Yes, its a word. If socialism is capitalism with a floor and a ceiling, then socialnetworkism is socialism without the central planning.
In Einstein's seminal 1949 paper, "Why Socialism", he astutely points out that the real challenge to socialism is central planning, and he humbly acknowledges that he doesn't have the tools to solve the problem, leaving it to future generations. No big deal - we have the Internet, which is the decentralized planning network. We solve the problem of central planning with a decentralized social network, do you get it? The dialectic of socialism/capitalism is resolved via decentralized social networks - socialnetworkism.
Central planning is the real crux of both capitalism and socialism. In a socialist economy, it is the state that does the central planning, whereas in a capitalist economy, it is the oligarchs and their cartel monopolies that do the central planning, simply by hijacking the state. Don't take my word for it, just look around you. Here's Albert Einstein:
"Private capital tends to become concentrated in few hands, partly because of competition among the capitalists, and partly because technological development and the increasing division of labor encourage the formation of larger units of production at the expense of smaller ones. The result of these developments is an oligarchy of private capital the enormous power of which cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized political society. This is true since the members of legislative bodies are selected by political parties, largely financed or otherwise influenced by private capitalists who, for all practical purposes, separate the electorate from the legislature. The consequence is that the representatives of the people do not in fact sufficiently protect the interests of the underprivileged sections of the population. Moreover, under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information (press, radio, education). It is thus extremely difficult, and indeed in most cases quite impossible, for the individual citizen to come to objective conclusions and to make intelligent use of his political rights."
Free market, online, consumer-driven socialism takes voluntary responsibility for the least among us, the voiceless, and the organism as a whole. In this case, not just humanity but all of mother earth. It does so by effectively persuading the general public to invest in the commons. And it does so on the open market, by competing online for the attention of people who want to be part of the solution. By building a social network of private nonprofits who are each highly efficient and verifiably trustworthy in their own niche, a self-regulating nonprofit collective evolves which is neither capitalist nor communist but competitively socialist, compelled by market forces to maintain optimal efficiency while remaining mission-driven to address the social issues of our time which government tries desperately to ignore. This evolving cybercollective is destined to address the issues of poverty, violence, and the environment in a manner far more appropriate, helpful, and cost-effective than government ever could. Indeed, peace and prosperity are existential threats to government. Government will never allow peace and prosperity, and social networks are destined to usher in an age of peace and prosperity in spite of intransigent government opposition. Don't laugh, it's true!
Here's a quote from Dwight Eisenhower:
"I think the people of the world want peace so bad, one of these days government is going to have to get out of the way and let them have it."
This evolving cybercollective is being born. the Asylum Project promotes it, by reframing our overstanding of the times. In the end, the market will likely reward any business entity that entertains us with the truth, or at least a potent version of it.
and the truth is - socialnetworkism. Consumer built online socialism. don't blame me, its not my idea. Its yours.
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Sunday, August 18, 2013
the future of social networks
Eventually the consumers of social network technology will realize that government is never going to end hunger or war, and they will do it themselves.
You read it here first: Consumers will organize online anonymously and non-hierarchically to feed the hungry, end poverty, and end war in a manner far more effective than government ever could.
This consumer-based social network will use the technology provided them to compete with/against government and win marketshare in the public service sector, as a consumer-created social service nonprofit. Which happens to be nonhierarchical, holarchical, and thus organizationally anarchist...
Government is vested in the propagation of poverty and war, which is very out of touch to the modern marketplace. The modern marketplace views poverty and war as boorish, patriarchal, and obsolete. This means that the modern marketplace is looking to invest in a more holistic, win-win vision of global economics. The anarchist consumer nonprofit will provide this vision, simply through the democratic process of allowing the best ideas to percolate through the core of the social network's distribution chain.
This is better than government, and better than business. This is social(network)ism!
Social action networks are destined to exchange real-time information through worldwide webs, which will lead to the exchange of goods and services at optimal levels of ecological advantage. This isn't just consumerism, this is a cost-effective, highly leveraged social service. And as we know, ecological investment leads to economic dividends...
