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I think that would be too hard for me to write everything into one
single message. This is sort of introduction for the next two
messages.
I work in a team that, based on history, believes in three principles.
I share that belief, of course. Those three principles are:
1) The global society tend to harmony among all national economies and
societies.
2) National economies and societies tend to domestic harmony.
3) Harmony does not equates to equality but to maximum efficiency (*).
According to that "belief", each principle defines one particular
trend that human societies has shown since first settlements until
nowadays. All of those trends combined shape what we call the social
and economic maturity process. In other words, the global society and
each individual society grow and evolve as individual human beings do,
through quantic leaps or steps.
That model is a path, we walk that path back and forth, through trial
and error. Therefore what I will write in this group about Malaysia
and Australia is a trend that unfortunately will suffer some steps
back and some steps aside. "One step back, two steps ahead".
We can add a fourth principle, that only some societies tend to.
4) The most mature societies that we know nowdays sacifice efficiency
in order to gain sustainability. Sustainability is not just climate
change, also it is stability in terms of social, economic, cultural
values. It does not avoid change, it tries to avoid fatal errors.
Also, inside any particular society, there are different human groups
(or sub-societies) that are into different phases of the maturity
process. And finally, each individual human being is also into a
particular phase of the maturity process that relates mostly to the
maturity level of the group where that individual was educated during
his or her childhood. I (but probably not necesarily the whole team
that I work for) believe that individuals tend to feel better living
in societies and groups (sub-societies) that share same maturity
level.
Australia and Malaysia, and every other country, are walking that
path. Through right and wrong, back and forth, trial and error. If you
agree, what I will try to post in the most accurate way in my next
message is the role that those countries (their economy, their
society, their culture, etc.) will probably be or where those
countries tend to become. And finally, in my third message, a brief
description of those societies and overall opportunities into them.
Peace and best wishes.
Xi
(*) Efficiency is not just economic efficiency. Human beings and human
societies are complex enough to aim goals that go beyond mere economic
wishes. Efficiency means to achieve those complex and general wishes
with the minimum effort, in terms of individual effort and social
efforts.