Licha ya matangazo na kauli mbiu za sasa, ulimwengu haubadilishi mtu mmoja kwa wakati mmoja. Hubadilika jinsi mitandao ya mahusiano inavyoundwa miongoni mwa watu wanaogundua wanashiriki sababu ya kawaida na maono ya kile kinachowezekana. Hii ni habari njema kwa wale wetu wanaokusudia kubadilisha ulimwengu na kuunda mustakabali mzuri. Badala ya kuwa na wasiwasi juu ya misa muhimu, kazi yetu ni kukuza miunganisho muhimu. Hatuhitaji kushawishi idadi kubwa ya watu kubadilika; badala yake, tunahitaji kuunganishwa na roho za jamaa. Kupitia mahusiano haya, tutakuza maarifa mapya, mazoea, ujasiri, na kujitolea ambayo husababisha mabadiliko mapana.
Lakini mitandao sio hadithi nzima. Mitandao inapokua na kubadilika kuwa jumuiya zinazofanya kazi, zinazofanya kazi, tunagundua jinsi Maisha yanabadilika kweli, ambayo ni kupitia kuibuka. Zikitenganishwa, juhudi za wenyeji huungana kama mitandao , kisha huimarishwa kadiri jumuiya za mazoezi , ghafla na kwa kushangaza mfumo mpya unaibuka kwa kiwango kikubwa zaidi. Mfumo huu wa ushawishi una sifa na uwezo ambao haukujulikana kwa watu binafsi. Si kwamba yalifichwa; hazipo hadi mfumo utokee. Wao ni mali ya mfumo, si mtu binafsi, lakini mara moja huko, watu binafsi wanayo. Na mfumo unaojitokeza daima huwa na nguvu na ushawishi mkubwa kuliko inavyowezekana kupitia mabadiliko yaliyopangwa na ya kuongezeka. Dharura ni jinsi Maisha huleta mabadiliko makubwa na kuchukua mambo kwa kiwango.
Tangu kuanzishwa kwake mwaka wa 1992, Taasisi ya Berkana imekuwa ikifanya majaribio ya mzunguko wa maisha ya kuibuka: jinsi mifumo hai inavyoanza kama mitandao, kuhama hadi kwa jumuiya za kimatendo zilizokusudiwa, na kubadilika kuwa mifumo yenye nguvu inayoweza kuwa na ushawishi wa kimataifa. Kupitia kazi yetu na jumuiya katika mataifa mengi tofauti, tunajifunza kile kinachowezekana tunapounganisha watu katika tofauti na umbali. Kwa kutumia masomo ya mifumo ya maisha na kufanya kazi kimakusudi na kuibuka na mzunguko wa maisha yake, tunaonyesha jinsi uvumbuzi wa kijamii wa ndani unaweza kuchukuliwa kwa kiwango na kutoa masuluhisho kwa masuala mengi ya ulimwengu yasiyoweza kutatulika—kama vile afya ya jamii, uendelevu wa ikolojia na kujitegemea kiuchumi.
Kwa nini tunahitaji kuelewa mitandao
Watafiti na wanaharakati wa kijamii wanaanza kugundua nguvu ya mitandao na mitandao. Na kuna utambuzi unaokua kwamba mitandao ndio aina mpya ya upangaji. Ushahidi wa mitandao iliyojipanga upo kila mahali: wanaharakati wa kijamii, vikundi vya kigaidi, magenge ya madawa ya kulevya, magenge ya mitaani, vikundi vya maslahi vinavyotegemea wavuti. Ingawa sasa tunaona haya kila mahali, si kwa sababu ni aina mpya ya upangaji. Ni kwa sababu tumeondoa vipofu vyetu vya zamani vya dhana ambavyo vinatafuta madaraja na mifumo ya udhibiti kwa imani kwamba shirika hufanyika tu kupitia utashi wa binadamu na kuingilia kati.
Mitandao ndiyo aina pekee ya shirika inayotumiwa na mifumo hai kwenye sayari hii. Mitandao hii hutokana na kujipanga, ambapo watu binafsi au spishi hutambua kutegemeana kwao na kupanga kwa njia zinazounga mkono utofauti na uwezekano wa wote. Mitandao huunda hali ya kuibuka, ambayo ni jinsi Maisha yanavyobadilika. Kwa sababu mitandao ni hatua ya kwanza kuibuka, ni muhimu tuelewe mienendo yao na jinsi inavyoendelea kuwa jumuiya na kisha mifumo.