These same social action networks will 'feed the hungry, end poverty and end war' by promoting a platform of solutions built around the vision of gardening as the focus of public education. This is a very simple thesis. If it were too complicated to fit into a sound bite, it wouldn't work. I'm serious.
Listen: If you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day, but if you teach him how to fish, you feed him for a lifetime. So why is it a boy can go to school for ten to twenty years without learning how to fish? Or garden?
If we grow up without learning how to grow our own food, build our own shelter, take care of ourselves and others, then we have no business calling ourselves educated.
This country was founded on principles of self-reliance, which turns out to detrimental to central authority. Central authority demands a certain level of self-insufficiency, as it were. Self-sufficiency needs no higher authority than itself.
So thanks to the machinations of a very manipulative central authority (by which is meant government by which is meant the Illuminati/Babylonian banking bloodlines of the Federal Reserve) the great mainstays of American society, the can-do spirit and the get-er-done mentality has been replaced with dependency on the state.
For a short time, anyway. It turns out you can't eat money, and it doesn't keep you warm at night, either. Regaining our self-sufficiency requires that we remember how to feed and shelter and clothe ourselves. This is the economic revival we have been waiting for, it just comes at the expense of our leviathan, militaristic state.
And it is ushered in through the legalization of industrial hemp. Otherwise known as ganja.
So. by promoting gardening as the focus of public education while at the same time demanding debt forgiveness, the social action network holds our pernicious central authority at bay while incubating a culture which is sustainable, healthy, ecologically and economically sound. And this creates a knowledge reservoir of ecologically-oriented survival skills that will, in time, become America's greatest export: Innovation and wisdom.
You read it here first: Consumers will organize online anonymously and non-hierarchically to feed the hungry, end poverty, and end war in a manner far more effective than government ever could.
This consumer-based social network will use the technology provided them to compete with/against government and win marketshare in the public service sector, as a consumer-created social service nonprofit. Which happens to be nonhierarchical, holarchical, and thus organizationally anarchist...
Government is vested in the propagation of poverty and war, which is very out of touch to the modern marketplace. The modern marketplace views poverty and war as boorish, patriarchal, and obsolete. This means that the modern marketplace is looking to invest in a more holistic, win-win vision of global economics. The anarchist consumer nonprofit will provide this vision, simply through the democratic process of allowing the best ideas to percolate through the core of the social network's distribution chain.
This is better than government, and better than business. This is social(network)ism!
Social action networks are destined to exchange real-time information through worldwide webs, which will lead to the exchange of goods and services at optimal levels of ecological advantage. This isn't just consumerism, this is a cost-effective, highly leveraged social service. And as we know, ecological investment leads to economic dividends...
These same social action networks will 'feed the hungry, end poverty and end war' by promoting a platform of solutions built around the vision of gardening as the focus of public education. This is a very simple thesis. If it were too complicated to fit into a sound bite, it wouldn't work. I'm serious.
Listen: If you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day, but if you teach him how to fish, you feed him for a lifetime. So why is it a boy can go to school for ten to twenty years without learning how to fish? Or garden?
If we grow up without learning how to grow our own food, build our own shelter, take care of ourselves and others, then we have no business calling ourselves educated.
This country was founded on principles of self-reliance, which turns out to detrimental to central authority. Central authority demands a certain level of self-insufficiency, as it were. Self-sufficiency needs no higher authority than itself.
So thanks to the machinations of a very manipulative central authority (by which is meant government by which is meant the Illuminati/Babylonian banking bloodlines of the Federal Reserve) the great mainstays of American society, the can-do spirit and the get-er-done mentality has been replaced with dependency on the state.
For a short time, anyway. It turns out you can't eat money, and it doesn't keep you warm at night, either. Regaining our self-sufficiency requires that we remember how to feed and shelter and clothe ourselves. This is the economic revival we have been waiting for, it just comes at the expense of our leviathan, militaristic state.
