The real reason why the tax rebate has been agreed upon as an economic stimulus package is that it is good for politicians in an election year. Such a stimulus package has never worked before and will never work in the future. As economic conditions worsen, we must cease playing in “the baby pool” and return again to swim in “the adult’s ocean.” Welcome to my world of Generativity, something that I have proven to be vital to productivity and growth.

Generativity is a processing system that enables us to “think outside the box,” to “see beyond the high beams.” It emphasizes expanding and then narrowing representations that evolve from linear and two-dimensional information to multidimensional, curvilinear and changeable information. Generativity transforms raw data into preferred modes of representing information which are most closely aligned with the nature of the phenomena themselves. In short, generativity creates images of “something more” where there was only data in the form of “nothing but.”

The platform for Generativity Positioning may be viewed in Figure 1. As may be noted, it characterizes all elements of human endeavor with the “generativity” adjective: economy, community, organization, education, governance. In other words, the driving force is generative human processing.

The Generativity Platform begins with The Generative Economy. This is an Entrepreneurial-driven Free Enterprise Economy. It generates the Prosperity upon which the other Pillars of Civilization are based: Participation in Governance, Peace in Cultural Relating.

In this context, the Generative Economy is supplemented by the Prosperous Community. Within that community, interdependently processing productive organizations are implemented by creative thinking school graduates. Finally, our generative, growth-oriented governance is empowered by enlightened leadership (think “We the People”) who engage in Nation-Building.

What makes this Generativity Platform different from all other political proposals is that it is derived from “actionable architecture” and “operational technologies.” It is not simply conceptual: for example, candidates talking about taking finances from one pot (the war) and putting them in another pot (the domestic agenda). In other words, this platform is based on projects that have been validated and are, therefore, predictable in their effects.

Figure 1. The Generativity Platform

Generativity is the only stimulus package that will work for America! Generativity or creativity in all areas of human endeavor alone can bring America back to its leadership role. Generativity must be the backbone of the presidential platform which defines all leadership priorities for America now at the beginning of the 21st century.

The first and most important plank in the presidential platform is positioning in the marketplace:

1. The American Enterprise Model must be dedicated to positioning as Generator in the Global Marketplace.

For America, this means abandonment of the pre-potency of the Multinational Corporations (currently endorsed by this administration) and the return to the basic model of The Entrepreneurial-Driven Free Enterprise Model (see Figure 2). As may be noted, this model adopts the “Generative-Innovator” positioning in the marketplace.

Figure 2. The American Free Enterprise Model

As may also be noted, this Free Enterprise Model requires “Participative Governance” as instrumental to the success of generativity and innovation. This means the enlightened citizenry is empowered and dedicated to “Generative Innovation” in the global marketplace.

Finally, Interdependent Cultural Relating is dedicated to enabling Participative Governance to accomplishing The Free Enterprise Functions. In other words, Cultural Relating empowers Participative Governance to direct and support Free Enterprise.

Perhaps most important are the developmental and cumulative processing systems undergirding the phases of marketplace positioning:

• Attenuator bolstered only by S–R Conditioned Responding Systems;
• Commoditizer undergirded by S–O–R Discriminative Learning Systems;
• Commercializer empowered by S–P–R Generative Thinking Systems;
• Innovator empowered by S–OP–R Generative Organizational Processing Systems;
• Generator empowered by S–MP–R Generative Marketplace Processing Systems.

In summary, Generative Economic Positioning yields the Prosperity that the other components and processes support. In turn, Participative Governance engages the Participation and Cultural Relating insures the Peace required for Generative Free Enterprise Economics.

The second most important plank in the presidential platform emphasizes a return to Community Development as the basic mechanism for implementing Generative Economic Positioning:

2. The Prosperous Community must be dedicated to the entrepreneurial generation of self-sustaining prosperity, participation, and peace.

Community Enterprise is the basic mechanism for solving community problems and achieving community goals through generating Prosperity. As may be noted, The Prosperous Community processes interdependently (see Figure 3).

Figure 3. The Prosperous Community

In turn, each component of The Prosperous Community contributes synergistically to the others’ growth:

• The homes and neighborhoods prepare the human potential.
• The schools and training empower the learners to discriminate information resources.
• The colleges and technologies empower the human and information capital as generative processors.
• The government and services generate the organizational processes in which the human and information capital are applied.
• The business and industry generate the marketplace processes that “capitalize” upon the organizational, human, and information capital.

