Do not re-burn them.

Now is the time to repair and rebuild
lines of communication
between and inside the professional guilds.

Problems and crises in culture and society indicate structural, not moral, dysfunctions. Culture and society are networks (structures) of communication. Unhappiness (problem, crisis) occurs in culture or society when networks separate or corrode at their interstices, causing communication to degrade or cease altogether.

The small gaps between ends of lines of communication are the danger points for any system, such as a culture or society. (P2P communication has such a gap, an air-gap in fact, an interstice.) Where its lines of communication attach directly to main structures a systems’ danger points are not. Out at a distance from the main structures, out where multiple lines of communication converge and cross, a gap or gaps exist between the several lines of communication coming into proximity there.

Communication reaching such a convergence point can travel beyond it on a line not originally meant for its conveyance, or, it can cease travel beyond the convergence point altogether. The convergence point, the gap between line ends, functions as a switching station for information reaching it. Once there, information can proceed in one or more of several directions or not at all.

The interstices of lines of communication is where one wants information to travel as originally intended. Interstices are the danger points, the structural components where dysfunction can start and then cascade across a system, causing it to enter a condition of non-function, aka problem, crisis, unhappiness.

The nervous systems of living creatures, such as human beings, and of apparently non-living creatures, such as the universe, illustrate this phenomenon.

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Moral impurity is a symptom of crisis in culture or society, not a cause of it. Thus, the customary response of moral and intellectual fanaticism to crisis is stupid and malicious: woe unto us (you), we (you) are impure, we (you) must atone our (your) depravity by harsh treatment of ourselves (yourselves) and the world generally.

Cultural or social unhappiness is a crisis of structure, not a crisis of morals. The confessional is appropriate any time and should be private always. Cultural, social unrest is another matter altogether. This is a matter of structure, and specifically, mis-transport or non-transport of information across air-gaps, interstices where multiple lines of communication converge and cross.

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Studies For A
University Of The Professional Guilds

Protect The Professional Guilds
Re-Integrate The Professional Guilds
The Professional Guilds Have Seen Their Authority Usurped
The Professional Guilds Structure A University
Repair And Rebuild Bridges Between And Inside The Professional Guilds – 1
Repair And Rebuild Bridges Between And Inside The Professional Guilds – 2
The System Of Education: Homeschool And University Of The Professional Guilds

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A bridge can be built to span the gap between lips of the mouth to San Francisco Bay. The materials used to build the bridge are corruptible (immoral) but can be preserved useful nonetheless by constant maintenance.

We do not condemn even the idea of building the bridge just because the materials used to build it are corruptible (immoral). We simply resolve to maintain those materials at optimum condition because the value of the bridge outweighs the cost of the effort to build and maintain it.

Even the corrupt (immoral) has utility. Its corruptibility (immorality) can be prevented from overwhelming that utility. Corruptibility even has its own benefits: for example, giving employment to maintenance teams. Evil wonderfully concentrates the mind on God.

We throw the bridge into existence, despite its materials’ intrinsic weakness, because the bridge’s existence benefits very many in very many ways. Thus handle we corruption (immorality) intelligently.

Neo-Orthodox theologians (Niebuhr, Barth) never grasped this truth. They gave up on humanity because of our inescapable corruptibility (immorality). They used VUCA as an occasion to escape into fancy (Barth) or frivolity (Niebuhr). Many were and have been led astray by Neo-Orthodoxy and more still are every day. Neo-Orthodox theologians helped sever communications between and inside the five professional guilds. Even Tillich, who rightly deplored Neo-Orthodoxy, helped sever communications between the professional guilds.

Now is the time to repair and rebuild lines of communication between and inside the professional guilds.

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No one doubts we live in a time of cultural and societal crisis. Moral impurity, such as we see rampant, is not the cause of it. Corruption and even destruction of bridges at the gaps, the interstices of lines of communication are the cause of cultural and societal crisis.

Bridges must be repaired and rebuilt so that communications travel to and beyond interstices in routes and to destinations originally intended for them. The crisis is structural, not moral.

The most beneficial bridging — repair and rebuild — that can be done is between and inside the five professional guilds: theology, medicine, military arts, law, pedagogy. Establish reliable communications there and the remainder of culture and society self-heal.

Here are some bridge repairing and rebuilding projects:

1- Establish universities of the professions comprising one school for each of the five professions.

2- For each senior private and public officers, establish an advisory council — call it Commander’s Initiatives Group (CIG) — comprising at least one person from each of the five professions. Every leader, of every kind of organization, must have each of the professional guilds personally present inside their in-most advisory team.

3- Charge subordinate officers with fixing problems, eliminating crises in their organization by a definite, near-term suspense date, or, do not come back alive.

4- De-industrialize the system of education and professionalize it. Make the system’s product persons not employees, lovers not looters, respecters of authority (the professional guilds) not acolytes of its practitioners (the professors).

5- Take nothing for granted. Observe and evaluate every development. Test every assertion. Never let an assumption pass unexamined. Never assume someone is good, reliable, or good for you. Disregard nothing, no matter how trivial.

Repair and rebuild bridges.
Do not re-burn them.

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People should take great care that their senses do not go astray and commit offences. Thinking evil, speaking evil and seeing evil can invariably lead to total ruin. For example, in the Mahabharatha, Duryodhana had evil thoughts about the Pandavas, and ultimately he brought destruction upon his entire family. The Ramayana had the story of Kaikeyi, who listened to the evil counsel of Manthara and so lost not only her husband but also the regard and love of her son Bharatha. No one today likes to be known by these infamous characters Duryodhana, Keechaka, or Ravana. But though their names are not favoured, the bad qualities associated with them have not been given up by mankind. Strive to give up evil looks, vicious speech, and the greed to give ear to evil counsel and slanderous gossip.