And it is ushered in through the legalization of industrial hemp. Otherwise known as ganja.
So. by promoting gardening as the focus of public education while at the same time demanding debt forgiveness, the social action network holds our pernicious central authority at bay while incubating a culture which is sustainable, healthy, ecologically and economically sound. And this creates a knowledge reservoir of ecologically-oriented survival skills that will, in time, become America's greatest export: Innovation and wisdom.
Dharma culture
Health is wealth.
Restoring people's health restores their wealth. In this era of vanishing wealth in America, restoring people's health is the basic first step.
To restore people's health we need to replace profit-centered agribusiness with health-oriented permaculture, agro-ecology, and gardening. Gardening needs to be the centerpiece of public education.
To get rid of agribusiness and pro-agribusiness educational curricula, we need to get rid of Wall St. dominance.
To get rid of Wall St. dominance we need to get rid of the Federal Reserve. We need the Treasury to print hemp currency and mint its own coins.
To get rid of Wall Street, end the Fed, and get the Treasury to print hemp currency we need to organize as a Debtor's Union in support of debt forgiveness. This is prophecied in the Bible, actually. The Bible refers to it as a Jubilee Year. We need a Jubilee.
To organize as a debtor's union, we need a unifying philosophy; an axiom which declares matter to be composed of energy. Energy causes materiality, and thus material wealth can never satisfy our spiritual needs. Materialistic culture and consumer capitalism are unfit to provide the human race with anything resembling genuine happiness and well-being. We need a spiritual path through the world of form. We are on a quest for dharma.
The world is mind-made, and thoughts are things. We've got a lot to accomplish.
Restoring people's health restores their wealth. In this era of vanishing wealth in America, restoring people's health is the basic first step.
To restore people's health we need to replace profit-centered agribusiness with health-oriented permaculture, agro-ecology, and gardening. Gardening needs to be the centerpiece of public education.
To get rid of agribusiness and pro-agribusiness educational curricula, we need to get rid of Wall St. dominance.
To get rid of Wall St. dominance we need to get rid of the Federal Reserve. We need the Treasury to print hemp currency and mint its own coins.
To get rid of Wall Street, end the Fed, and get the Treasury to print hemp currency we need to organize as a Debtor's Union in support of debt forgiveness. This is prophecied in the Bible, actually. The Bible refers to it as a Jubilee Year. We need a Jubilee.
To organize as a debtor's union, we need a unifying philosophy; an axiom which declares matter to be composed of energy. Energy causes materiality, and thus material wealth can never satisfy our spiritual needs. Materialistic culture and consumer capitalism are unfit to provide the human race with anything resembling genuine happiness and well-being. We need a spiritual path through the world of form. We are on a quest for dharma.
The world is mind-made, and thoughts are things. We've got a lot to accomplish.
Tuesday, August 6, 2013
mammon under siege
deep within the heart of the gospel of Christ is the seed of a socialist revolution. Mammon has been under siege for 2000 years.
This is why so many followers of the Way were martyred. Not because of their faith, but because of the socialist practices their faith demanded of them. The practice of the Way of Christ is enough to topple governments, world orders, and the economics of consumption entirely. The Way of Christ overthrows the empire of mammon, and mammon has survived this long only through propaganda and deceit...
The rich and powerful have been terrified of the gospel of Christ since the very beginning of his ministry. In fact, the old Empire invented a dogmatic, state-sponsored religion called Christianity to distract the faithful from following Christ's teachings, and believe it or not, this ruse actually worked.
...but it won't work forever. Repent of materialism, for its end is near. Fiat currencies are falling.
So what is this socialism that Jesus was killed for preaching? Well, its not communism. Jesus didn't say give up your things or else. Jesus said give up your things and be saved. Giving up our private property is part of the spiritual path but everyone walks down this path at a different speed, and the teaching is not a formula but a guide. We share a destination but our journeys are unique.
