Warp and Weft of Future Governance

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Introduction

The challenge of interrelating seemingly incompatible threads of discourse in more fruitful ways was explored in an earlier paper (Interweaving Thematic Threads and Learning Pathways, 2010). As noted there, the thread metaphor had previously been developed by Jennifer Gidley (A Macrohistorical Planetary Tapestry: the fascinating integral narratives of Steiner, Gebser and Wilber, 2007) as part of her exploration of The Evolution of Consciousness as a Planetary Imperative (2007) . The question is how any such weaving relates to the challenges of global governance, notably as tentatively explored previously (Planetary Challenge of 12-fold Strategic Marriage, 2003; Warp and Weft: Governance through Alternation: world governance as a Gandhian challenge for the individual, 2002).

The purpose here is merely to point to the possibility of combining the threefold weaving explored by Gidley with the quite different weaving explored by Douglas Hofstadter (Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid, 1979). The implication is that this ninefold weaving responds to dimensions of the challenge of governance neglected by the two threefold weavings considered individually.

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