Firstly we are in the midst of change and need to try to avoid the inertia of revolution and instead gravitate toward innovation and evolution. To do this we need to formulate structures whereby as many people as possible can be allowed to make meaningful contributions at their level and field of interest/activity.

Thought here was involving the building of meritocratic online open social/cultural enterprise systems. (phew… I know!!!)

The first thing of course is a consciously self-organized alternative to globalisation, built with purpose, namely of pulling up from the trajectory to doom, which a good portion of the world is convinced of at present. In this scenario we are entering a hybrid phase the purpose of which is ‘onward rather than inward, life over death’.

So in this context then there are major issues that need to be addressed through distributed localised and consciously self-organisational means. Each of these, for the most part, will deal with applying dissipatory methods to condensed problems such as: gm crops, western medi-pharma-corp., banking occupation, bogus forms of government, the waste economy etc.
thus effecting localised actions that are self-similar across communities of scale (according to some ratio of the dunbar number perhaps).

We often see in the case of ‘scientific’ terms and theorizations the misleading nature of what is given forth as natural law. ‘Survival of the fittest’ coming to mean the oppression of the weak rather than the success of that which best accords with its environment according to laws of increased dissipation is one example in point. The pinnacle of this maligning of meaning is in the definition of energy as the capacity ‘to do work’(where work was to imply the moving of matter relative to earth’s surface). This is, of course, out-dated, misleading, and in this day and age- down right manipulatory. Take, instead, work as the capacity for action and what have you? You have done away with the value of ‘work’, consumerism, and the idea that one must work to accrue the capital one needs to buy what one desires (but does not need). Instead you move value from these empty desires onto the action of living in all of its forms.

Work is of course necessary, but being defined by the approach in which an action is performed ‘work’ can be surpassed in many ways to become ‘play’ ‘meditation’ ‘excercise’ and so on.

Excuse the tangent but it is somehow important. Now back to the thread of sense running through this…

In building this hybrid society how can we be assured of effective contributions, the reliability of those contributions, their incentivization and rewarded value? Take for instance, in our context of alternative ‘operating system’, the case of an ‘Open Health’ transnational project that creates an online repository of treatment methods for different ailments and conditions according to the plethora of medical systems in use around the world. If I am to utilise the health measures proffered by a form of medicine from some other culture how am I to be assured of my safety, of the reliability of the information I find and so on?

One way is to use the functionality of various softwares that already exist such as the ‘klout’ index and hypothes.is.

Hypothes.is is a way of finding reliable information on the net through peer reviewed annotation (see: http://hypothes.is/) It serves you with an ability to annotate text as you read it, you can also view other peer-appraisals of that which you are reading with the help of a kind of ‘heat-bar’ indicator on the scroll-bar side of the screen.

Using this in tandem with a ‘klout’-type index, which shows your reliability/recognition/influence will give you reliable information as proof-read by people who have sufficient recognition to achieve such authoritative status in a given field.

Thus in these aforementioned areas of project development ( ones that dissipate condensed problems by localising their solutions) payed positions are held by those who are proven most capable by their community’s recognition. These communities exist in scale as mentioned before according to size and ratio of part to whole. A basic group characterised either by location or field accords with, say, the dunbar number, with each having a community elected representative based on recognition, not more than circa 150 of these leaders form the next echelon/whole from which one is selected by virtue of the same recognition system and so on. The incentive to contribute to a particular field of interest is thus in terms of effect, which is characteristic in itself of this world in which people are no longer passive observers but actors who rightly see the world as subject to their effect. This type of development must not be a white-wash, it must be scalable and filterable according to field/recognition and so on- as it must be applicable on both local and global scales.

So this introduces (albeit in reverse) a new aspect of the task at hand. How to achieve this kind of mass content management system? In my thinking, the answer is through people individually. Connection forms a whole comprised of parts and the working parts of social and cultural systems are people and so this is where to start.

One way of looking at the problem is to imagine a registry that creates as it is completed. Take a cultural map of the world over the nation-based appraisal of world population the registry would in effect register people according to their stated cultural heritage and thus provide a map of the world according to people not politics or economics. Second to who people are is what people do and thus the registry takes account of this information also and can provide aggregates of similar positions according to information filtered according to any particular field entry (eg. medicine:tibetan medicine:tibetan pulse reading master- or whatever-basically it is holonic in form and thus ‘easily’ aligned)… (language translation on such a scale can be effected through something like Ana Cristina B. Salomão’s “Teletandem” scaled to accommodate inter-cultural learning exchange and the development of a transnational network of support in the face of national government’s incapability in the face of global hegemonic economic/military-industrial power)

What is being done here is laying the foundation for an ‘accomodation system’…basically a system that makes it easier for people to do what they would naturally do of themselves regardless…and- where what is done is exceptional- create modes of production, education and sustainable value creation and reward structures.

We are looking for a currency based in the finite…I’m with the Human Credit System based on time, one credit per hour per person as a basis of equality to all followed by value creation according to innovation and contribution thereafter. There is a delineation of this system in the second part here:

In effect the quality of a community’s space reflects their personal and collaborational contributions to it on a firmly equal basis, that off time itself. There is no need to go back to gold, especially when the general thrust in all things is toward the intangible…why go for the material again? It is not conducive to the characteristic of the changes…time on the other hand is perfect, finite and yet intangible, we would only waste value fighting over it…perfect.