Executive Summary

• Overview of Light and Life
• Identification of a main problem or proposition (timeline), the lateness as well as the overall imbalance
• Analysis of a problem or proposition, with supporting facts, data, and figures (overview of each L&L category and its problem)
  Race and Biology
  Family
  Culture
  Language & Education
  Religion
  Ethics
  Governance
  Science & Technology
  Economy & Finance
  Personal Spiritual Growth
  
• Possible solutions and their justifications
• Clearly defined conclusions

Most forms of efficiency depend on narrow intelligence promoting narrow, short-term goals. This is not healthy for the world or our civilization’s longevity.

Normally, it is not considered effective - or realistic or even possible - to engage with "the whole" or even take it into account. From the perspective of narrow, short-term goals and the narrow intelligence that effectively pursues those goals, thinking of the whole is just too big, and definitely inconvenient.

Consensus process that seeks to take into account all concerns, needs and potential consequences involved in a decision naturally takes a lot of time. But it usually addresses factors that would come back to haunt the group later, if they weren't dealt with, so its defenders consider it wiser or more effective, from a long-term perspective.

EFFICIENCY

The idea of efficiency has a narrow boundary and wide boundary lens from which it can be viewed. 

Efficiency usually entails getting rid of “unnecessary things” - steps in a process, redundant functions, non-essential expenses and people, and so on. But the holistic concept of RESILIENCE often requires the presence of exactly those things to be there. If you have at hand several sources of or resources for a vital function (like energy or food or communication), then if one of them goes down, you can call on another one.

If efficient just-in-time production makes it unnecessary to keep a warehouse full of parts for your assembly line, it saves your company a lot of money and manpower. But if the supply line for a part breaks, your whole assembly line stops.

If a new technology makes a process much more convenient but opens up new avenues for hack attacks, then we can and should ask if that is really more efficient in the long run.

True efficiency entails “the optimum engagement of all aspects of a whole for the long term well being of the whole”.

So we’re talking about trying to rally and invest all relevant entities, relationships, resources, elements, capacities, qualities, and dynamics of wholeness (like synergy and vitality) - and even disturbances, waste, and excess - in the ongoing healthy co-creativity of the whole. It’s pretty obvious that doesn’t come near to describing how we usually try to get more with less. But it points us in the right direction.

We tend to think about narrowly defined problems that affect specific people or situations, using specific metrics to demonstrate certain direct effects. It’s easier to “make progress” on narrowly defined “virtuous goals” than it is to take into account the long term well being of the whole.

CRIMINALITY