Harmony Builders

Following the September 11 tragedy, I have 
received scores and scores of e-messages
that either commented on government action 
planned (or taken), suggested what should 
be done to respond to the terrorists, or 
expressed sorrow and grief.  There was
little in those e-messages that raised the
questions:  What should I do? 
What could/should we do individually and 
collectively; in our families, in our 
communities, and in the systems in which
we live and work? 

The quality which evolution values the 
most, is harmony. Harmony creates the 
qualities of oneness of wholeness within
the community of all life.
Harmony creates and maintains the 
qualities of balance, internal consistency, 
synergy, and symmetry within an evolutionary
systems of an evolutionary generation of
Homo Sapiens. And harmony is the force
that creates unity within the rich diversity
of the community of all life. 

Loss of harmony at an evolutionary stage
leads to the loss of all those evolutionary 
qualities.  It leads to the breakdown and
eventual disintegration of the evolutionary 
system.  The tragic event of September11 
is horrible evidence of the total breakdown 
of harmony in the global system of humanity.

So, our larger task is the creation of 
harmony among all the rich diversity of 
nations, cultures, races, and faiths. I wish
our government would embrace this 
larger task as the real solution.

If the government does not -- if the
governments around the word do not
-- undertake this task, we can. We can
and we must. We can and we must
create harmony from the ground-up. 
Creating harmony from the ground-up means
creating harmony within our families, in our 
neighborhoods, in our communities, and
in the systems in which we live and work. 
A society of harmony can be created by 
the thousands and thousands of "Agoras," 
harmony builder communities, and 
organizations of all kinds. From the 
work of these future - creating systems
global harmony can be build from the
ground up.    

Following the many memorial services 
and a period of morning, we are told to
go to back to our daily tasks and establish
normalcy.  Keep the status quo.   Our 
response to this call is a resounding no.  
Our response to this tragedy can be 
nothing less that accepting the challenge 
of becoming harmony creators, future 
builders, and designers of evolutionary 
future. 

Is there a will, a commitment, and 
passion in us to become harmony 
builders and future creators?         

Dr. Bela H. Banathy 
Executive Faculty 
Saybrook Graduate School
San Francisco, Ca. 
Email: BHBanathy@aol.com 

Read Dr. Banathy's books:

Systems Design of Education : 
A Journey to Create the Future


Guided Evolution of Society :
A Systems View 
(Contemporary Systems Thinking)


Designing Social Systems in a Changing World 
(Contemporary Systems Thinking) 



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