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The level at which cultural values, customs and laws have their effect.

The level above the organisation

Most analyses stay at the level of one organisation or one project. A macro system is the level where cultural values, customs and laws take effect; that is, the setting of all smaller systems. I think an analyst who does not see this level sometimes gives a technical solution to a problem whose root is cultural or civilisational.

For now this section is filled with pieces that look from this angle:

• A critique of modernity and a civilisational view of systems: Spengler and The Decline of the West, and the question of whether people exist for civilisation or civilisation for people.
• Without keeping your ideals, selling your location ends in shame: when income decides the ideals; from transit corridors to culture.
• From order to the appearance of order: worn-out institutions and values, and “theatrical order”.
• Grassroots institutions and the decline of the sense of social responsibility: when helping others moves from an individual duty to an institutional one.

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Related: Crisis and critical systems and Lipstick on a Pig.