Comments on: Demise of Totnes Pound won’t Stop this English Town Pushing Back Against Austerity https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/demise-of-totnes-pound-wont-stop-this-english-town-pushing-back-against-austerity/2019/06/29 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Sun, 29 Sep 2019 20:42:43 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 By: Danyl Strype https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/demise-of-totnes-pound-wont-stop-this-english-town-pushing-back-against-austerity/2019/06/29/comment-page-1#comment-1646460 Sun, 29 Sep 2019 20:42:43 +0000 https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=75421#comment-1646460 It would have been useful to have a little bit more information about the events and decisions that led to the Totnes Pound project being closed down, and what can be learned from that groups running similar local currency projects – including those inspired by the Totnes experience.

]]> By: Douglas Jack https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/demise-of-totnes-pound-wont-stop-this-english-town-pushing-back-against-austerity/2019/06/29/comment-page-1#comment-1635486 Sat, 29 Jun 2019 17:14:44 +0000 https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=75421#comment-1635486 I’m aware & involved in Local Currencies since 1975 with such as LETS, then active since 2004. In order to achieve local ‘economy’ (Greek ‘oikos’ = ‘home’ + ‘namein’ = ‘care-&-nurture’) we need to reframe ‘community’ (Latin ‘com’ = ‘together’ + ‘munus’ = ‘gift-or-service’) right down to the cellular level which we already all are generating economy. Better-Business-Bureau are already promoting local ‘business’ money but are disconnected with average citizen/resident energy. BBB don’t acknowledge the central control of ‘exogenous’ (L ‘other-generated’) trickledown oligarchs in our false ‘money’ (Greek ‘mnemosis’ = ‘memory’). In 2004 I presented ‘Indigenous’ (Latin ‘self-generating’) ‘Economy’ to the international Local Currencies in the 21st Century conference at Bard College in upstate New-York.
MULTIHOME-DWELLING-COMPLEXES (the forgotten human fractal)
Given oligarch disconnection from the population, the rest of us can promote local ‘busy-ness’ nests particularly in the Multihome-Dwelling-Complexes (apartment, townhouse & village) where 70% of us live. Governments being institutionally fixated, don’t help organize at the most effective multihome level of community interaction. Rather than focussing upon ‘currency’ flow of goods & services, our starting strength is to ‘CATALOGUE’ our talents, goods (new & 2nd-hand), services, resources, gifts & dreams starting in the Multihomes where we live. The average size of multihomes is 32 dwelling units or ~100 people, exactly the critical-mass, which all humanity’s indigenous ancestors employed in Longhouse, Pueblo, Village & other connected housing. ‘Privacy’ is essential to community, as is ‘proximity’ for ease of collaboration among intimate, caring & familial community partners. ‘Fractal’ implies that ‘multiplier or building-block, where the part-contains-the-whole’, upon which human systems must be based in order to work at every level from the interpersonal to the international level. Present day systems are imposed because they lack fractal integrity.
INTEGRATED INTIMATE FRACTAL COMMUNITY VALUE SYSTEMS
~100 person intergenerational, interdisciplinary, female-male critical-mass, economies-of-scale animated Multihome-Dwelling-Complexes (eg. Longhouse-apartment, Pueblo-townhouse & Kanata-village). String-shell (eg. Cowrie, Wampum, Quipu, Bei etc) time-based equivalency accounting was used in specialized Production-Society-Guilds to record & valorize contributions as: a) Capital (L ‘cap’ = ‘head’ = ‘collective-intelligence’), b) Currency (flow), c) Condolence (social-security), d) Collegial mentored-apprentice educational credit, e) Time-math Communication, f) professional Costume & much more. Such integrated value accounting recognizes all & thereby empowers, enables includes & economically-welcomes all. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/relational-economy

DO-WE-KNOW-WHO-WE-ARE-? is drawn from ancient east African ‘indigenous’ (L ‘self-generating’) economic practice to catalogue our complementary strengths. Cataloguing helps us know about each other’s gifts. Then we can join together as families, extended families, neighbours in our Multihome intergenerational, interdisciplinary, female-male critical-mass, economies of scale & join our strengths together. Solidarity recognition & bringing our truths together in formal council are the human salves which all humanity’s worldwide ‘indigenous’ (Latin ‘self-generating’) ancestors used to collectively heal our broken hearts. ‘Do-we-know-who-we-are-?’ neighbourhood, web-based, open-source, open-data, community-economy software is about bringing ‘economy’ (Greek ‘oikos’ = ‘home’ + ‘namein’ = ‘care-&-nurture’) back to its roots in the collective multihome. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/relational-economy/extending-our-welcome-participatory-multi-home-cohousing
MOTORS OF HUMAN ENERGY
Imagine the complementary range of talents & tendencies available in your own multihome with food-preparers, gardeners, clothes repair & makers, home-repair carpenters, cupboards with unused goods sitting idle, accountants, youth-elder animators, elders as mentors, youth as legs. Let’s start with cataloguing all our strengths for everyone & then accounting for each transaction between individuals & or businesses as credits & debits. ‘Do-we-know-?’ employs an accounting unit called the ‘Mem’ (Greek ‘mnemosis’ = ‘memory’ = ‘money’). Those without the Queen’s money can contribute their talents first & receive money or Mem credits. Present-day social-work & other government programs do ‘needs assessments’, which end up pegging every citizen, patients, students & residents as deficits. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/relational-economy/participatory-accounting
HOW WE GOT TO THE MESS WE’RE IN
Divide, conquer, command & control in England erased our indigenous Celtic Briton memory about our role in humanity’s worldwide universal long 100s of 1000s of years of indigenous’ economic practice? We were institutionalized by Romans & subsequent exogenous invaders, to forget about the Cowrie string-shell time-based equivalency accounting systems used worldwide, or the Production-Society-Guilds in which each specialty including Multihome Domestic labourers organized ownership.

‘DO-WE-KNOW-WHO-WE-ARE-?’ reflects indigenous human resource traditions, in developing software for neighbourhoods to create websites with online 1) Human Resource Catalogues HRC, 2) Resource-mapping & 3) digital web-based accounting in Community, Contribution, Investment & Exchange Systems CCIES. Other Indigene Community web-sections provide tools for implementing ‘self-generating’ economy, right where we live & work. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/structure/9-do-we-know-who-we-are
DIGITAL PRECAUTION
Block-chain digital ‘currencies’ such as ‘Bitcoin’, without local community animation & valuation, are estimated to be achieving over 50% of their transactions in illegal drug, arms, stolen goods, money-laundering etc. Digital currencies are a scam presently employed by such para-governmental organizations as America’s CIA, NSA, Britain’s Mi5, Canada’s CSIS etc. in order to carry out foreign & domestic interference.
Its up to the rest of us to ‘Become-the-change-we-want-to-see-in-the-world’, by thinking & acting locally with intimate resources. Indigenous String-Shell accounting & values along with Production-Society-Guilds, ~100 person Multihomes, Graphic-writing Character continental international written languages, Council-Processes, Vision-quest & Mentored-apprenticeship ‘education’ (L ‘educare’ = ‘to lead forth from within’), Polyculture-Orchards etc were international worldwide systems on every continent & island of the world, before the violence of colonial empire. Empire has never been able to recreate such worldwide human solidarity. http://www.indigenecommunity.info

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