(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

• a [[list]].
  • #pull [[do]]
• a [[space]].
  • A space to meet.
  • #go https://meet.jit.si/pomodoros

    • A place where I can write down meta/thoughts while I do pomodoros.

      I just got distracted during a pomodoro but caught me in time to still be able to pull something off this round (I think). The first five minutes I planned dinner with my partner (?), essentially forgetting I had set an intention to focus. Then I spent four minutes doing planning for the next few pomodoros, which is productive but not in the spirit of the thing. Now I'll actually do [[the thing]], which in this case is making [[free, fair and alive]] resolve well in [[agora server]].

• an [[algorithm]].
  • [[loop]]
    • [[rest]] think about what you want to do in the next pomodoro or the next few pomodoros, write it down.
      • [[announce]] it if you're doing announcements, but be wary of the risk of announcing: your brain might feel content with having announced and not move on to actually doing it :)
    • [[set a timer]] of the kind you want and reinforce your [[intention]].
      • make a [[commitment]].
      • then [[sit down]] or [[stand]] and [[do]].
      • ([[burn for greater good]])
• as of [[2022-06]] I've been doing more of them. they work, at runtime and for [[planning]].
• doing these on [[2022-08-20]], doing these most days honestly.

[[2022-12-25]]

There are many [[pomodoro logs]], this is just one -- one of many even I keep :)

• [x]

• [x]

• [x]

• [x]

• [x]

• [x]

• [x]

• [x]

• (flow)

[[2022-12-26]]

• (setup, around 11:33)
• [x]
• [x]
• [x]
• (kept in paper form after this, but did around ~17 :))

Pomodoros

• a [[process]].
  • Flancia is the revolution, done [[kindly]].
    • #go https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolution
      • #q a revolution (Latin: revolutio, "a turn around") is a [[fundamental]] and [[relatively sudden]] change in [[political power]] and political organization which occurs [[when the population revolts against the government]], typically due to perceived [[oppression]] (political, social, economic) or political incompetence.
    • #push [[revolutions]]
    • #pull [[Murray Bookchin]] would likely be my default delegate for matters pertaining to [[revolution]] in a [[liquid democracy]] system.
    • Given that he's dead, when in doubt, I ask [[@neil]] and the [[Agora]] :)
    • My current personal proposal is the [[Flancian Revolution]], which is designed to be constructive and optional and is based on the patterns of [[Federation]], [[Commoning]] and [[Dual Power]].
    • Flancia is meant to be a revolution guided by [[loving kindness]].
      • In Flancia there is no [[poverty]].
      • In Flancia there is no [[homelessness]].
      • In Flancia there is no [[violence]].
      • In [[Flancia]] we will [[meet]]!
    • In Flancia we slayed [[Moloch]], and by that I mean we [[disentangled]] from them.
      • I am a [[Flancian]] and this [[Agora]] contains my [[manifesto]].
    • [[Aristotle]] describes two types of [[political revolution]]:
      • [[Complete change]] from one [[constitution]] to another
      • [[Modification]] of an existing constitution.
  • In Flancia the [[internet]] yielded a thriving [[knowledge commons]] for humanity through the ages.
    • I like to think of [[Flancia]] as the world as it could be, improved through a series of [[peaceful]] revolutions.
    • #push [[Protopoi]] is the [[space]] of composable [[incremental improvements]]; rational and well meaning changes that can be chained or composed for the betterment of the world.
      • We can [[explore]] this space together, and to do so it is that I set out to build an [[Agora]].
  • [[twitter]]
    • https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1368252143338192898
    • https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1462091524985045002
    • #pull [[buddhism]] [[satyagraha]] [[non violence]] [[effective altruism]]
    • #pull [[peter singer]] [[frederick engels]] [[karl marx]] [[hans widmer]] [[murray bookchin]]
  • #pull [[free, fair and alive]] [[patterns]]

• [[Military]] goes over to a rebellion when two conditions are met. collapsed:: true
• How can you make [[people]] think a [[majority]] [[believe]] in Something? How can you make it seem like your revolution is inevitable?
• [[Structural]] [[revolution]] model:
  • 1. [[Fiscal]] illiquidity, [[officials]] and [[enforcers]] are not paid.
    2. Intra-[[elite]] conflict between [[state]] officials and those who [[finance]] the state- [[economic]] elite vs [[ruling]] [[officials]].
    3. [[Mass]] [[movement]] of dissidents- a movement claims a [[solution]] to the [[deadlock]] and fills the vacuum. The solution doesn't have to be real- it is often [[ideology]] used as a unifying [[tactic]]. The revolutionaries have to be able to [[attack]] the deadlock and make the State [[solvent]] again.

Revolution

the institutional transformation of society by society

– [[Common: On Revolution in the 21st Century]]

I'm on board for a [[social revolution]] in the 21st century. My revolutionary flavour of choice is [[revolutionary socialism]]. [[Eco-socialism]], specifically, as [[to be a 21st century socialist is to be an eco-socialist]]. I am desiring of a revolution that leads to something akin to an [[ecological civilization]].

How to get from here to there?

revolution never occurs just through the behaviour of a particular group, however big or small. It happens because masses of people, many of whom have never considered the matter before, demand change and put themselves at the centre of political events

– [[Revolution in the 21st century - Chris Harman]]

Strategy: I hope that [[prefiguration]], education, agitation, and organisation ([[educate, agitate, organise]]) may lead us to a [[social tipping point]] that tips us towards harmony. I believe you need both some of the spontaneous network and the party form to make this happen. See [[Neither Vertical Nor Horizontal]]. A bit of both [[Climate Mao]] and [[Climate X]] if you will.

Tactics: With revolution there is the thorny question of violence and struggle. [[When bringing change we must minimise violence]]. I hope the minimum = 0 and that [[direct action]], [[civil disobedience]] and enacting positive alternatives in there here and now can suffice. Probably naive. But unlike in [[To Posterity]], I hope that we who wish to lay the foundations of kindness, can ourselves be kind.

Demands: TBC. see e.g. [[Half-Earth Socialism]], [[ecological civilization]].