Buddhism

Effective Altruism

• a [[thing]]
  • a [[movement]] or [[project]]
    • I consider myself part of it.
  • [[go]] www.effectivealtruism.org
  • I [[donate]] [[monthly]] to the [[Global Health and Development Fund]]
  • [[push]] [[do]]
    • [[write]] about the Agora in the [[EA forum]].
    • the [[EA Forums]] themselves are an [[agora]].

frederick engels

• [[pull]] [[friedrich engels]]

• a [[book]].
  • [[david bollier]] [[silke helfrich]]
  • on [[commons]]
    • recommended by [[neil]]
    • a [[banger]] :)
  • [[go]] https://www.freefairandalive.org/read-it
  • [[es]] [[libres, dignos, vivos]]

• [[book]]
  • [[author]] [[david bollier]] [[silke helfrich]]

Free, Fair and Alive

URL : https:://freefairandalive.org

Subtitle : The insurgent power of the [[commons]]

Authors : [[David Bollier]] / [[Silke Helfrich]]

I read it in 2021. I loved it.

Partly as it draws threads between topics of great interest to me - commons, complexity science, commons-public partnerships, digital commons, patterns. It even ticked my wiki box.

It's also a very practical manifesto for political / social organising. I really like this about it. Its feel like a guidebook to (one form of) [[Anti-capitalism]].

As they say:

this book is not just to illuminate new patterns of thought and feeling, but to offer a guide to action.

It also full of real-world examples of commoning already in action.

Since reading it I'm dipping back in to it and looking at the specific patterns and ideas in more depth. The pattern-style they use makes it really usable. See [[Triad of Commoning]].

It has three main parts:

• part 1, discussing the commons and commoning and what they are and their insurgent potential.
• part 2, outlining a whole bunch of patterns for commoning that you might use. See [[Triad of Commoning]].
• part 3, about how to grow the Commonsverse and challenge the hegemonic power.

Some sections I particularly liked:

• [[A Platform Designed for Collaboration: Federated Wiki]]
• [[Complexity Science and Commoning]]
• [[The Nested-I and Ubuntu Rationality: The Relational Ontology of the Commons]]

Discussion

How does it relate to Ostrom / Governing the Commons?

Not a reinterpretation - but a shifted orientation, yes. Subtitle of FFA is "the insurgent power of the commons". Ostrom is certainly not insurgent! Somewhat propertarian in her basic framing, akin to 'Austrian' economics (Hayek etc). Whereas FFA is counter-enclosure, counter-extractivism, post-propertarian. Hence common-ING as its pivot, the radical, situated practice, rather than commonS, the co-optable, abstract, political-economic form.

– @mike_hales - https://social.coop/@mike_hales/106280463656699063 pull

How it was written

I found it great to discover that this book was researched and composed using [[FedWiki]].

https://occitanie.social/@yala/107322947574130084 pull

What's the title about?

This is reflected in our title, which describes the foundation, structure, and vision of the commons: Free, Fair and Alive. Any emancipation from the existing system must honor freedom in the widest human sense, not just libertarian economic freedom of the isolated individual. It must put fairness, mutually agreed upon, at the center of any system of provisioning and governance. And it must recognize our existence as living beings on an Earth that is itself alive.

Bit of similarity to [[Doughnut Economics]] there - free and fair is a bit like the social foundation, alive is a bit like the avoidance of planetary overshoot.

Quotes

You will find many quotes from FFA dotted around my wiki. Check out the backlinks.

Unfiled

What we really need today is creative experimentation and the courage to initiate new patterns of action. We need to learn how to identify patterns of cultural life that can bring about change, notwithstanding the immense power of capital.

The new structure can help us envision different sorts of community, social practices, and economic institutions — and above all, a new culture that honors cooperation and sharing.

We came to realize that if we aspire to social and political transformation but try to do so using the language of market economics, state power, and political liberalism, we will fail.

