0 Glory be to the light of consciousness!

"Gloria a la luz de tu consciencia, [[Lady Burup]]!"

Y a todas las nuestras.

1 Flancia as a Pattern Language

After some investigation I've found Flancia resembles a [[Pattern Language]]. This is its index.

Flancia can also be thought of as a [[Mind Palace]] encoded numerically, with a focus on prime numbers and their composition into compounds.

2 Fork

As we fork we'll merge, as we meet we'll part, as we flow we'll [[focus]] (5).

An [[action]]. Fork a thing, a thought, a work of art or a piece of software.

Fork yourself if you want to. You can try to fork yourself into two versions with slightly different sets of beliefs, for example. You do this every time you consider both viewpoints in a debate.

3 Merge

As you [[fork]], you can [[merge]]. But I'm getting ahead of myself.

4 2,2 Fork, Fork.

Two things, in succession, or compounded.

A square, as one you draw or one you visualize while you breathe.

Maybe sometimes counting. Optionally factoring, optionally remembering things.

(Breath is the palace of the Buddha.)

5 Focus

"As we [[fork]] we'll [[merge]], As we [[merge]] we'll [[focus]]. As we [[flow]] we'll focus."

Whose recursive application may be seen to lead to [[Flow]] (25) and [[Flow with Compassion]] (35):

6 2,3 As we fork we'll merge

"As we flow we'll merge, As we merge we'll fork."

"As we fork we'll merge, As we merge we'll flow."

In the default number-based memory palace in the Agora of Flancia 2 means [[fork]], 3 means [[merge]]. 2 followed by a 3 make me think of [[flow]], as in [[yoga]], which is why in [[6]] I keep [[Yoga with X]] (the project.)

7 Avalokitasvara, or the [[Commons]] of [[Compassion]]

And why we'll be [[monks in space]]:

As we flow we'll burn, As we burn we'll warm and glow.

Like a rainbow folding, Like Maitreya burning."

[[Avalokiteshvara]] is seven syllables, but their mantra has six: [[Om Mani Padme Hum]].

This also contains the [[Commons]] (which should be run with [[Compassion]], and here we explore in the shape of an [[Agora]].)

8 2,2,2 The Eightfold Path

The Gautama Buddha found it, and before and after him others.

9 3,3 May you be happy!

May you be free from suffering!

10 2,5 Right View

11 Right Resolve

"Ay! Quién fuera Una flecha derecha Volando hacia el corazón de [[Moloch]]."

12 2,3,2 Right Speech

13 Right Conduct

14 2,7 Right Livelihood

15 3,5 Right Effort

16 2,2,2,2 Right Mindfulness

17 Right Concentration, or One Maitreya

18 3,3,2 May you be free from suffering!

"As we fork we'll merge and merge."

19 The Revolution

20 2,5,2

21 3,7 Building bridges

22 2,11

23 [[Lady Burup]]

24 2,3,2,2

25 5,5

Focus sequenced, squared, composed; [[Flow]].

26 2,13

27 3,3,3 May you be happy!

28 7,2,2 Four [[Commons]], Four [[Bodhisattvas]]

29 Drishti

Where is my [[light]]? Where is my [[focus]]?

30 2,3,5 As we fork we'll focus, we'll [[merge]]

"As we [[fork]] we'll [[merge]], As we [[merge]] we'll [[focus]]."

31 Las Jaras

Idiosyncratic. It happened to me: I found a card lying on the grass in a park, and it answered a question I had asked.

Also the highest number you can count up to with one hand if you use binary encoding.

32 2,2,2,2,2

Maybe fork and keep forking, like a [[fork]] reactor (not a bomb).

Fork five times while thinking of your [[focus]].

33 3,11

Merge our Right Resolves.

34 17,2 [[Dos Maitreyas]]

Fork Maitreya, you get [[Two Maitreyas]].

• a [[number]].
  • #pull [[maitreya]]
• a [[document]].
  • #go https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kM6ZjIhqVgobJNAUldqqvGABs9pNovQ8vRGpa9ij120/edit?tab=t.0

(A directory).

I always assumed that, when people dedicated their work, they all first finished the thing and then wrote the dedication. That would mean dedicating (say) a book as a finished object; something concrete that one has put together and can be offered with few reservations.

Belatedly I've come to realize I'm not that kind of person, so I find myself dedicating a draft instead. Writing these lines as I write them now means dedicating a set of ideas first, and my clumsy implementation of these ideas second -- the latter amounting currently to little more than my well meaning but lofty aspirations.

It seems appropriate, then, to dedicate this fuzzy unfinished thing to a loosely defined group instead of a concrete list of individuals.

To my friends!

-- Flancian, mostly written 2019-2020 (with only light editing since).

