The Pillars of the Societal Bioharmonism. A Conceptualist Contribution to the Evolution of the Contemporary Society

1. Introduction

The Contemporary society largely functions in the open space delimited by the paradigm of modernity, more correctly said the one of post-post-modernity. This includes an accent on sociologic, technologic or the other conditions that distinguish the Modern Epoch from everything that followed after it, including nuances of postmodern chaos. Therefore it is very important that researchers from interdisciplinary fields look for innovative solutions to the complex problems of today's world. In the present society, settled postmodernism represents a set of answers of intellectual, cultural, artistic, academic or philosophic order, i.e., solutions for nowadays post-post-modernism condition [1,2,3,4,5,6].

In brief, there is observed that the present social space may be a black box, not enough known and many times ignored, which makes opportune the demarche to understand the world on the basis of new paradigms. Thus, the demarche on the line of the conceptualist process becomes of great actuality and, now more than ever, when mankind becomes aware of the importance of „knowledge”, value without which we can’t imagine the 21st century society. This is the idea that represents the very mechanism of reporting to reality (be it a theoretical, institutional, linguistic or non-linguistic one). In the paper, in an essence synthesis, we are referring to a series of contributions to the quasi-unanimous idea to build the Knowledge society at planetary level. On long term we may intuit that information perpetual restructuring and harmonization may lead to an equivalent level to what might mean The Society of Consciousness [7,8,9,10,11,12].

Knowing that things are not easy to achieve, we position ourselves in the approach of this work to encourage freedom from conservatism and sometimes ignorance to have the chance to highlight the harmony of life and nature alike ("bio-eco-geo" type harmony). Of course, in this regards knowledge and tenacity may induce the courage to dare decipher nuances of the „mystery” of the contemporary reality. In this context innovating concepts, as an expression of a free and dynamic thinking, make it possible to accept and understand the world’s „bio-harmonism”. Therefore, at the beginning based on an empiric-scientific hope, there may be directed and then studied the societal model on balanced rut in the constants of the Living Planet and of the universal harmony [13,14,15,16,17].

Reality shows us preoccupations linked to the planet, i.e., during almost three decades UNO has reunited almost all the countries in the world at global summits regarding climate – called COP – meaning “Conference of parts”. Meanwhile, climate changes have passed from a statute of marginal problem to a global priority. In the year 2021 the 26th annual summit took place – being named COP26 and taking place in Glasgow. But there has been made only a small step forward on some problems, such as understanding to limit global heating, in order to adapt to the impact of climate changes and to provide funds in order to reach these objectives [18]. In other words, the problem remains, especially in relation to the world’s biggest polluters, which imposes new practical approaches, but based on theories and concepts with settlement potential.

In order to better understand „reality” there must be taken into account the typologies of the reality that we are currently discovering (added and combined realities), which renders more useful the concepts in the extended biologic-informational world [19]. As a landmark we have the spectrum of realities (Figure 1), from which there becomes essential to understand the physic, psychic (including by senses), spiritual realities, all of them more or less perceived around us, as a prime mystery still little distinguished, but that may correctly sustain parallel realities from virtual world that we are discovering in the 21st century.

In this not very optimistic context, the study proposes as general goal to bring its contribution to the already established ideas referring to the understanding of the sustainability process, theorizing by an applicative interpretation at societal level, of scientific-philosophic and integrative nature, reorientation through new concepts concerning the approaching contemporary reality [20,21,22,23]. We have in view the specificity of today’s world based on disordered informational explosion and with potential to generate deep disharmonies. There are described a series of conceptual pillars that aim to find mechanisms to prevent or remedy imbalances, by paradigmatic deepening necessary to generate certain complementary innovating harmonization demarches of structural elements of the human society.

The paper also has a part of theorized exemplification on the line of the bio-harmonization of the food manner in relation to the impact upon the environment at local, regional or planetary level, being mentioned new concepts and theories for the agri-food field, i.e., for the basic branch from the fields of applied biology for mankind, in the context of depletion of resources, of present demographic dynamics and climate changes.

2. Working Method

There has been made a diagnosis regarding elaborated concepts in sustaining the idea of bioharmonism at society level, but also focused on agri-food direction. There have been used previous publications that describe in detail every „pillar” of the bioharmonism, each of them on the basis of consistent bibliographic references [15,24,25,26,27,28,29]. Pragmatically, in the idea to bio harmonize, there are expressed applications and adaptations of the scientific demarche, constituting directions and specific working methods. They have been achieved during the last decade, by different projects and scientific papers, especially within diversified activities of the Center of eco-bio technologic researches from Transilvania University from Brasov (Romania).