In this context, each component of The Prosperous Community emphasizes processing systems which are developmental and cumulative:

• Homes — S–R Conditioned Responding;
• Schools — S–O–R Discriminative Learning;
• Colleges — S–P–R Generative Thinking;
• Governance — S–OP–R Generative Organizational Processing;
• Business — S–MP–R Generative Marketplace Processing.

In summary, The Prosperous Communities are dedicated to the Generative Economic Mission of The American Enterprise Model. Cultural Relating empowers the Peace that enables the Participative Government to accomplish the Free Enterprise Economic Mission.

The third most important plank in the presidential platform is organizing to process interdependently:

3. The Productive Organization must be dedicated to interdependent processing within, between, and among all units and people.

For America, this means abandonment of the totalitarian Multinational Model and the return to The Entrepreneurially-Driven Free Enterprise Model that generates and integrates New Capital Development or NCD Systems at all levels of The Productive Organization (see Figure 4).

Figure 4. The Productive Organization

As may be noted, The Productive Organization follows the principles of Possibilities Science:

• Lower-order NCD Systems are nested in higher-order systems.
• Lower-order NCD Systems are encoded by higher-order systems.
• Lower-order NCD Systems may be rotated to higher-order functions.

As may also be noted, all NCD Systems emphasize developmental and cumulative levels of processing:

• mCD or Mechanical Tooling Systems emphasize S–R Conditioned Responding Systems.
• ICD or Information Modeling Systems emphasize S–O–R Discriminative Learning Systems.
• HCD or Human Processing Systems emphasize S–P–R Generative Thinking Systems.
• OCD or Organizational Alignment Systems emphasize S–OP–R Generative Organizational Processing Systems.
• MCD or Marketplace Positioning Systems emphasize S–MP–R Generative Marketplace Processing Systems.

Again, all lower-order NCD Systems are nested in higher-order systems.

In summary, The Interdependent Organization is dedicated to the Prosperity Mission of The Possibilities Community; e.g., Cultural Relating empowering the Peace that enables Participative Governance to accomplish The Free Enterprise Functions.

The fourth most important plank in the presidential platform is producing generations of generative thinkers:

4. Generative Thinkers must be dedicated to thinking outside the box and creating new ideas.

For America, this means building upon the authoritarian Standards of Learning (SOL) systems and elevating up to the freeing Generative Thinking Systems (see Figure 5). It means building upon Probabilities Schools to implement Possibilities Schools which culminate in Freedom Schools.

Figure 5. Generative Thinking Model

As may be noted, The Generative Thinker is a product of both Human Capital Development or HCD and Information Capital Development or ICD. The HCD Functions emphasize developmental and cumulative processing systems:

• S–R Conditioned Responding
• S–O–R Discriminative Learning
• S–P–R Generative Thinking
• S–OP–R Generative Organizational Processing
• S–MP–R Generative Marketplace Processing

Clearly, the higher levels of Generative Thinking build upon the lower levels of conditioning and learning.

In turn, The ICD Functions emphasize developmental and cumulative levels of Information Representing:

• S1 – Sentences or Concepts
• S2 – Systems or Operations
• S3 – Schematics or Dimensionality
• S4 – Social Schematics or Vectorial Images
• S5 – Spatial or Phenomenal and Changeable Images

Once again, the higher order representations of information build upon the lower levels of sentences or conceptual information.

It is only in interrelating () the differentiated levels of HCD and ICD that we generate new and more productive ideas. In other words, it is when HCD and ICD relate interdependently and synergistically that they think generatively.

The institutions that convert the raw materials of human and information resources into HCD and ICD may be identified as follows:

• Probabilities Schools emphasizing S–R Conditioned Responding;
• Possibilities Schools emphasizing S–O–R Discriminative Learning;
• Freedom Schools emphasizing S–P–R Generative Thinking.

Clearly, the overwhelming numbers of our schools are Probabilities Schools. A rare few operate as Possibilities Schools. So far, none exist as true Freedom Schools.

In summary, The Generative Thinkers are dedicated to thinking “outside the box” to create new and more productive ideas. In this manner, they implement the Productive Organizations and the Prosperous Communities to accomplish The Generativity Mission.