Fundamental opposite truths: ‘Small is beautiful’ & ‘A global system’

Jose A Vanderhorst S
2 min readFeb 7, 2022

Small is a beautiful fundamental truth, whose opposite fundamental truth is a global system. The source of this story comes from the following two posts:

Such an opposite fundamental truth, that results from increasing the architecting scope from the national to the global circumstance, is needed to be able to address the #WickedProblems identified back in 1973 by Horst Rittel and Melvin Webber, in their paper “Dilemmas in a General Theory of Planning.

The abstract of the paper starts with: “The search for scientific bases for confronting problems of social policy is bound to fail, because of the nature of these problems.” Since then, such dillemas have ended by the emergence of the scientific system architecting that extend #CSPeirce #Pragmaticism, for example, in the post “A reply to the Inter-American Development Bank ( https://www.linkedin.com/posts/activity-6895521645558067200-XPgU )”

Next the key quote by Joan Fontrodona on that post is now taken from his own translation in the book “Pragmatism and Management Inquiry: Insights from the Thought of Charles S. Peirce,” that says: “At the beginning of this book, we formulated the hypothesis that Peirce’s thought could provide a starting point for devising a new paradigm to account for human action in organizations… However, there still remains… the verification of the hypothesis. This is not something that can be done on a theoretical level, as in this book, but must be carried out in reality…”

Such verificación corresponds, for example, to the post “Great electric service expanding opportunities driven by the #CleanDozen to go #WhereTheMagicHappens” a paradigm shift that provides the growth needed for the trust opportunity in #Latam and the #Caribbean.

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Jose A Vanderhorst S

Hashtags on what I stand for: 1 “There is nothing so powerful as #TheWealthOfGlobalization whose time has come;” 2 #BrightGlobalization; 3 #SystemicCivilization