WEEK 5 - SYSTEMS ARCHETYPES.

DEEP ECONOMY CHAPTER 3.

As the years have passed by, people are taking up more space per person. Individualism has turned into hyper-individualism where by people want to be more and more secluded from their neighbours, friends and even family! In Africa, this has always been viewed as a concept from the "West". Africans have always been very communal people, living together in extended families and always looking out for their neighbours. However, in the latest years, Africans have slowly taken up these Western ways of living and communities are slowly crumpling down into individuals. People want houses further away from each other so they can have "privacy", a word almost foreign to Africa. In the end, it can be deduced that the rate of population growth is not directly proportional to amount of land taken up...we have less people taking up more space..


Many Christians are hypocrites.  They do not know their bible and the preachings have become more about success than love. 
Growth and expansion of Wal-Mart has shattered businesses and led to loss of jobs by communities even though it caters for the needs of the individual / customer. 


The Systems Archetypes in the chapter.
^Geographical Mobility=^Efficiency=^Productivity=physical health=people feeling less bonded to the people among whom they live=crime is more common   / Stability, Broken Marriages; The more individualistic a society is, the higher the chances of divorce.


^Education led to reduced voting despite the fact that education increases civic participation.
Local economies require fewer resources and course less ecological disruption. Eating food grown by your neighbour requires that you ." shed off some amount of your hyper-individualism and replace it with some neighbourliness"