As an example: There is a genuine distinction to be made between the householder and the renunciate, and the householder is not expected to make the same journey as the renunciate. Indeed, the householder is expected to provide the material requisites necessary for the renunciate to pursue the spiritual journey. Both sides depend on the other. Ancient cultures are aware of this, but America is hardly ancient. And between these two opposites lie worlds of varying relativity, all of which recognize the ultimate impermanence of the world and its occupants. In other words, even the 'worldly' householder knows of the impermanence of his household and does not place faith in his household's ability to provide him with eternal truth. The eternal is the cause of materiality, not the other way around.
We live in an interesting age, where the line between renunciation and worldliness has become a porous boundary. Spiritual seekers have careers and relationships, and so do spiritual teachers. The 'either/or' dichotomy so prevalent in logical, dualistic and patriarchal thinking is being replaced by a 'both/and' dichotomy which reveals paradox to be inherent within the fabric of reality itself. This paradoxical reality is inherently nondualistic, where students teach and teachers learn, where renunciates work and householders meditate and pray. It is critical to recognize that our individual dependence upon materiality is a deeply personal decision, unique to ourselves and uncritique-able. Our material needs are known to us alone and no other. We must choose for ourselves our degree of relationship with the physical world. The state cannot take away our right to choose for ourselves what we need, nor did Jesus. However the state can encourage us to want less and serve more, just as Jesus did. This is bad news for mammon and good news for our hearts.
Think of socialism as capitalism with a floor and a ceiling. Everyone in the middle just experiences capitalism like we do now, but under socialism there is a safety net that catches anyone who falls into poverty. Poverty is regarded as a social ill that must be remedied, and with the elimination of poverty, violence and survival stresses decrease. By committing to provide for the global community's basic needs we eliminate the existential paranoia which leads to nationalization, war, and corporate profit (i.e.plunder).
The expense of this social net is paid for by the ceiling. Everyone is allowed to get rich under socialism, but no one is allowed to become filthy rich until after everyone's basic needs are met. Material wealth is understood not to satisfy people's spiritual poverty. This way everyone feels life is worth living - the poor, and the rich. This is the kingdom of heaven - pretty simple, actually!
the point is that within this social net lies the opportunity for spiritual seekers to renounce materialism and focus exclusively on the path of spiritual realization. This opportunity is anathema to consumption economies, where any nonmaterialistic human purpose or agenda threatens institutions of authority.
Despite the obstacles this movement is inevitable. The material world is ephemeral and as such cannot provide unconditional happiness. Those who yearn for the unconditioned must renounce the primacy of materialism. This is the real Copernican revolution of Christ. The world cannot provide us with inner peace. To find inner peace, we must remove our longing gaze from the world. And as we do, any society built on worldly consumption loses its legitimacy. Capitalism does not allow for this nonmaterialistic mode of living and as this mode of living inexorably grows so must capitalism wane.
and the key element of socialism - the key element that Jesus died preaching and practicing - is that everyone's basic needs deserve to be met, regardless of who they are or what their karma is. Just because he's a drunk and she's a hooker doesn't mean we get to judge them and find them wanting. The practices of forgiveness, tolerance, and compassion are very powerful and must be built into the very fabric of any sustainable culture. Without this moral practice, society is destined to consume itself and collapse. Those who are not worthy or deserving of our time and our energy are nonetheless worthy of a hot meal, a decent place to sleep, some hygiene, some healing, a little company, some respect and some compassion. Not because they deserve it, but because none of us deserves it, and we are all undeservedly and equally blessed with the grace of life. As such we have a moral responsibility to share the blessings of the world to the deserving and the undeserving alike, for none of us is truly deserving and none of us is truly undeserving. We are all incomprehensibly miraculous.
