Comments on: Ivan Illich and the Commons https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/ivan-illich-and-the-commons/2013/08/25 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Mon, 26 Aug 2013 04:26:29 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.14 By: Chris Baulman (@landrights4all) https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/ivan-illich-and-the-commons/2013/08/25/comment-page-1#comment-546946 Mon, 26 Aug 2013 04:26:29 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=32781#comment-546946 Perhaps the path to enlivenment is still quite unclear. David Bollier seems to hint at his own awareness of this, and he is perhaps even in a process of clarifying both the nature of the obstacles and his hope when he concludes with –

“It is a different species of governance. It decentralizes power and invites participation. People are free to contribute their creativity on a decentralized, horizontal scale. They don’t need to remain supplicants to elites who manage large, expert-driven, hierarchical institutions. They don’t need to remain disengaged consumers or alienated citizens blindly hoping that some charismatic leader or government agency or corporation will solve their problems. They won’t.”

“While Ivan Illich would surely challenge many aspects of the commons movement as insufficiently transformative or failing to embody the right spirit or having retrograde aspects – I think of the Internet ..”.

While the internet is a wonderful platform, it is not a process for governance, decentralised power, participation, or for contributing creativity on a decentralized, horizontal scale.

What is needed is an internet process – an “app” really, so that even the uneducated and unskilled can be empowered “to contribute their creativity on a decentralized, horizontal scale”. I have been focussed on this for a while and believe I may have something to offer. Please see https://www.facebook.com/pages/Village/175083592506774?id=175083592506774&sk=info

Regards
Chris Baulman
@landrights4all

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