Systems application

Jeanette has timely focused on the relationship between system balance and anomaly. In living systems it is the immune system that maintains homeostasis. Since the human race is a living system then it also has something that is analogous to an immune system and functions within the human race the same way that the immune system functions in any organism. (Later we will determine whether the human race is an organism or an organization.)

Before an organism's immune system can fight off an attack it must first determine that the organism is under attack from an "unlike" that threatens the existence of the system. Once that determination is made the unlike is attacked by the immune system and destroyed. As we have seen with autoimmune diseases and cancer, problems arise when the immune system incorrectly parts of the organisms as being "unlike."

Everyone seems to agree that humanity is an endangered species but the attack has not come from an outside source. This is interesting because we believe that without being prompted by any outside source. Somehow we have come to the conclusion that we should not be attacking ourselves as we have through war and violent crime. Apparently, the immune system of the species is at work.