For the last 10,000 years society's challenge has been getting the corruption out of the distribution of resources. Governments, once established to legitimize wealth distribution, coopt the wealth distribution process and perpetuate their own genetic heirarchies rather than the societies they are meant to serve. It is critical to realize that the health of any society is measured by the degree to which we provide for our weakest and most vulnerable members. By this criteria capitalism is a social failure and a moral disease - the 'predatory phase' of human evolution.
but don't take my word for it. Please read what Albert Einstein has to say in defense of socialism here: http://monthlyreview.org/2009/05/01/why-socialism
This is why so many followers of the Way were martyred. Not because of their faith, but because of the socialist practices their faith demanded of them. The practice of the Way of Christ is enough to topple governments, world orders, and the economics of consumption entirely. The Way of Christ overthrows the empire of mammon, and mammon has survived this long only through propaganda and deceit...
The rich and powerful have been terrified of the gospel of Christ since the very beginning of his ministry. In fact, the old Empire invented a dogmatic, state-sponsored religion called Christianity to distract the faithful from following Christ's teachings, and believe it or not, this ruse actually worked.
...but it won't work forever. Repent of materialism, for its end is near. Fiat currencies are falling.
So what is this socialism that Jesus was killed for preaching? Well, its not communism. Jesus didn't say give up your things or else. Jesus said give up your things and be saved. Giving up our private property is part of the spiritual path but everyone walks down this path at a different speed, and the teaching is not a formula but a guide. We share a destination but our journeys are unique.
As an example: There is a genuine distinction to be made between the householder and the renunciate, and the householder is not expected to make the same journey as the renunciate. Indeed, the householder is expected to provide the material requisites necessary for the renunciate to pursue the spiritual journey. Both sides depend on the other. Ancient cultures are aware of this, but America is hardly ancient. And between these two opposites lie worlds of varying relativity, all of which recognize the ultimate impermanence of the world and its occupants. In other words, even the 'worldly' householder knows of the impermanence of his household and does not place faith in his household's ability to provide him with eternal truth. The eternal is the cause of materiality, not the other way around.
We live in an interesting age, where the line between renunciation and worldliness has become a porous boundary. Spiritual seekers have careers and relationships, and so do spiritual teachers. The 'either/or' dichotomy so prevalent in logical, dualistic and patriarchal thinking is being replaced by a 'both/and' dichotomy which reveals paradox to be inherent within the fabric of reality itself. This paradoxical reality is inherently nondualistic, where students teach and teachers learn, where renunciates work and householders meditate and pray. It is critical to recognize that our individual dependence upon materiality is a deeply personal decision, unique to ourselves and uncritique-able. Our material needs are known to us alone and no other. We must choose for ourselves our degree of relationship with the physical world. The state cannot take away our right to choose for ourselves what we need, nor did Jesus. However the state can encourage us to want less and serve more, just as Jesus did. This is bad news for mammon and good news for our hearts.
Think of socialism as capitalism with a floor and a ceiling. Everyone in the middle just experiences capitalism like we do now, but under socialism there is a safety net that catches anyone who falls into poverty. Poverty is regarded as a social ill that must be remedied, and with the elimination of poverty, violence and survival stresses decrease. By committing to provide for the global community's basic needs we eliminate the existential paranoia which leads to nationalization, war, and corporate profit (i.e.plunder).
The expense of this social net is paid for by the ceiling. Everyone is allowed to get rich under socialism, but no one is allowed to become filthy rich until after everyone's basic needs are met. Material wealth is understood not to satisfy people's spiritual poverty. This way everyone feels life is worth living - the poor, and the rich. This is the kingdom of heaven - pretty simple, actually!
the point is that within this social net lies the opportunity for spiritual seekers to renounce materialism and focus exclusively on the path of spiritual realization. This opportunity is anathema to consumption economies, where any nonmaterialistic human purpose or agenda threatens institutions of authority.
