Comments on: P2P and the Commons as a Dual Boot strategy (2): Douglas Rushkoff https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/p2p-and-the-commons-as-a-dual-boot-strategy-2-douglas-rushkoff/2012/11/04 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Fri, 07 Dec 2012 19:12:07 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 By: Michel Bauwens https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/p2p-and-the-commons-as-a-dual-boot-strategy-2-douglas-rushkoff/2012/11/04/comment-page-1#comment-494856 Fri, 07 Dec 2012 19:12:07 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=27341#comment-494856 yes of course

]]> By: Basic Income https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/p2p-and-the-commons-as-a-dual-boot-strategy-2-douglas-rushkoff/2012/11/04/comment-page-1#comment-494848 Fri, 07 Dec 2012 04:33:38 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=27341#comment-494848 Is this @rushkoff Douglas Rushkoff, or namesake? Just curious.

]]> By: Tom Crowl https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/p2p-and-the-commons-as-a-dual-boot-strategy-2-douglas-rushkoff/2012/11/04/comment-page-1#comment-493940 Sun, 04 Nov 2012 15:23:19 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=27341#comment-493940 Sorry to be so ‘pieced together’ here but one last point of clarification:

Its the political microtransaction that fundamentally shifts the landscape on the larger scale…

But its the resulting network that empowers on the local level.

Its a lever large enough to move the world.

]]> By: Tom Crowl https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/p2p-and-the-commons-as-a-dual-boot-strategy-2-douglas-rushkoff/2012/11/04/comment-page-1#comment-493939 Sun, 04 Nov 2012 15:05:50 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=27341#comment-493939 I might add that advocating such a neutral network is the smartest practical step that OWS (or the Tea Party for that matter) could take without at the same time taking a partisan or narrow position.

What both OWS and the Tea Party both understand is that LARGE INSTITUTIONS ARE NOT WORKING.

And this problems is ancient, recurring, not connected to ideology… and has never been seriously addressed. Its a function of our biology… not our ideals.

Issues in Scaling Civilization: The Altruism Dilemma
http://culturalengineer.blogspot.com/2012/02/issues-in-scaling-civilization-altruism.html

]]> By: Tom Crowl https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/p2p-and-the-commons-as-a-dual-boot-strategy-2-douglas-rushkoff/2012/11/04/comment-page-1#comment-493938 Sun, 04 Nov 2012 15:00:25 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=27341#comment-493938 There are practical ways to fundamentally change the ability to raise the ‘weight of opinion’ held by the less powerful.

Moreover, the network resulting from catalyzing this ability can encourage localization, promote the individual creator and completely alter the focus of campaign fundraising… while over time affecting the nature of banking and credit themselves (which have much more to do with power concentration than most realize).

Liberate the micro-transaction in political lobbying and make sure the network enabling it is free from the dominance of narrow interests.

This won’t happen by hope… nor ideological arguments of the right or left… but by placing the Commons in a more powerful role than either governments or large corporate and financial interests would prefer.

The irony is that its a capability and a network that even the existing political class will have difficulty opposing.

At least… that’s my opinion.

On Tools for Citizenship: the Neglected Essential
http://culturalengineer.blogspot.com/2012/09/on-tools-for-citizenship-neglected.html

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