposition disappear, all the while smiling through the lens of international diplomacy, in a choreographed handshake and photo opportunity. A stage managed dispensation of international 'honour' to these tyrants, whilst at all levels, it's graft and corruption that dominate the apparatus of decision making in these dictatorships, as vast amounts of their nations wealth are diverted into offshore accounts, waiting for the day when the disparity between rich and poor is so great that people have nothing left to loose by waving plastic bags in front of a tank. And between countries, where the lack of transparency means even a voting citizenry can never really see what their governments are doing. Permeated by an endless barrage of political drivel and driven by a market of advertising sales and corporate hegemony, like a road accident we reluctantly pay attention, manipulated through anxiety, disgust, titillation and fear.
Even though a few of the more mindful can see that it is happening, the real problem is that we are not aware of why this is happening.
This is a conglomerate theory that looks at concepts of communication, which seem to be connected to an existing theory of consciousness, a theory that predated and predicts the current developments in the world, before moving into a new explanation of the different modalities of decision making from a simple historical viewpoint, and ultimately linking all this to a dynamical systems theory (chaos) account of the self as an emergent process based on the strange attractors of the autonomic nervous system and associated brain structures, a non-linear system that may be a self similar fractal between individual, the dyad and society, and which is both testable and falsifiable. Sorry, just wanted to see if I could get all that into one sentence.