Old vs New, Traditional vs Emergent Thinking

An old model of thinking comprises a command and control attitude from its core. It begs the question; how do I operate to gain the greatest benefit or profit for myself?

This form of thinking revolves around standardized inputs, controlling outputs, imposing design and trying to eliminate as many variables as possible.

Take for example, the notion of artificial scarcity in the money system. Money is created out of interest baring debt. Everyone is therefore in competition with everyone else for the fact that there's never enough money. Competition drives growth in products and services, but society can't sustain endless growth because we live in a finite context.

A new way of thinking is emerging that grows out of co-creation, cooperation and abundance. It creates out of an awareness of how thoughts, behavior and actions influence well being as well as the environment.

This mindset seeks out what it wants to happen and goes about working with others to co-create that outcome. We have models out there to help us with this transition, we just haven't learnt how to use them yet. For example, non-violent communication is a solution to ineffective communication that causes frustration and the inability to develop healthy relationships, yet it's not inherent in the world. Why?

It's because the traditional way we've been taught to communicate involves trying to 'get' the other person to understand us. This trying to 'get' money or 'get' understanding has developed out of an idea that there's something wrong (for eg. artificial scarcity). We therefore have to impose our need to 'get' in order to make the wrongness go away.

The scarcity that we experience on a world-wide scale is merely a matter of perception though. It is a mindset perception that prevents peace, understanding and connection. But the trend of increasing experiences of abundance is starting to influence more and more people around the globe - think technology and the internet and free online content, or growth in spiritual practices.

Small groups of people are starting to awaken to the fact that the belief systems that have carried us up to this point in evolution, no longer make sense.

Will the apparent disconnection between who we are and how we should live and what we consider as important to humanity lead to eventual systemic collapse? Or can we perhaps make the transition from old to new, traditional to emergent before such crisis takes place?