Assessment of Contextual Status
Status recognition is engrained in our DNA. It’s a skill that allows us to organise society efficiently and enhance individual and collective outcomes. There have been many contexts in which status was defined, from physical strength to spiritual wisdom.
Since the enlightenment in the West, we are considered equal as humans but status are contextually distributed: we evaluate status of experts in the context of their field. In a justice court, the highest status is the judge, in a school class, the teacher, in a company the CEO, in a fitness center, the instructor.
A good system is a system that does a good job at assessing the relevance of a contextual status. If i give high status in surgery to my baker, a high status in police to religious people and a high status in finance to my 2 year old niece, things might not play well in such societal model.
Who’s in charge of Contextual Status Assessment today?
So what have we learned about contextual status assessment so far?
The consequence of a bad CSA:
While refusing to recognise status would be suicidal, having the wrong CSA systems in place can be destructive, especially in a world of abundance, exponential technological progress and sophistication.
A lot of signs are showing we have entered in a CSA crisis:
In fact, most of or current discourses, divisions and polarities are related to a problem that is much deeper than the usual political or religious tribalism. We have never been so connected and divided at the same time.
The solution is no longer to decide to whom we should allocate high contextual status, but to rebuild completely our contextual status assessment tools and methodologies.
Instead of relying on the legacy CSA paradigm, we have to start over and create a competitive environment between CSA by combining the virtues of specialism, information technologies and decentralisation.
If we desacralise our institutions and have the humility accept we were fooled by the fabricated authority of the so called “official” media, academia, political parties and culture, only then will we be ready for the Enlightenment 2.0 and deserve the abundant and exciting next stages of our civilisation.