Hans Widmer

• A [[person]].
  • [[writer]] [[anarchist]] [[swiss]].
  • also known as "p.m."
  • [[pull]] [[p.m.]]
  • [[go]] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Widmer pull
  • [[article]]: https://tageswoche.ch/politik/aus-der-agglo-sollten-wir-staedte-machen-sagt-hans-pm-widmer/
  • [[bolo]] http://bolo.cnr.ch/
  • participates in [[kraftwerk 1]]

Hans Widmer

P.M. is the pseudonym of the Swiss author Hans Widmer (born in 1947). Besides writing utopian novels, other literature, theatre performances, and radio plays, P.M. has also been an activist in autonomous and [[eco-socialist]] projects and movements. [[bolo'bolo]] is P.M.’s most wellknown book. Reminiscent of Kroptokin, bolo’bolo outlines how a future grassroots communist society without capital and the state could look. [[Kartoffeln und Computer]] (Potatoes and Computers) is an update of bolo’bolo’s vision written almost thirty years later.

karl marx

• a [[person]]
  • [[philosopher]] [[historial]] [[socialist]] [[revolutionary]]
  • [[wp]] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Marx pull
  • [[pull]] [[marxism]]

Karl Marx

[[capitalism]]’s greatest analyst and critic

– [[Breaking Things at Work]]

Marx was attracted to Hegel's philosophy of history.

Whatever you think of Marx, you can't deny his work has had a profound impact on history - so worth knowing about from this perspective alone.

Liquid Democracy

• In [[Flancia]] they tried liquid democracy.
  • [[go]] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_democracy pull
• In liquid democracy you can choose a [[delegate]]. A delegate is a [[person]] who votes in your place on the ocassions in which you are unable or uninterested to do so.
  • [[experts]] are reasonable delegates.
  • you can [[opt out]] of any vote to yield.
• Which are your thoughts on [[liquid democracy]] and alternate forms of governance?
  • You can leave your thoughts on the public document below.
• If you could change one thing in the world, what would it be?
  • In Flancia all the people's proposals are considered as thoroughly as possible by those in positions of power.
• I believe [[Google]] should adopt the key principles of [[Liquid Democracy]].

liquid democracy

• [[agora proposal platform]]
• use [[uprank]] possibly

Murray Bookchin

• a [[person]]
  • [[go]] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Bookchin pull
  • [[quote]] In the late 1990s, he became disenchanted with what he saw as an increasingly apolitical "lifestylism" of the contemporary [[anarchist]] movement, stopped referring to himself as an anarchist, and founded his own libertarian socialist ideology called [[communalism]], which seeks to reconcile [[Marxist]] and anarchist thought.
  • [[the ecology of freedom]]
    • [[social ecology]]
    • [[institute for social ecology]]
  • [[the third revolution]]
  • [[the next revolution]]
  • influenced the [[alterglobalization movement]]
• a [[person]].
  • (noded them in two different machines, forgetting to commit in one, thought it would be fun to keep this and explore the differences.)
  • [[friend]] (post mortem) [[philosopher]] [[communalist]]
  • [[go]] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Bookchin pull
  • [[quote]] In the late 1990s, he became disenchanted with what he saw as an increasingly apolitical "lifestylism" of the contemporary [[anarchist]] movement, stopped referring to himself as an anarchist, and founded his own libertarian socialist ideology called [[communalism]], which seeks to reconcile [[Marxist]] and anarchist thought.

• [[anarchist]]

Murray Bookchin

I find interesting the tack he took of defining something in between [[Anarchism]] and [[Marxism]]. That appeals to me, part of the whole [[Horizontalism vs verticalism]] thing. Bookchin had chops in both of them so was well-placed for a synthesis I reckon. And I like his municipalist take on things ([[Libertarian municipalism]]) and his ecological concerns ([[Social ecology]]).

I listened to an interview ages back on [[Revolutionary Left Radio]] with his daughter [[Debbie Bookchin]] ([[The Philosophy of Murray Bookchin: An Interview with Debbie Bookchin]]). I remember he sounded like a fun Dad - taking her to the cinema, but waiting outside writing political tracts while she watched the films.

