The Pendulum of Societies

Ali Anani

Human values are diminishing. Human emotions are negatively affected by the feeling of guilt resulting from the loss of values and human bondages. Are societies growing chaotically? Values, emotions, society

The idea of this presentation crossed my mind as I drawing the time graph of events and how they develop over time

Motivation is based on its landscape over time

Small incentive

1

Small incentive

2

Small impact

Large impact

Some incentives grow with time whereas others decay

Incentive

Impact over Time

Balloon reward over

time

pendulum

Emotions move and change values. Is this movement chaotic?

Our hearts pulses are chaotic; are our emotions

similar?

Do feelings warm up like hot air and rise like a mushroom balloon?

Humans have sometimes mixed

feeling that do not move 100% in one direction. What happens when

warm feelings expand and cold feelings freeze?

Human values are not

invariant anymore

Loyalty

Decreasing loyalty to

family

Affects negatively

loyalty to work

The epidemic effect of emotions

Basket ofCore Values

Loyalty

Basket ofCore Values Loyalty

Less loyalty to

Work

Less loyal customers

Culture of care and connection

disappears

There is no such thing as ½ loyalty, honesty etc.,

Either honest or dishonestEither loyal or disloyal

It is the interaction of core values that lead to the emergence of healthy culturesIf core values change then culture changes

Gottman found that marriages are significantly more likely to succeed when the couple's interactions are near that 5 to 1 ratio of positive to negative. When the ratio approaches 1 to 1, marriages "cascade to divorce."

choices outside of one's values results in feelings of guilt

Are we going into this vicious cycle?

Less positive Values

Less emotions

Less attachme

nt

More disengag

ement

Chaotic societies

The Pendulum of Societies

A pendulum is loosely defined as something hanging from a fixed point which, when pulled back and released, is free to swing down by gravity and then out and up because of its inertia, or "tendency to stay in motion.“http://helix.gatech.edu/classes/me2202/2000s3/projects/swarner/definition.htm

Fixed Values

Pulling back forcesThe influencers

Fixed values are diminishing

The society pendulum is not fixed to

supposedly fixed values

All aspects of development are interconnected. The result: thoughts, feelings and actions are inexorably linked and must be balanced

Is the pendulum of societies going

chaotic?

Who has the balance?