Douglas Rushkoff’s canonization by the Church of Life After Shopping
18th May 2011
In traditional American ‘rant’ style, Douglas Rushkoff makes some really important points about the history of the anti-market system known as capitalism. Really entertaining to boot.
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May 19th, 2011 at 5:22 am
Really got a kick out of this… the kind of sermon that needs to be heard!
People have a tough time giving up their paradigms… especially when they’re shared by their neighbors and ‘leaders’…
I’m convinced that short of collapse or violence… that the best chance for facilitating the necessary evolution of that shared mental paradigm… lies in re-enabling some semblance of the kind of unburdened peer-to-peer transaction we once had as hunter-gatherers.
But that in order to achieve the kind of shared participation required to shift the mindset of great numbers… it has to operate within that existing paradigm and not immediately threaten it while it develops… a seed in the belly of the beast.
I believe a general utility Internet Payment System under some form of universal ownership which is neither government, corporate nor traditional non-profit… utilizing the method and possessing the characteristics* I’ve laid out may be that path.
*no added transaction costs; networking of transaction and viable micro-transaction under a self-sustaining model. This is an evolution from the Commons-dedicated Account model which incorporates the same method.