He seems a bit cantankerous.

The only other author I can think of who similarly combines brilliant analysis with bad faith caricatures of his perceived adversaries is Murray Bookchin.

– Center for a Stateless Society » Review: Srnicek and Williams, Inventing the …

His ideas inspired [[Abdullah Öcalan]]. [[Rojava]].

O.G. [[solarpunk]].

[[Communalism]].

Rejecting ecological arguments that blame individual choices, technology, or population growth, Bookchin argues that the ecological crisis is caused by an irrational social system governed by the cancerous logic of capitalism, driven by its competitive grow-or-die imperative and its endless production directed not toward meeting human needs but accumulating profit

– [[The Next Revolution]]

Bookchin’s proposal is by far the most sophisticated radical proposal to deal with the creation and collective use of the [[commons]] across a wide variety of scales

– [[The Next Revolution]]

In the late 1950s, he began to elaborate the importance of environmental degradation as a symptom of deeply entrenched social problems. Bookchin’s book on the subject, [[Our Synthetic Environment]], appeared six months before Rachel Carson’s [[Silent Spring]], while his seminal 1964 pamphlet [[Ecology and Revolutionary Thought]] introduced the concept of [[ecology]] as a political category to the [[New Left]].

– [[The Next Revolution]]

[[ecology]]

[[permaculture]]

[[anarchism]]

[[bookchin]]

[[realm of necessity]]

[[realm of freedom]]

[[struggle of nature and society]]

His favorite word is "Coherence"

[[bookchin quotes]]

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• In [[Flancia]] there is [[no violence]].

