Is a Nature-dependent, Consensus-based, Democratic Society Is a Nature-dependent, Consensus-based, Democratic Society the Only Way to Ensure Social Harmony & Environmental the Only Way to Ensure Social Harmony & Environmental Sustainability? Sustainability? ~Applying the Arkhelogy~Applying the ArkhelogySMSM Approach~ Approach~

Jennifer Van Bergen – Oct. 2011Vermont Law School, LL.M. Seminar, Prof. Craig Pease

Nature-dependent Nature-dependent

==

no reliance on technology or no reliance on technology or man-made conveniencesman-made conveniences

Democratic =

Everyone has a say

A sustainable ecosystem is

Biologically diverse Available acreage for roaming

and expansion Available unpolluted water source Limited or controlled human

activity.

http://www.ehow.com/facts_7398138_sustainable-ecosystem_.html

Environmentally Sustainable

The ArkhelogyArkhelogySM SM Approach

Preliminary steps:

(1) Question(2) Example(3) Action-statement

Formation steps:

(4) Ectype sentence(5) Isotype work(6) Archetype formation

Applying the ArkhelogyArkhelogySM SM Approach to the Thesis

Question: What form of government is environmentally sustainable, promotes human rights and social harmony, and allows consensus-based, democratic decision-making?

Example: Our system is a democracy.

Change to Action-Statement: In our system, we all have the right to vote, individual rights and private property ownership are protected (etc.)

Applying the ArkhelogyArkhelogySM SM Approach to the Thesis (cont'd)

Ectype sentence: This is the form of government that protects individual rights to vote, due process, private property ownership (etc.)

Isotype work: What other examples can I find of this ectype? What are the important operating principles of this ectype? What are other essential features of this ectype?

ArkhelogyArkhelogySM SM is multi-prongedis multi-pronged

Newquestion

Reframedisotype

Question

Ectype sentence

Archetype

ReframedEctype

sentence

Reframedquestion

Isotype

Isotype

Action statement

ExampleAdd'l

isotype info

Add'lIsotype

info

Actionstatement

Must it bedemocratic?

Maasai?

Property shared?

This is the system

that.....

Nature-dependentConsensus-based

Democraticsystem

This is thesystem that...

Does it need to be Nature-based?

consensus-based?

Other likesystems?

Other likesystems?

This gov't does this....

Democracy What else doesGreat Binding Law

contain?

Hopi's?

The gov't DOES this...

Socialism

ArkhelogySM is also a process of distillation:

We start a thing, something we observe in the world: say, a sphere.

We define it by what it does:It rotates.

Spheres can rotate, revolve, roll, or spin.

Process of distillation

• We restate it as an ectype: the sphere spins around a line-point. The line-point (axis) is that around which the sphere spins.

Isotypes

• We find other things the same. It is the point around which a thing spins.

Isotype work

One can ask: what are other examples of the principle of spin, or the principle of an axis, or that of balance.

Note that we are not comparing spheres.

We are extracting something the sphere DOES – it's action-principle – and finding other examples of things that do the same thing.

An archetype containsan action-principle.

Balance

When an archetype is accurately embodied,it is instantly re-absorbed into the world of possibilities.

You know it because it comes full circle.

Doing archetype work always brings you to the bottom line, the last possibility.

The only environmentally sustainable human social system:

A nature-dependent, consensus-based democratic system.