"The systems we seek to transform are held in place by something vast and powerful below our awareness, our own individual and collective subconscious.
Take, for example, the current failed economic system which disregards the value of the majority of its members. To what degree does that failed system reflect a society of individuals that bases their internal value on the goods and devices (i.e.-credit) in which it is now entrapped?"
That's from the group description/orientation. It does not define the problem well enough. Here's more. Will you add?
The situation is worse, and much older, than suggested! Reduction of human beings to things began about four hundred years ago, far ahead of the post WW1 emergence of our failed economic system. Internal value was flushed out and away. Internal became irrelevant, except as a hole to be filled, a center of appetites awaiting satiation.*
The failed economic system, increasingly disinterested in the well-being of humans, is another product of reductionism, brought into being by a sad whole system of people already diminished. Goods and devices are substitutes for being and becoming, which are more satisfying and health-maintaining. They fill the hole; lifeless things replace living things. Corporate logos are better known than birds, plants and watershed divides. Now we (overall) are the living dead and the planet is coming along.
Reductionism must be demoted and its process countered. The reversal recommended in occupy yourself very nicely overlaps Adbusters' pre-OWS inspirational "No more dead time!" All are called to life, to be and become. Our great potential is to recover wholeness, rediscover human scale and finally become nature working.**
* A remarkable assortment of deviants and dreamers who were producers found a sort of recovery in emigration to the New World and managed to institutionalize otherwise fading principles (recall what happened to all men are created equal in less than ten years) in the document that became the Constitution of the United States.
** "We are nature working" has been attributed to Penny Livingston-Stark.
There was no meaningful assumption to my post.
In the context of this discussion I have just seen the opportunity to put a stick into the anthill (now I would rather say to stir the pool.) - that was all.
The result exceeds by far my expectations. Never before in my over 3 years old history of social networking I succeeded to provoke an answer so in line with my thinking.
It certainly deserves appropriate and meaningful reply, including my real assumptions in coherent form. For the time being you must not waste your time to create a glossary - as a non native speaker I consulted wiktionary to be sure of correct understanding and every concept in your post fits.
I think what we need is definition of the problem <-> appropriate context -> problem understanding = solution. May such vision justify my intention?
I can't put velocity over quality :-) composing my answer, neither, like you, have I excess time on my hands. I nevertheless hope it will not take more than 48 hours.