More About Dynastic Vision

Recently, a television network featured a story about an organized crime ring. Operated from within a prison system, the journalists reported how the gang used a system based on extended family. Using coded messages, as well as a combination of improvised and modern technology, the gangs leaders reached outside the prison walls. The gangs leaders governed from within, controlling what happened outside prison walls. I will skip the gruesome details.

What caught my attention; was the encrypted messages found. The messages reminded me of how the Rothschild family using carrier pigeons and coded messages operated an extended family system and built an international dynastic legacy.

As has been mentioned before, today we have the internet, a globalization of our economy with some cultures preserving extended family systems.

Just as the Rothschild family emerges from a severely restricted ethnic ghetto, so other families can emerge from the ghettos of today. The world wide web used to preserve their family unity. Families that produce wealth and power by creating opportunity and dealing with adversity will emerge.

The questions become: what groups will choose to use far sighted dynastic vision? Will they come from a well educated, constructive economic force or will they arise from prison walls? Will today's middle class participate? Will today's upper class participate? What will emerge from today's ghettos?

If leaders with dynastic vision can emerge from within prison walls, then leaders with dynastic vision can emerge from the family table.

Why talk about Dynastic Vision?

Is Dynastic Vision passe? What is there to talk about?

To these questions I say; if you do not care what direction you want your family to take, any direction will do. If you want a family capable of creating opportunity and dealing with adversity, think in terms of creating a dynastic vision. Others might call it, a family mission statement, or having a phenomenal family. However, does that go far enough? Some men have strong dynastic instincts, and for such men dynastic vision comes naturally.

However, for most of us this is not the case. A variety of cultural and societal factors cloud our thinking, misdirect us or occupy us in such a manner that we become short sighted.

Jarred Diamond in his book Guns, Germs & Steel, points out at times technology fails to be incorporated or is abandoned. The result is that other societies end up dominating. As an example, Diamond uses Japan abandoning gun making, and China's abandonment of ocean going ships.


It is my opinion, societies that abandon or do not form a modern view of Dynastic Thinking will also be dominated. Today's technology will play a big roll in making this happen. In short, the haves and have nots will be as much about nepotism as it has in the past. Cultures that use technology to preserve family will dominate.

Dynastic Vision

Over the next few weeks The Good Sons Club will explore thoughts and observations about Dynastic Vision.
How often are we exposed to men with Dynastic Vision? Where do we find examples of Dynastic Vision? Who has Dynastic Vision? Why does Dynastic Vision matter? What is Dynastic Vision? Your thoughts on this subject are welcome.

This Is Your Brain on Motherhood - New York Times

This Is Your Brain on Motherhood - New York Times