patterns

• a [[list]].
  • #push [[map]]
    • #pull [[pattern]]
  • #pull [[a pattern language]] [[free, fair and alive]]
    • #push [[a pattern language]]
      • #1 [[independent regions]]
      • #2 [[the distribution of towns]]
      • #3 [[city country fingers]]
      • #4 [[agricultural valleys]]
      • #5 [[lace of country streets]]
      • #6 [[country towns]]
      • #7 [[the countryside]]
      • [[city]]
        • #8 [[mosaic of subcultures]]
        • [[scattered work]]
        • [[magic of the city]]
        • #11 [[local transport areas]]
      • [[grass roots]]
        • #12[[community of 7000]]
      • [[subculture boundary]]
      • [[identifiable neighborhood]]
      • #15 [[neighborhood boundary]]
    • [[networks]]
      • #16 [[web of public transportation]]
      • [[ring roads]]
      • [[network of learning]]
      • [[web of shopping]]
      • #20 [[mini buses]]
    • [[policy]]
      • #21 [[four story limit]]
      • [[nine per cent parking]]
      • [[parallel roads]]
      • [[sacred sites]]
      • [[access to water]]
      • [[life cycle]]
      • #27 [[men and women]]
    • [[local centers]]
      • #28 [[eccentric nucleus]]
      • [[density rings]]
      • [[activity nodes]]
      • [[promenade]]
      • [[shopping street]]
      • [[night life]]
      • #34 [[interchange]]
    • [[housing clusters]]
      • #35 [[household mix]]
      • [[degrees of publicness]]
      • [[house cluster]]
      • [[row houses]]
      • [[housing hill]]
      • #40 [[old people everywhere]]
    • [[work community]]
      • #41 [[work community]]
      • [[industrial ribbon]]
      • [[university as a marketplace]]
      • [[local town hall]]
      • [[necklace of community projects]]
      • [[market of many shops]]
      • [[health center]]
      • [[housing in between]]
    • [[informal networks]]
      • #49 [[looped local roads]]
      • [[t junctions]]
      • [[green streets]]
      • [[network of paths and cars]]
      • [[main gateways]]
      • [[road crossing]]
      • [[raised walk]]
      • [[bike paths and racks]]
      • #57 [[children in the city]]
    • [[public open land]]
      • #58 [[carnival]]
      • [[quiet backs]]
      • [[accessible green]]
      • [[small public squares]]
      • [[high places]]
      • [[dancing in the street]]
      • [[pools and streams]]
      • [[birth places]]
      • #66 holy ground
    • [[local common land]]
      • #67 [[common land]]
      • [[connected play]]
      • [[public outdoor room]]
      • [[grave sites]]
      • [[still water]]
      • [[local sports]]
      • [[adventure playground]]
      • #74 [[animals]]
    • [[family]]
      • #75 [[the family]]
      • [[house for a small family]]
      • [[house for a couple]]
      • [[house for one person]]
      • #79 [[your own home]]
    • [[workgroups]]
      • #80 [[self governing workshops and offices]]
      • [[small services without red tape]]
      • [[office connections]]
      • [[master and apprentices]]
      • [[teenage society]]
      • [[shopfront schools]]
      • #86 [[children's home]]
    • [[local shops]] and [[gathering places]]
      • #87 [[individually owned shops]]
      • [[street cafe]]
      • [[corner grocery]]
      • [[beer hall]]
      • [[traveler's inn]]
      • #92 [[bus stop]]
      • #93 [[food stands]]
      • #94 [[sleeping in public]]
    • [[buildings]]
      • [[overall arrangement]]
        • #95 [[building complex]]
        • [[number of stories]]
        • [[shielded parking]]
        • [[circulation realms]]
        • [[main building]]
        • [[pedestrian street]]
        • [[building thoroughfare]]
        • [[family of entrances]]
        • #103 [[small parking lots]]
      • [[individual position]]
        • #104 [[site repair]]
        • [[south facing outdoors]]
        • [[positive outdoor space]]
        • [[wings of light]]
        • [[connected buildings]]
        • #109 [[long thin house]]
      • [[yin and yang]]
        • #110 [[main entrance]]
        • [[half hidden garden]]
        • [[entrance transition]]
        • [[car connection]]
        • [[hierarchy of open space]]
        • [[courtyards which live]]
        • [[cascade of roofs]]
        • [[sheltering roof]]
        • #118 [[roof garden]] [[one star]]
      • [[paths and squares]]
        • #119 [[arcades]] [[two star]]
        • [[paths and goals]]
        • [[path shape]]
        • [[building fronts]]
        • [[pedestrian density]]
        • [[activity pockets]]
        • [[stair seats]]
        • #126 [[something roughly in the middle]]
      • [[gradient]]
        • #127 [[intimacy gradient]]
        • [[indoor sunlight]]
        • [[common areas at the heart]] [[two star]]
        • [[entrance room]]
        • [[the flow through rooms]]
        • [[short passages]]
        • [[staircase as a stage]]
        • [[zen view]] read
        • #135 [[tapestry of light and dark]]
      • #wip it goes to 253
    • [[filtered light]]
    • a term used by [[ward cunningham]] to refer to structure in the solution to a problem.
    • #pull [[a pattern language]]

Patterns

patterns resemble DNA, a set of instructions that are underspecified so that they can be adapted to local circumstances. "Does the DNA contain a full description of the organism to which it will give rise?" asks [[Christopher Alexander]]

– [[Free, Fair and Alive]]

Peter Singer

• [[Listen]] to https://twitter.com/lexfridman/status/1280876595092258817 pull
• My [[delegate]] in [[ethics]].
  • I'm a fan of [[the expanding circle]].

• a [[process]].
  • Flancia is the revolution, done [[kindly]].
    • #go https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolution pull
      • #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 pull
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    • #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]].

Satyagraha

• [[go]] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satyagraha pull
  • "holding onto truth, or truth force, is a particular form of nonviolent resistance or civil resistance."
• [[mahatma gandhi]], [[martin luther king]], [[james bevel]], [[nelson mandela]] were practitioners or influenced by it.
• See also: [[dharma]].