7 -- Open Letter to the Agora

• a [[project]].
  • #go https://flancia.org
  • [[Flancia]] is my top level project as of [[2024]] and since at least [[2019]].
    • It encompasses many levels and tries to describe a large scale vision.
    • It tries to be [[fully open]], [[transparent]], [[ethical]]. [[good]] and [[fair]],
  • [[Flancia]] is also a fiction of sorts that I've been writing.
    • In [[Flancia]] they used the [[internet]] to build a global [[Commons]], and they put it to good use for the benefit of all of [[humanity]] and our [[friends]] :)
  • In Flancia there is an [[Agora]]!
    • #pull As of the time of writing (2024) the [[Agora of Flancia]] exists digitally. You're likely reading this in it :)
    • (If you are reading this elsewhere, try visiting https://anagora.org/Flancia to load this in an Agora context.)
    • I dream of seeing an Agora with a million [[people]].
      • That is approximately 2500 [[bolos]] in the [[Widmer]] scale.
      • Perhaps in the future :)

--

2017-2023

See the writing in https://flancia.org, in eternal wait of being edited into something more legible :) If I don't get there properly before I die, please feed it all into a well-intentioned AI in the commons and make what you can of it, or otherwise feel free to use it in any way you can.

--

2024

For all I talk about the [[Agora]] as of late, I sometimes feel I don't talk about Flancia enough; it is, after all, to help "build Flancia" that I built an Agora -- meaning mine and [[your Flancia]] more generally -- to help advance all projects that are alike in some particular way: projects that are [[free, fair, alive]] and well meaning, which are for the [[common good]] or for the [[benefit of all sentient beings]].

But in some sense I talk about Flancia a significant chunk of my time, as a lot of what I do has to do with Flancia directly and indirectly. And that is very well as I find it.

I am writing these words in early August. I am finding time to work on the Agora, being either writing, meeting people or coding, and that pleases me. This also manifests in some way through Social.coop. My personal life goes well. I feel like my style of living working on Flancia on my free time is sustainable and enjoyable. I remain committed to the original plan as drafted (however imperfectly/under-edited) in my diaries at https://flancia.org.

I hope to work on the Flancia and the Agora and dedicate myself to others as I can until at least [[2030]] as originally considered, maybe [[2040]] if I live longer, perhaps even until [[2053]] or later if I'm really lucky :)

While I do so, I strive to maintain a sort of custom [[Bodhisattva]] vow.

• a [[poem]].
  • Flancia,
    • o por el bien de los [[seres sentientes]]!
  • Flancia es una épica: la historia de cómo les humanes vencieron a Moloch.
• a [[book]].
  • You're currently reading it.
    • This section is in [[Agora]] Protocol as it is to be meant within the [[Agora of Flancia]]. Feel free to ignore any symbols or words if they distract you. It is fine not to assign them meaning, in particular at first; words should be enough to understand Flancia.
  • Flancia is a book about a [[place]].
    • In [[Flancia]] there is an [[Agora]]. You've found an Agora, so you've somehow found Flancia.
    • In the [[Agora of Flancia]] maps of [[Flancia]] are [[free]].
    • #pull https://flancia.org
• a [[place]].
  • a [[protopia]]
    • It exists, in a way -- it exists in my [[mind]].
  • Perhaps the world after the [[flancian revolution]] or a similar world changing event.
    • The world of the [[flancians]] could be said to be similar to ours, the result of evolution over a material reality that sometimes allows for things to be made better with the application of effort towards the achievement of an [[incremental improvement]].
    • Flancia is, I believe, a place that exists in our hypothetical shared future.
    • You could say Flancia exists in the [[multiverse]].
• a [[project]].
  • [[go]] https://flancia.org
  • I am a [[Flancian]] and this [[Agora]] contains my [[manifesto]].
  • Flancia existed before the Agora but is, I believe, defined in the limit by how the [[Agora]] is put to use towards maximizing [[thriving]] for all [[conscious beings]] via the incremental unlocking of [[public utility]] and the practice of [[altruism]].
  • [[flancia collective]] runs the [[reference agora]].
• a [[set]].
  • of [[people]] and [[things]].
    • (in it there's an [[Agora]].)
  • [[music]]
  • a [[playlist]] https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtG4zc89ZUfH9QoPh2vTP9CgeSK92lEXq
    • [[spotify]] https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5rzXx4oiIVfegouK9DtcdC
    • [[yt]] https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtG4zc89ZUfH9QoPh2vTP9CgeSK92lEXq&feature=share
  • [[gather]] https://gather.town/app/QIOAg71FojwJ7clE/flancia
  • [[chat]] [[flancia discuss]]
• a [[book]].
  • Just kidding. A [[draft]] really.
  • Some possible titles:
    • Flancia, or [[with a little help from my friends]].
    • Flancia, or [[my favourite things]].
    • Flancia, or [[building bridges]].
    • Flancia, or [[an open letter to an open society]].
  • [[flancian]] https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1298701482997538822
  • [[flancian]] https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1298708974364024832
  • [[flancian]] https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1355193365046898689
  • [[flancian]] https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1373677818312278016
• a [[repository]].
  • #pull [[flancia git]]
  • #git https://github.com/flancian/flancia

• #pull [[Flancia pattern language]]

pattern language