Alexander Hamilton - "America's First Systems Thinker"

In order to understand what I propose it is first best to define "Systems Thinking."

I believe Dr. Russel Ackoff provided the best definitions and explanations for "Systems Thinking."

·         System - a system is a whole which is defined by its function in a larger system of which it's a part

•   Every system is contained in a larger system
•    Its role or function in that system is what defines it
•    For a system to perform its function it has essential parts
•                        Essential parts are necessary for the system to perform its function but not sufficient
•                        Implies that an essential property of a system is that it can not be divided into independent parts.
•                       Its properties derive out of the interaction of its parts and not the actions of its parts taken separately.
•      If you apply analysis to a system you take it apart and it loses all its essential properties, and so do its parts.
•      A system is never the sum of its parts. It is the product of the interactions of its parts.

http://environment-ecology.com/general-systems-theory/380-systems-thinking-with-dr-russell-ackoff.html

In my opinion Alexander Hamilton saw the United States as a whole (Central Government, National Currency, National Bank, Three Branches of Govt.) and not the individual parts (States, State Currency, Excessive States Rights (AH believed they should have many rights). If it were left up to many of our Founding Father's wishes we would have separate countries and the United States would be more like Europe. 

His ideas on combing the national debt united the country for the benefit of the whole and not the individual few (States). 

It is often said that changes that results in lasting improvement come from the outside. People too close to a situation can not let go of their biases (Like many of the founding fathers from Virginia and Massachusetts). 

Hamilton was not born in the United States and thus owned no allegiance to any particular state. (island of Nevis). He saw the country as a whole and united it would always be superior to the sum of it's parts.

Today our government is about the parts and individual biases of the democratic and republican parties. What a shame and embarrassment you people are to the common people.


INDIVISIBLE! - No greater word in our pledge of allegiance.