There are no available models because the challenge to the imagination transcends the world of model builders by which strategies have been so influenced. It could be concluded that new possibilities for global governance are to be found beyond the strategic incompatibilities in which visions of its future tend to become entangled. The challenge lies in marrying new metaphors to models to ensure the embodiment of new levels of insight in appropriate organizational form. Exploration of metaphor needs to be liberated from the ghetto of literary studies in which it has languished. People at every level of society need to be empowered in their use of metaphor to reframe the challenges they personally face in exploring new opportunities unconstrained by the outmoded patterns of the past.
Metaphors can become catalysts of self-organization.
They can offer new approaches to intractable problems such as unemployment, drugs, discrimination, and misuse of resources. From this the global policy-makers may draw fruitful metaphors to guide their formulation of responses to new opportunities and crises. This vision of global governance does not call for radical transformation of institutions. Rather it calls for a shift in the way of thinking about what is circulated through society's information systems as the triggering force for any action and its integration. This quarrel between models and metaphors could be transformed by focusing more effectively on the metaphoric dimensions already so vital to any sustainable motivation of public opinion.