Comments on: A ‘crisis of bigness’ https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/a-crisis-of-bigness/2016/08/03 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Thu, 04 Aug 2016 09:27:07 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 By: Michel Bauwens https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/a-crisis-of-bigness/2016/08/03/comment-page-1#comment-1577465 Thu, 04 Aug 2016 09:27:07 +0000 https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=58556#comment-1577465 fully agree Steven, p2p self-organization is no substitute for civic power, however, I would not restrict civic power to the national level

]]> By: Steven Palmer https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/a-crisis-of-bigness/2016/08/03/comment-page-1#comment-1577463 Wed, 03 Aug 2016 15:07:32 +0000 https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=58556#comment-1577463 The book created the nation and the individual, electricity decentralizes those, and with it the public. So I’m not so much worried about weakening the power of nations, as I am about finding ways to strengthen collective power and individual rights. So I don’t think we can afford to be power-shy, as Nietzsche and Martin Luther King Jr said, that is a mistake, one private power systems feed upon. We must learn to love power, or to put it another way, be conscious of our natural will to power in accordance with love. https://youtu.be/U0uEVTh0ios

So the question becomes, how can individuals of diffuse personal identity collectivise and augment their power minus a public?.. while P2P infrastructure provides critical decentralisation to enable collaboration, and P2P systems and commons allow them to come together and collectivise somewhat, this coming together is no substitute for the energy, agility, responsibility, responsiveness and ability to focus that national civic identity once had. I fear its closer to the free market atomisation that enables oppression and control.

In a nutshell, we must create collective civic power rather than just destroy it. We should not be afraid to democratically re-centralize and embrace tribal institutions as necessary guile and muscle for protecting and empowering commons and people against both government and its sanctioned bandits. Just some thoughts, would be happy to know your thoughts.

]]> By: David de Ugarte https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/a-crisis-of-bigness/2016/08/03/comment-page-1#comment-1577461 Wed, 03 Aug 2016 14:46:24 +0000 https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=58556#comment-1577461 A more dynamic aproach to the limits of scale in organizations and its role in the birth of IT was provided by Boulding

https://english.lasindias.com/a-history-of-abundance

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