IN CONCLUSION
Peter Drucker famously walked away from a John Maynard Keynes lecture having “suddenly realized that Keynes and all the brilliant economics students in the room were interested in the behavior of commodities while I was interested in the behavior of people.” Unfortunately, the behavior of commodities is still linked in the property-based world of corporate, artificial or Epistemological intelligence.
Elsewhere, in preparatory research and writings, in conversations with Joseph Maciariello, and review of salient material like the essays on Stahl and Kierkegaard, I have explored the individual topology of Peter Drucker. As a result I have developed tremendous compassion for the man. The conundrum Drucker faced was the same conundrum faced by all humanity of his era. Never, in the long arc of his career, did Peter Drucker stop seeking an answer for how to link values and meaning to the operations of people in collectives.
He failed to conclusively attain his mission, not for lack of resolution, but for lack of another twenty-five years. It is my conjecture that had Drucker had the opportunity to view the perceptual, dimensional evolution now materializing into form, that he would have seen the opportunity to modify or correct his earlier assumptions and suppositions and reached very different prescriptions for the betterment of human organization.
I believe that he might have noted President George H.W. Bush’s speech about the “New World Order,” and noted Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s recent G20 speech on the “New World Order,” and used a new iteration of mathematics, the dimensional, to evaluate the connection in terms of value and means, as well as values and meaning. Drucker’s expressed growing concerns about a broad range of issues: climate change and multinational corporations, the growing income disparity between haves and have-nots, and the valuation of CEOs, to name a few. Perhaps, Drucker would have added things up and connected Nazi organizational behavior to globalist behavior, and managed to generate a forecast of the inevitable.
He might have been able to predict the end of organizational man, and the onset of either dimensional man, or – God help us – globalist, superclass, Davos or Salzburg man.