Despite the obstacles this movement is inevitable. The material world is ephemeral and as such cannot provide unconditional happiness. Those who yearn for the unconditioned must renounce the primacy of materialism. This is the real Copernican revolution of Christ. The world cannot provide us with inner peace. To find inner peace, we must remove our longing gaze from the world. And as we do, any society built on worldly consumption loses its legitimacy. Capitalism does not allow for this nonmaterialistic mode of living and as this mode of living inexorably grows so must capitalism wane.
and the key element of socialism - the key element that Jesus died preaching and practicing - is that everyone's basic needs deserve to be met, regardless of who they are or what their karma is. Just because he's a drunk and she's a hooker doesn't mean we get to judge them and find them wanting. The practices of forgiveness, tolerance, and compassion are very powerful and must be built into the very fabric of any sustainable culture. Without this moral practice, society is destined to consume itself and collapse. Those who are not worthy or deserving of our time and our energy are nonetheless worthy of a hot meal, a decent place to sleep, some hygiene, some healing, a little company, some respect and some compassion. Not because they deserve it, but because none of us deserves it, and we are all undeservedly and equally blessed with the grace of life. As such we have a moral responsibility to share the blessings of the world to the deserving and the undeserving alike, for none of us is truly deserving and none of us is truly undeserving. We are all incomprehensibly miraculous.
For the last 10,000 years society's challenge has been getting the corruption out of the distribution of resources. Governments, once established to legitimize wealth distribution, coopt the wealth distribution process and perpetuate their own genetic heirarchies rather than the societies they are meant to serve. It is critical to realize that the health of any society is measured by the degree to which we provide for our weakest and most vulnerable members. By this criteria capitalism is a social failure and a moral disease - the 'predatory phase' of human evolution.
but don't take my word for it. Please read what Albert Einstein has to say in defense of socialism here: http://monthlyreview.org/2009/05/01/why-socialism
Wednesday, December 26, 2012
Gardening is public service
we are moving away from a world of consumption and moving towards a world of service. This is much like turning a battleship; it doesn't happen right away. Turning a battleship around takes time, and turning around an economy takes even longer. What's important to see is that we've started turning.
Moving away from a world of consumption will be an earth-shifting process. Markets themselves will reorient, moving away from materialistic, consumption-based production while moving towards nonprofit, service-based production. We live in interesting times.
Hence the Asylum Project. A non profit corporation competing for your attention in a blog-heavy world. Our aim is to guide your attention towards a platform of solutions.
Corporations who profit from consumption will lose value and may go bankrupt. Many ecologically damaging jobs will be transformed into ecologically healing ones. Consumers pay for it, like always. Only this time, consumers are investing not in materialism's capacity to provide meaning and happiness but nonmaterialism's capacity to provide meaning and happiness. This subtle difference is the ground of our worldshift. The time is soon when highly efficient, highly competitive nonprofits will compete for market share in the private sector while collectively competing with public service - i.e. "the guvment" -over brand loyalty. A bloated, cumbersome, corrupt and morally bankrupt monopolistic government is about to see some competition from the private sector in the realm of public service - and that competition is going to transform government's legendary inefficiencies.
The human survival mechanism is already seen to be kicking in. We are evolving, because we have no choice.
Remember that humans are at their best when circumstances are at their worst. When an ice storm knocked out power in Canada, folks with meat in the freezer had huge driveway cookouts and people burned furniture in public to keep crowds warm. Community arrived instantly. Newspapers reported that people were disappointed when the power was restored! For that matter, can anyone recall what circumstances created America's 'greatest generation'? Dire ones, we may expect. Oh yeah - WWII. Humans are at their best when circumstances are at their worst, and has anyone taken notice of America's recent circumstances?
What happens is that our society, which has programmed our egos to be consuming, selfish, gluttonous, and greedy, occasionally fails, and when that happens, the ego's autopilot goes into manual mode. Our ordinary, selfish value system (what's in it for me? what do I want?) is replaced by a selfless value system (what needs to be done? how best to do it?) We find that we are actually more happy serving others than we ever are serving ourselves. Serving ourselves is a recipe for discontent; its like trying to sunbathe on a submarine. Serving others is the best thing we can do, and consequently serving others creates the most positive emotional feedback loop. We're actually happier that way. But don't tell that to the global corporate economy, who is determined to keep the population enslaved to a mindset of consumption - and consequently, unhappy materialism.
