Gandhi, Compound Arithmetic and Mapping System Transformation

My uncle died in his eighties. He was a Barrister and then a Queens Councilor who had qualified from the Bar of London. As had his father and Gandhi. Before we move on from my uncle, his last great act was to help unseat a Lord Chancellor who couldn’t do compound arithmetic. It’s a very grave failing when a law-maker cannot do compound arithmetic because most laws compound financial consequences, often ones that chain a next generation in which even a smart lawyer – let alone one who can’t do exponential maths – has difficulty imagining.

I am just a simple mathematician. But I am quite capable of thanking Einstein for his refereeing of what truly mattered about Gandhi

 It was also Einstein who questioned whether the human race would sustain itself through the higher order integration of system needed once technology made us all more connected than geographically separated.

So we reach the point where there is no point trying to sugar coat the pill that personal “be the change” agents and consciousness advocates in the West need to swallow with all due urgency. They are utterly missing the point of Gandhi’s unique contributions to system transformation when they preach to individuals that we can sustain the planet if you alone will be the change and self-organise. My grandfather and Gandhi had 25 years of face to face transformation in India through the early 20s to mid 40s.  Gandhi began this journey with an understanding that my granddad did not have. This was somewhat inconvenient as my granddad was the British Raj judge for the Mumbai region, and first met Gandhi as the accused.

The system integration truth which Gandhi had worked out and rehearsed how to interact for 15 years involved a system triangle. When an empire’s command and control system is destroying the productivity and communities of your peoples, you will need to change 3 dynamics all at the same time : those of Professions, those of Media, that of Education (PME). For the first half of his life, Gandhi had vainly tried to use his professinal knowledge of the law to overthrow the system from within the system. His Eureka moment – Satyagraha 1907 – was discovery that system transformation could not be achieved by any such thing. It would need the triple revolution PME of the most human flows designed into society.

What Gandhi had to do was to connect the most brilliantly creative practices of education, professional objectivity (going back to question the rules) and media innovation. People who do not study Gandhi’s diaries from this triangular mapmaking perspective are gloriously missing the point, as well as the compound consequences that coordination of this three-in-one can have. What is the whole truth for future generations that your flows through everyone can cause to converge as uncertainty of principle in the very fabric of the largest institutions and most powerful decision makers? Has your uncertainty principle got so much human common sense grounding in it that over a 25 year period you would change a judge from being your chief jailer to the guy who writes up the legalese for your nation’s independence.

While Gandhi points the way – according to Einstein the only way – to sustainability of our species and wholeplanet, we have wasted the first 25 years of local going global that could have made today’s generation confident that the sustainability goal will be achievable. We must search out and share maps of how to interact collaboration squared if the last 5 years of globalisation’s exponential reversibility is to put us back on a pathway celebrating humanity for all our children. We will need one collaborator capable of networking all other truth collaborators.

When the Bottom Line Is Ending Poverty
BusinessWeek - Feb 29, 2008
While Gandhi's goal was the end of colonialism, Yunus' is just as grand: He means to reform capitalism to make it a tool for ending poverty

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