My response to Bruce Lipton's perspective of change

This a response I posted on the LinkedIn group of Social Entrepreneur Empowerment Network about Bruce Lipton's interview:

What a great perspective of change! I concur with Bruce that the dominant forces driving collective psychology among our society nowadays are deeply rooted on a realistic sense of conflict and self-destruction that proliferate through our very own power discourses and institutions established in the past 200 years. I couldn't agree more with his statement of "institutions won't solve the problem they themselves create".

However, my personal research on this subject has led me to believe that change has to stop being the end but rather become the means itself. Deeply rooted and inherent norms and values are conceived by most of us as 'fixed', which creates a pattern of negation of change itself. Empirical evidence has led us to believe that shock therapy and trauma as a means to destabilize this profound pattern are the sole path to achieve dramatic and positive change. I wholeheartedly disagree with the latter, and I believe so does Bruce and the people that have joined this group.

Bruce's analogy when comparing the relationship of humans with society to that of cells with the body it is just a perfect description of the notion of inter-dependence. However, what keeps on bringing Social Darwinism and the likes as driving forces implicit in this behavioral patterns? In my view, I tend to think that teleological constructions underlying at different cultural levels are one of the big reasons why this behavioral pattern takes the shape of a vicious circle. Take the example of the Aristotelian cosmic model that ruled about 1800 years until Galileo dared to defy it. In brief, the model states that we (human beings, the Earth) are the center of the universe, and that everything else circles around us. Galileo proved this wrong and obviously today the dominant vision is the one science has been able to offer us, but I believe this Aristotelian notion of egocentrism still dominates the conception of old dominant tenets implicit in religion, philosophy, economic theory and other schools of thought and doctrines that shape the world we live in. In other words, we still tend to believe we are unique in the universe and this notion deeply distorts the reality of human existence and interdependence.

So the question is, how to break with this vicious circle? I agree with Petrea in this sense, we cannot focus solely on the agents and variables that are tangible to us at a surface level. In order to commit ourselves to deep structural change we must deconstruct those very same agents that are proliferating concepts such as the Darwinian sense of survival, self-destruction, realism, and so on. I believe that the prospect of change is indeed a reality, but as Ghandi wisely said, we must first begin by "being the change we want to see". I strongly agree with Bruce's insights on change, and in my view change itself starts by understanding the cognitive meaning of interdependence.