Specialization has become a globalized religion. Specialization is a prerequisite not only for survival but for existence! The perception that called it forth, shot it to ontological levels.

We live in a world of specialists with very particular style elements. This world is – by itself- an illusion. A higher vantage point must be actively represented by a different breed so that integration may become possible. Without integration there is only decline and disintegration; disintegration that is prevalent today but obvious only to a few: to the elite.

Specialization without context is simply not credible; it is of course more than credible among those specialists who can’t perceive the context: for them it is the only perceived reality.

There is a reality higher than the horizontal field of specialized areas. In lack of a perceived context the number of the fields of specialization is increasing and the areas of specialization are becoming ever smaller.

Specialists suffer in a constant identity crisis since their identity is almost purely quantitative. If they don’t align to principles of integration, their existence is absurd, since it is based on a contradiction: the more focused their specialization is the more incompetent they are in the embedding system/environment; what/who is the best is defined by pure quantity.

Once we transcend the horizontal plane of specialization,

- leadership consultants are not credible in questions of principles,

- brain surgeons are not credible when it comes to healing,

- people devising new abstractions in physics are not credible in questions of space, time and matter,

- branding technicians are not credible in questions of identity,

- bankers are not credible in economics,

- politicians have no credibility and sensibility to hierarchy and the state (probably since Metternich and Windischgraetz),

- economists are not credible in questions of wealth,

- artists lost their way to directly experience higher realities and turned their attention the opposite way, exhibiting dead animals in formaldehyde,

- philosophers are not credible regarding the Truth,

- psychologists are not credible in questions of consciousness and the root cause of behavior

- business can’t comprehend leadership and

- academia lost its credibility in the question of elitism

- so on and so forth.

The problem is not with specialization of course. The problem is with the lack of willingness to align vertically to the principles providing the foundation for integration. When – driven by arrogance on the one hand and ignorance on the other - representatives of a small area start to think of their particular areas in absolute terms, we know we have a grave problem.

When we recognize that we have reached a stage whereby the fundamentals of the whole system must be challenged and the foundations are accepted by the overwhelming majority as facts that nobody may challenge, we have to make principle based choices; such choices demand leadership.