Bado kazi nyingi za sasa kwenye mitandao zinaonyesha upendeleo wa zamani wa dhana. Katika uchambuzi wa mtandao wa kijamii, uwakilishi wa kimwili wa mtandao huundwa na mahusiano ya ramani. Hii ni muhimu kwa kuwashawishi watu kuwa mitandao ipo, na mara nyingi watu huvutiwa kuona mtandao ukifanywa kuonekana. Wachambuzi wengine wa mtandao hutaja majukumu yanayochezwa na wanachama wa mtandao au hufanya tofauti kati ya sehemu tofauti za mtandao, kama vile msingi na pembezoni. Huenda isiwe dhamira ya watafiti hawa, lakini kazi yao mara nyingi hutumiwa na viongozi kutafuta njia za kuendesha mtandao, kuutumia kwa njia ya jadi na kudhibiti.
* Kinachokosekana katika uchanganuzi huu ni uchunguzi wa mienendo ya mitandao:
* Kwa nini mitandao huunda? Ni hali gani zinazounga mkono uumbaji wao?
* Ni nini hufanya mtandao kuwa hai na kukua? Ni nini huwafanya washiriki waendelee kushikamana?
*Uongozi wa aina gani unahitajika? Kwanini watu wanakuwa viongozi?
* Ni aina gani ya uongozi unaoingilia au kuharibu mtandao?
* Nini kinatokea baada ya mtandao wenye afya kuunda? Nini kinafuata?
Ikiwa tunaelewa mienendo hii na mzunguko wa maisha wa kuibuka, tunaweza kufanya nini kama viongozi, wanaharakati na wajasiriamali wa kijamii ili kukuza kuibuka kwa makusudi?
Emergence ni nini?
Dhamira inakiuka mawazo yetu mengi ya Kimagharibi kuhusu jinsi mabadiliko yanavyotokea hivi kwamba mara nyingi huchukua muda mrefu kuyaelewa. Kwa asili, mabadiliko hayatokei kamwe kama matokeo ya juu-chini, mipango mkakati iliyobuniwa awali, au kutoka kwa mamlaka ya mtu binafsi au bosi yeyote. Mabadiliko huanza kama vitendo vya ndani vinapochipuka kwa wakati mmoja katika maeneo mengi tofauti. Ikiwa mabadiliko haya yatasalia kukatika, hakuna kitakachofanyika zaidi ya kila lugha. Hata hivyo, zinapounganishwa, vitendo vya ndani vinaweza kuibuka kama mfumo wenye nguvu na ushawishi katika ngazi ya kimataifa au ya kina zaidi. (Dunia hapa ina maana ya kiwango kikubwa zaidi, si lazima sayari nzima.)
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Intrinsically connected to any concept that is emerging is looking to what stands in the way and blocks the new from arising. This is why ignorance and arrogance are both self and collectively-defeating; they prevent the respect and freedom that is necessary for true innovation and evolutionary knowledge to emerge. Attempting to control, intending results, and consciously or unconsciously forcing inherently blocks the movement of the larger "spirit", which is bringing healing, and new growth. Clinging and insisting upon former paradigms that are no longer working, meaningful, appropriate, and are even dangerous to persist in doing is counter-productive to advancement. It requires courage to turn and face what was good in the past, but is now detrimental in the present and for the future, and remain open and generous to the newly emerging. Fear of the unknown and close-mindedness keep ignorance and arrogance brokering for leverage to sway all things to the former, to the known, to controlling, to continuing to force antiquated ways of thinking and doing. And yet, we cannot manipulate our way into revelation. We can only step aside, and with open generosity step aside, and allow "the spirit", which moves all things and all of life to pass through us, both as individuals and as a collective humanity. Ground-breaking art and revolutionary innovation do not arise from predetermination, but seek revelation from higher forms of knowing. Only surrender to freedom can free us, or reveal new and emerging ways of being and knowing. We cannot truly "fight" our way to attaining freedom, anymore than we can "fight" our way to achieving love or respect. Love and respect require that they be freely bestowed and freely received.
