A response to Otto Scharmer’s 'small islands of coherence' LinkedIn blog post

Jose A Vanderhorst S
2 min readJan 1, 2024

Dear Otto Scharmer and readers.

Please consider the shared image of a tweet of 2017 on the need a new lexicon to get close to the emergent future. Such a lexicon emerged with hashtags and were followed by many #Hashtags_Network of #AGlobalSystem whole.

I read “2023 In Eight Points: Meditating On Our Planetary Moment” and browsed “Philanthropy 4.0: What Form of Giving Enables Transformative Change?” Then I read all 60 comments (not the external articles linked) for the first time, written so far under this post. A few of the persons that commented are mentioned below.

Claiming to be the #HomoPragmaticist pioneer, I am able to provide an “island of coherence.” Such coherence responds to Klaus Heine’s doubt and fits 𝙍𝙤𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝘿𝙞𝙛𝙛𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙣𝙯’s quote “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has” of Margaret Mead.

Hal Hamilton articulated very well what I claim: “In my experience these “islands of coherence” are essential… but these islands have limited significance without institutional change.”

Please consider my most recent post, “High tech platform domain gatekeepers must select Organized Complexity for inclusion ( https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jos%C3%A9-antonio-vanderhorst-silverio-a4258818_brightglobalization-activity-7146532252171071488-JAw9?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop ).” To get closer to the emergent future, platform regulation will need to be under the incentives of the #BrightGlobalization” institutional innovation of #TheWealthOfGlobalization.

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Jose A Vanderhorst S

Hashtags on what I stand for: 1 “There is nothing so powerful as #TheWealthOfGlobalization whose time has come;” 2 #BrightGlobalization; 3 #SystemicCivilization