Democracy is Failing, Health of Nations is Failing, and Pandemic is Raging: Systems Science Exposés

Ivo P. Janecka^1,

¹Foundation for Systems Research and Education, New York, NY, US

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Ivo P. Janecka. Democracy is Failing, Health of Nations is Failing, and Pandemic is Raging: Systems Science Exposés. American Journal of Educational Research. 2021; 9(5):300-312. doi: 10.12691/education-9-5-8

Abstract

All societies have goals of achieving health, happiness, and longevity, but without success. Visible to all are organizational structures that are under stress, international collaboration that is without harmony, and priorities that are missing their targets. A search for etiology and a possible common denominator of such outcomes has been conducted in this study using systems science. Results of this research indicate that, in many societies, there exist numerous deviations from systems science principles, regarding health, components relationships, decisions – consequences learning loops, and many others; all such nonconformities lead to fragmentation of collective intelligence, predominantly affecting rationality and responsibility to self and to all-related larger systems.

Keywords:
democracy health pandemic systems science perception cognition society

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