Alternative view of segmented documents via Kairos
13 December 2018 | Draft
Coordination of Wing Deployment and Folding in Politics
Bird flight and landing as complementary metaphors of global strategic coherence
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Introduction
Flying in the winds of change?
Calm required for balloon flight?
Birds as national symbols of identity -- and of peace
Bird flight and wing clipping: constraining dialogue
Dialogue misunderstood as wingless flight?
Extremism and flight capacity?
Wing-folding and sustainable "flight capacity" of social systems
Coherent visualization of social diversity
Enfolding complexity comprehensibly
Star symbols as schematic birds?
Flying capacity implied by "wings" of a 5-pointed star?
Flying capacity implied by "wings" of a 6-pointed star?
Star rotation: achieving and sustaining controlled flight?
Symbolism of the Flag of Europe -- imagined in the light of bird flocking
Sustainable revolution gyroscope -- recycling "bread and circuses"?
Globalization otherwise understood through spherical configuration of stars?
Interrelating "star-birds" of different "wing-configuration"?
References
Produced on the occasion of the unexpected riots of the Gilets Jaunes ("Yellow Vests") throughout France,
with images of Paris in flames, symbolically paralleled by a UN Climate Change Summit to implement the Paris Agreement
Introduction
The world, and especially France, has been witness to the spontaneous emergence of a popular movement in France -- the Gilets Jaunes
("Yellow Vests") -- in reaction to a pattern of multiple financial constraints on the living conditions and purchasing power of the
population, especially the more impoverished. Their name derives from the yellow security vests which all motorists in France are
obliged to carry in their vehicles. A planned increase in fuel taxation, announced by President Emmanuel Macron, was the primary trigger
for the uprising -- especially for those in rural areas without access to public transport.
The emergence and evolution of that movement, and the reaction of the central authorities, is extensively discussed in the document of
which this is effectively an annex (Systemic Function of Highly Unrepresentative Minorities: recognizing the role of the "Dark Riders"
of social change, 2018). That document noted the change of policy of the government as a consequence of the protests, and the
proposal for a period of truce in which a national dialogue would be enabled. The question raised there was the possible nature of such a
"dialogue", given the evident lack of skills in that respect in many arenas, despite the many claims for fruitful modes of facilitation and
moderation.
As framed there, the question raised was whether there was any other way of imagining dialogue otherwise, especially since in France
the objective was to achieve a measure of national coherence even though any attempt at central "coordination" would itself be
challenged.
The measures announced by the French Government which triggered the uprising were presented as enabling a vital ecological transition
-- as envisaged by the UN Paris Agreement and the current discussions at COP24. Previous uprisings in France have been against the
markets and globalization. The Yellow Vest rebellion can be understood as being against a change in way of life, as argued by Andrés
Ortega ("Yellow Vests": The First Rebellion Against the Ecological Transition, The Globalist, 4 December 2018). The reaction evoked