3. Results

Regarding the evolution of society and the world as a whole, in many fields there is talk about postmodern society, but also about its limits. We may analyze at the beginning the fact that, in this context, neoliberalism, issued in the United State in the years *70-80, that pleaded for free movement of goods almost all over the worlds is not a novelty. Then globalization, that is the description of late economic capitalism, i.e., of corporate capitalism, which makes marketing become the main instrument of the economic strategy, and not only that. Postindustrial society, or informational society, or postmodern society mean on this trend a lot of restlessness and deep changes in societal groups, in cultural, in political activities and so on. Multiculturalism, tolerance, media culture, great narratives in recent years are just a few issues of the postmodernist imaginary. Let’s just mention François Lyotard, Michel Foucault, and Jean Baudrillard among the main philosophers who have established and described the postmodern condition [4,30,31]. In other words, what we mean is that postmodernism means everything and nothing specific and from here the necessity of continuous searches. Beyond philosophy, conceptual approaches go towards economy, social, ecologic and, of course, politics, covering, as we all know, extremely diverse names and fields (from biology to physics, etc., up to sociology or politology). We hope that the „seed” we are planting by the demarche centered on the integrative idea of BIOHARMINISM has a special place too [15].

In this regard, we have tried an approach from the perspective of the balanced model of the „living” („bios” = referring to life) and of the planetary life as a whole, on the ground of harmonization of imbalances caused by human activity, in the desire to find solutions for an ideational and balanced ordering of the societal post-modernism. Starting from the general to the particular, the analyses in decoding or solving as much as possible the mystery of the model of the dynamic balance from different environmental and societal levels have had as rising problem general aspects of philosophical order („biosophia”) even since before the 2000s, in order to create a framework which, through successive mechanisms of integration have made possible the theorization of the idea of „bio-harmonism” (Table 1).

Passing from a pragmatic level of interpretation of the complexity of the contemporary human society the frequent observation is that a consumption society imposes its rules, being fed with what is imposed or considered as value. It becomes more and more evident the excessive consumption of material products, but especially of harmful media products, of cultural products of obsolete value, which enhances upsetting society at all its levels. Consequently, it is imposed to find instruments in order to counteract the effects and to endlessly rethink the methods to outline a model and a common language, even with perfection limits, by preserving a somewhat unitary coherence between different compartments of the society. In this direction, we have oriented towards the specie’s primary need, directly or indirectly found in approximately 70 % of its preoccupations, namely: FOOD. Conceptualization on direction of the bio-harmonist paradigm of the branch producing and processing food made it possible the inventoried theorizing in essence in Table 2 [21,24,25,27,28].

The specifications in the tables indicate a manner to try new experiments, new formulas and economic-social, cultural but especially political strategies of new approach in order to recorrelate the impact of the human activity with concrete post-modern reality. The answer to the new approaches will maybe be found before the birth of a new cultural epoch, with a different status from the post-post-modernity one, with a configuration, a recalibration of values and new strategies that may reflect a real re-enter the womb [4,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39]. All these taking into account what may remain for many of us a nostalgia largely invalidated by the reality of the consumer society: the VALUE. And why not value as a result of the approach through bioharmonism and its theoretical and applicative concepts that have the potential to ensure the emergent transition, respectively the appearance of the new in regarding the world, at a level of superior order (Figure 2).

The current socio-economic and political model begins to have too many gaps, including of cultural and educational nature [40,41,42,43,44,45,46,47,48,49]. That is why a better harmonized ordering having the potential of in avalanche restructuring the societal components is opportune in the idea to „make peace” with the environment, with economy and ourselves on the line of fundamental reconsidering the continuity of balanced life on Earth (Figure 3).

The theoretic relocation by innovative concepts leads towards the bio harmonization of the evolution of the contemporary society that, systemically speaking, has the potentiality to generate the SOCIETAL HOMEORESY. This process means in fact a concept that represents the property, or the state, of a system to maintain its dynamic balance, having a certain degree of antinomy, but also being appropriate to the dynamics of the human society face to the idea of societal homeostasis in the sense referring to the property of a system to maintain a static balance of the initial conditions [15,17,50].

Taking into account, as we have been emphasizing in other occasions, that „routine and prejudices can’t suffocate endlessly ideas” and that „if we learn from changes in the world then we will see the knowledge loop that will generate bridges by punching between today and tomorrow”, we are convinced that the idea of bio-harmonism, with its corresponding basic pillars emphasized in the paper, becomes an important landmark within the context of accelerated changes of the world and of the modern human society.

4. Conclusions

BIOHARMONISM, by the ideational newness, proposes a reorientation of the current society approach on a rut balanced and harmonized in the „Living Planet” constants and model, having as a result the delineation of a variant of socio-economic and cultural model able to sustain the current society, mainly characterized by the Biologic Revolution in an expansion Informational Era.

Processes and mechanisms of bioharmonization aim to bioeconomic action balanced in relation to technical creation at 4.0. Industry level and with the corresponding cultural and psychosocial implications, in essence outlining the understanding of the societal development by taking the harmony of the PLANETARY „LIVING” AS AN ANALYTICAL BASIS AND MODEL, which may be sustained by conceptual, doctrinaire and philosophical pillars of the perceived Reality specific to the today’s world.

The SOCIETAL BIOHARMONIZATION expresses a system of complementary equations that holistically imposes the Environment in the economic equation, the Citizen in the social equation and the Science in the political equation, elements that, by multiple and emergent integration induce, from systemic perspective, the state of „societal homeoresy” and, from political perspective, the bioharmonist ideology, as source of doctrinaire regeneration in a changing world.