Lets focus on moving towards a world of service. the free market, orienting itself towards service-based production, is beginning to show signs of rewarding virtue. Faint signs, sure, but by the time it gets obvious this blog will read 'I told you so'. the greatest value in the market is now to be tapped into by correcting the trade imbalance between the haves and the have-nots. By providing the haves with a a functioning planetary life-support system, good water, good air, stable temperatures, abundance, peace, leisure, and health, private sector public service would provide havenots with deeply meaningful employment in the great healing of Earth.
As we invest more and more energy into moving towards a world of service, gluttony, greed, and selfishness will fall by the wayside. Private corporate profits will slump and these corporate losses will be absorbed into a new economy, where nonprofits absorb the great bulk of global investment. This is an investment in a healthy and healthful planet. This is an investment in healing. Consumption-based job losses will coincide with service-oriented job creation.
How do we create a world of service?
I'm going to suggest we begin by making gardening the centerpiece of public education.
Moving away from a world of consumption will be an earth-shifting process. Markets themselves will reorient, moving away from materialistic, consumption-based production while moving towards nonprofit, service-based production. We live in interesting times.
Hence the Asylum Project. A non profit corporation competing for your attention in a blog-heavy world. Our aim is to guide your attention towards a platform of solutions.
Corporations who profit from consumption will lose value and may go bankrupt. Many ecologically damaging jobs will be transformed into ecologically healing ones. Consumers pay for it, like always. Only this time, consumers are investing not in materialism's capacity to provide meaning and happiness but nonmaterialism's capacity to provide meaning and happiness. This subtle difference is the ground of our worldshift. The time is soon when highly efficient, highly competitive nonprofits will compete for market share in the private sector while collectively competing with public service - i.e. "the guvment" -over brand loyalty. A bloated, cumbersome, corrupt and morally bankrupt monopolistic government is about to see some competition from the private sector in the realm of public service - and that competition is going to transform government's legendary inefficiencies.
The human survival mechanism is already seen to be kicking in. We are evolving, because we have no choice.
Remember that humans are at their best when circumstances are at their worst. When an ice storm knocked out power in Canada, folks with meat in the freezer had huge driveway cookouts and people burned furniture in public to keep crowds warm. Community arrived instantly. Newspapers reported that people were disappointed when the power was restored! For that matter, can anyone recall what circumstances created America's 'greatest generation'? Dire ones, we may expect. Oh yeah - WWII. Humans are at their best when circumstances are at their worst, and has anyone taken notice of America's recent circumstances?
What happens is that our society, which has programmed our egos to be consuming, selfish, gluttonous, and greedy, occasionally fails, and when that happens, the ego's autopilot goes into manual mode. Our ordinary, selfish value system (what's in it for me? what do I want?) is replaced by a selfless value system (what needs to be done? how best to do it?) We find that we are actually more happy serving others than we ever are serving ourselves. Serving ourselves is a recipe for discontent; its like trying to sunbathe on a submarine. Serving others is the best thing we can do, and consequently serving others creates the most positive emotional feedback loop. We're actually happier that way. But don't tell that to the global corporate economy, who is determined to keep the population enslaved to a mindset of consumption - and consequently, unhappy materialism.
Lets focus on moving towards a world of service. the free market, orienting itself towards service-based production, is beginning to show signs of rewarding virtue. Faint signs, sure, but by the time it gets obvious this blog will read 'I told you so'. the greatest value in the market is now to be tapped into by correcting the trade imbalance between the haves and the have-nots. By providing the haves with a a functioning planetary life-support system, good water, good air, stable temperatures, abundance, peace, leisure, and health, private sector public service would provide havenots with deeply meaningful employment in the great healing of Earth.
As we invest more and more energy into moving towards a world of service, gluttony, greed, and selfishness will fall by the wayside. Private corporate profits will slump and these corporate losses will be absorbed into a new economy, where nonprofits absorb the great bulk of global investment. This is an investment in a healthy and healthful planet. This is an investment in healing. Consumption-based job losses will coincide with service-oriented job creation.
