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The Idea of Social Ecosystem

What is a proper approach to develop the healthy social ecosystem? How priorities must be arranged in order to facilitate the creation of the healthy social ecosystem? Ultimately, what is the social ecosystem itself? Today we are going to answer these questions.

Let’s start from the end. Basically, the social ecosystem is nothing but a society tightly integrated to the natural ecosystem by means of natural, energy and economic turnover circles, where the psychological portrait of a person (its dual nature) is in the heart. Recently, I was talking about the chain effect and energy development. I intentionally considered the matter of energy development because it is the driving force of life and development. The complete natural energy circle allows the life within the natural ecosystem. The integrated anthropogenic (man-made) energy chains allow the development of the social ecosystem as a whole.

The concept of tight integration of the society to the natural ecosystem is vital, because healthy human beings, in all meanings of the word “healthy”, can develop only within the healthy natural ecosystem. When the natural ecosystem degrades, or human societies artificially distance themselves from the natural ecosystem and ignore the natural principles of life, they will gradually degrade. Here we must not understand the degradation of intrinsic capability to think, but the degradation of health and will. If we combine it with other anthropogenic and social factors, we will get different mental, psychological disorders and depressions, the weak society thus.

With this regard, it is important to make a remark about the role of technologies and education system. Technologies must always be considered as a toolset which can be used to facilitate the gradual improvement of living conditions and the creation of relevant safety system. To put in other words, technological development must be driven by the social needs: to feel safe and to improve life conditions by solving arising problems, without neglecting the natural ecosystem principles and without disrupting its turnover circles. Technologies must be used wisely and must be subdued to the purpose of gradual development of the social ecosystem. They must not be used as solely driving factors of social development, whatever marketers and advertisers say. Do not cram a baby with unhealthy and high-calorie stuff because it will grow ill. Feed it wisely.

The goal of the education system is not to cram babies with the knowledge only, but to teach them to synthesize constructive ideas using that knowledge and to facilitate the personal self-identification by using relevant stimulus and educational approaches. Here I am talking about the self-identification, not about the self-realization as per Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. The self-realization is the next step after the self-identification (what am I and what am I going to be – what is my life’s constructive idea?). You must first comprehend what you want to be (self-identification), let alone personal qualities, and thereafter you can use your knowledge and intelligence to develop yourself and implement your idea (self-realization). By the way, the Maslow’s hierarchy of needs has also dual nature – a person can develop itself constructively or climb up the stairs of needs as a totally destructive person.

In other words, the prime goal of the education system as a whole (the entire set of educational institutions, including a family) is not to grow an intelligent person, but to grow a self-identified person with the constructive thinking. This is because the dual nature of human beings – you can grow an intelligent person, but if you do not teach it to apply its intelligence constructively to generate constructive ideas and goals, which will drive the constructive development of the person itself and the social ecosystem as a whole, you cannot be sure whether it is the next Mozart or Caligula.

The healthy social ecosystem can be developed if it follows the three simple principles (the idea of social ecosystem):

1. Put the person’s psychological portrait in the heart of the social ecosystem. Comprehend and accept the dual nature of human being, its intrinsic constructive and destructive origins, and use social institutions, governance systems and economic measures to stimulate the development of constructive origins and to suppress the destructive origins;
2. Use the following priorities when valuing new ideas and development approaches: (1) a person (the social ecosystem), (2) the natural ecosystem, (3) the material value (profits). Do not allow the material value to drive the society – it facilitates the development of destructive origins and destroys all others values. You will not be able to earn and develop, even if survive, if the social and natural ecosystems are destroyed;
3. When you develop a new idea (a new system, a new law, a new financial instrument, etc.), you have to understand and evaluate how it can be abused first of all. Do not think naively that if you do not want to abuse it, then there is no other person in the world who may want to abuse it (see principle no. 1). Secure the relevant safety measures to reduce abuses and mitigate their side effects. There is no way to avoid abuses completely.