This may seem a rather abstract way of showing the human activity system; I wanted to capture both its extensiveness and something of its complexity in an accessible way. I have used the large dotted boxes and overlapped them (similar to a Venn diagram) and a four-way arrow-headed cross to try and capture a flavour of this complexity and interconnectedness.
The major hypothesis of this work has three elements: (1) that this model will stand up to scrutiny, undoubtedly a formal literature search demonstrating the key interactions would useful, (2) that human behaviour is not a given but an emergent property of the entire system, (3) it follows that since we make our culture we can modify our behaviour.
With those things established its a matter of values to decide if and how we should make changes. Essentially the optimistic conclusion is that change for the better is possible.
Part 1 - Review - The Human System