How do we create a world of service?
I'm going to suggest we begin by making gardening the centerpiece of public education.
Thursday, August 2, 2012
A political agenda
This is our political platform so far:
1. Gardening must be the centerpiece of public education.
2. Usurious debt must be forgiven, as mandated by Jesus Christ.
3. The Federal Reserve must be abolished.
4. Hemp must be legalized and hemp farmers need to unionize.
5. Economic investment must focus on ecological rehabilitation, from retirement ecovillages to permaculture hosteling.
6. Election campaigns must be publicly funded and elected officials must manage soup kitchens.
7. Meditation must become part of academic curricula.
8. The Constitution needs to be amended to negate corporate personhood.
9. The Constitution must honor the original 13th amendment.
10. Public banking must replace the private banking cartel.
1. Gardening must be the centerpiece of public education.
2. Usurious debt must be forgiven, as mandated by Jesus Christ.
3. The Federal Reserve must be abolished.
4. Hemp must be legalized and hemp farmers need to unionize.
5. Economic investment must focus on ecological rehabilitation, from retirement ecovillages to permaculture hosteling.
6. Election campaigns must be publicly funded and elected officials must manage soup kitchens.
7. Meditation must become part of academic curricula.
8. The Constitution needs to be amended to negate corporate personhood.
9. The Constitution must honor the original 13th amendment.
10. Public banking must replace the private banking cartel.
Saturday, July 14, 2012
Free energy
Capitalism depends upon scarcity. An economic model with infinite supply creates a demand nearing zero. Take away scarcity, take away capitalism. Now we see why the State ruins her legitimacy in order to monopolize oil, and thus energy: as long as energy is finite, there must be a state to provide for its distribution.
Whether that state is moral or ethical we may pause to contemplate, for any state who exercises restraint in the pursuit of energy dominance may find themselves existentially threatened by a state who doesn't.
Worse yet for the state, technology is developing (or remembering) free energy, and with infinite supply demand nears zero, and the state withers and dies.
To be replaced by on online social network. Interesting thesis, isn't it?
Thus, the state needs to perpetuate finite and increasingly scarce energy consumption in order to exist. Infinite energy would lead to a world where private enterprise catered to citizens' every want and need. Citizens being surprisingly irrational, illogical, and compassionate, as it were.
Because what we all want most of all is to be happy. And being happy means feeling good, and we feel best by providing valuable service. So the more we good we do, the more good we feel, and since everybody wants to feel good, there's real market demand for any organization capable of providing effective, cost-efficient public service.
Because that's what we all want to invest in, right?
Welcome to Old Spiderwoman's world wide web. Here amongst the ether, as it were.
The current paradigm of scarcity propagation is being replaced with a paradigm of abundance distribution, and the nation-state is terminally Ill. Nikolai Tesla was a direct threat to the state. So was Jesus Christ.
Whether that state is moral or ethical we may pause to contemplate, for any state who exercises restraint in the pursuit of energy dominance may find themselves existentially threatened by a state who doesn't.
Worse yet for the state, technology is developing (or remembering) free energy, and with infinite supply demand nears zero, and the state withers and dies.
To be replaced by on online social network. Interesting thesis, isn't it?
Thus, the state needs to perpetuate finite and increasingly scarce energy consumption in order to exist. Infinite energy would lead to a world where private enterprise catered to citizens' every want and need. Citizens being surprisingly irrational, illogical, and compassionate, as it were.
Because what we all want most of all is to be happy. And being happy means feeling good, and we feel best by providing valuable service. So the more we good we do, the more good we feel, and since everybody wants to feel good, there's real market demand for any organization capable of providing effective, cost-efficient public service.
Because that's what we all want to invest in, right?
Welcome to Old Spiderwoman's world wide web. Here amongst the ether, as it were.
The current paradigm of scarcity propagation is being replaced with a paradigm of abundance distribution, and the nation-state is terminally Ill. Nikolai Tesla was a direct threat to the state. So was Jesus Christ.
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