Reply To: Values for transitioning to an eco-social world

[Richard]

Buckminster Fuller talked about this kind of kind of individual-collective complementarity and a clear understanding that they go together. Just like concepts of concave-convex, you can’t have one without the other. Fuller was a little wordy in thinking about self-Other. It goes like this. In order to have Self there must be Awareness. To have awareness there must be Other. In reverse thinking, No Other, No Awareness, No Self. Lynn Margulis found individualism to be a separated illusion. Individual-collective are always together, like concave-convex. You can’t separate 1 from the other which is what pre-20th century Western science tried to do with mind-body separation, observer-object separation (so-called objectivity). Giving in and following this kind observer objectivity has been disastrous in Western style social work and the spreading effect it has had on social work teaching and practice over the last 125 years