If we truly seek a new and emerging better world, we should first look to getting out of the way, and permitting it to manifest. All true seemingly-miraclous knowledge and events, magical understanding and wonder are never forced or capped, which is exactly why they are so capable of bringing delight and joy. There is more to life than intention and force, which limit us to only knowing and also existing in the past. The new is always waiting for us; it never arises from our force or deliberate suppression. It is free, or we cause it to wither and vanish. The new would joyfully emerge if we weren't always holding it back, disallowing it from arising, or dictating to it, telling it who to be and how to be, manipulating it from the start to suit us and our limited views or selfish desires. So often, we stand in the way from all our actual and true wealth of healing that knowledge and wisdom have to graciously offer. If we learn nothing else in life, we would benefit the most from learning respect, for oneself, for all other human beings, for all animals, birds, fish, insects, plants, trees, forests, natural seeds, soil, water, rivers, oceans, air, all of creation, and natural forces and energies.
We continue to reject the essential deep and abiding respect for nature, the wisdom of natural processes and natural abundant energies, which are contained within and by our planet earth home, and are freely bestowed by our good universe to all inhabitants of earth. Nature, and knowledge contained in nature and natural processes and energies, is our most trustworthy and life-sustaining teacher that we have available to us, and right under our noses. Free energy devices do not create or store energy; they tap into existing, unlimited, zero-emmission, natural supplies provided by the universe. In rejecting and suppressing the breakthrough, ambient, free energy technological gifts of nature and natural processes, we gamble that our archaic, explosive, and lethal energy manipulations of nature and the (inflated and disappearing-unto-dust) money and power gleaned from them can and will increase our status over others, and also somehow save us and a future for the next generation and beyond. Yet, the reality is that the marketplace is no longer a viable answer to either our energy needs, environmental concerns, or even in providing true and lasting wealth. Nature is aligned with respect, health, freedom, abundance, inclusion, and continuing life. Sole reliance on trade within global monetary systems, which are ever-inflated even unto nothingness, are intrinsically anti-cooperative, and dependent upon competition that involve force, scarcity, fear, limitations, manipulations, profiteering, engineering of nature and natural processes, suffering, violence, and destruction of our natural (and cultural) world.
This competing mentality that continues to demand financial competition over, and monetary compensation from, the natural world, even though only global suffering and death is now the only possible outcome, also spiritually robs both individuals and collective human civilization of common decency, benevolence, and even sanity. We bankrupt more than just our grossly-inflated monetary currencies. Even more tragically, we bankrupt our true and lasting wealth in the natural abundance of our planet earth, and the spiritual soul of our own humanness. It is not just the physical lives of human beings, creatures, plants, crops, seeds, trees, forests, soils, rivers, oceans, and all waters that we are irrevocably losing, we are throwing away and trampling the heart and soul of our own humanity, and at grave risk of renouncing all respect for others, for love and for life. Ultimately, we will lose self-respect and dignity, and be consumed with collective and self loathing, or even worse, lose more and more conscience, open ourselves to the callous and violent harding of the heart and numbness of soul that accompanies the predatory devaluing of love and life, which can no longer feel empathy, connection, unity, or oneness with others, or even with or for oneself. These spiritual loses are preceding, and already foretell that we quickly losing the last bastion against the darkness of mounting despair that will trap all the living, both rich and poor, the powerful and the powerless in ever-increasing and spiraling-downward decadence, violence, physical and spiritual deterioration, degradation, destruction, suffering, mayhem, and death.
We cannot add to the bounty of nature; we can only limit and destroy the bountiful and abundant generosity of the universe when we are unconscious, or disregard deliberately the destructive travesties that we are doing on a global scale to our true and lasting wealth - life and love, health and vitality, our shared humanity, all of creation on our planet home, and all future generations. The natural world is capable of supplying all of our needs, while sustaining and enhancing our lives, if we allow the new, free and freeing, and truly saving power of natural, cosmic energy technologies to emerge.
Nature scatters their secrets and knowledge throughout all diverse human classifications, within all creatures and in every possible direction, even unto the cosmos. There is more to learn from studying nature right here on planet earth than many lifetimes could ever reveal. And yet, we choose everything that destroys nature and costs us, and now tragically and perhaps even irreversibly robs and costs us, our most precious and priceless gifts - love and life itself on on one shared planet earth home. All newly emerging knowledge, life and love are intrinsically dependent upon respect and generosity of spirit. We clearly don't have all the answers, but someone, some Universal One, both out there and within, might if we finally, and for the first time in human history, stepped aside and with due respect and awe, let them emerge and be revealed.
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