[P2P-F] Fwd: <Coalition> Spanish Revolution and open organising

[Dante-Gabryell Monson]

I excerpt Tiberius from the thread forwarded below :

*" The multitude constructive revolution cannot succeed without a new
economy, in which the production and distribution of value is open and
decentralized. The open enterprise <http://www.sensorica.co/> and alternative
currencies <http://www.metacurrency.org/> are the most important pieces of
this puzzle.  "*
*
*
*" I am busy creating an alternative to the bloody corporation. See
SENSORICA <http://www.sensorica.co/>*
*and Multitude Innovation<https://sites.google.com/site/multitudeinnovation/home/discovery-network>,
follow
development on my Discovery Network
blog<http://discoverynetwork-tibi.blogspot.com/>.
 "*

a few more links shared on this thread of the coalition list , such as

http://www.misa.ws/Welcome.html

<http://www.misa.ws/Welcome.html>and other links, such as this one from the
p2pf blog which was mentionned

http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/constructing-participatory-democracy-in-the-spanishrevolution-camps/2011/05/23

<http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/constructing-participatory-democracy-in-the-spanishrevolution-camps/2011/05/23>

Forwarded conversation
Subject: <Coalition> Spanish Revolution and open organising
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From: *Darren Hill* <mail at vegburner.co.uk>
Date: Sun, May 22, 2011 at 3:20 AM
To: coalition at googlegroups.com


Been enthused by the events in Spain

If you've not been watching you can check my twitter stream for details -

http://twitter.com/#!/Dazinism

I've been struck by the open organisation and thought people here may find
it interesting.

https://n-1.cc/pg/groups/104127/take-the-square-international/

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From: *George Mokray* <gmoke at world.std.com>
Date: Tue, May 24, 2011 at 4:11 AM
To: coalition at googlegroups.com


Been networking with some of the people involved in the Egyptian uprising.
 They are unshakably focused on actions not words.  At a meeting at MIT
tonight, they were looking at how to provide real relief for the poorest of
the poor.  I have talked a little with one student leader and emailed
another about the possibility of using simple solar and Solar IS Civil
Defense tools and tactics to do just that.  It just may be that the
uprisings of the Arab Spring can jump start sustainable development from the
refugee camps and slums on up.

With the addition of Spain to the mix, these uprisings are clearly an
anti-corporate globalism movement and a person-to-person globalism movement.

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From: *Tim Rayner* <tim at timrayner.net>
Date: Tue, May 24, 2011 at 10:03 AM
To: coalition at googlegroups.com
Cc: George Mokray <gmoke at world.std.com>


 Pam Mc shared this link via Skype. Well worth reading. People are swarming
in Spanish.

http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/constructing-participatory-democracy-in-the-spanishrevolution-camps/2011/05/23

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From: *Joe Brewer* <brewer at cognitivepolicyworks.com>
Date: Tue, May 24, 2011 at 5:38 PM
To: coalition at googlegroups.com


I'm playing around with a set of ideas for a blog post about the deeper
patterns driving this global phenomenon... in particular the convergence of
global consciousness among the youth and the powerful tools of open
collaboration that have emerged with the internet, mobile, and social media
revolutions.

The various populist uprisings across the globe in the last seven months can
be seen as isolated or -- if we are to accelerate the pace of change --
described as a cascade of democratic waves that are sweeping across the
globe.  But we'll need institutional structures that can contain them (in
the form of some kind of global federalist system) that preserves open
communication and trust through shared governance.

This is an opportunity for scaling solutions that have been in nascent form
for decades...

Best,

Joe

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From: *George Mokray* <gmoke at world.std.com>
Date: Tue, May 24, 2011 at 5:59 PM
To: coalition at googlegroups.com


Every participant I've heard is very clearly cognizant that these are linked
movements.  Almost all of them have expressed real solidarity with their
brothers and sisters in the Middle East and, to me, implied solidarity with
people kept from social, political, and economic power all around the world.

Notes on the Arab Spring at
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/05/13/975618/-Notes-on-the-Arab-Spring
This was written over a week ago and will give you some of my preliminary
impressions.

I'm not sure that we need institutional structures rather than effective
methodologies of mass connection.

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From: *Joe Brewer* <brewer at cognitivepolicyworks.com>
Date: Tue, May 24, 2011 at 7:40 PM
To: coalition at googlegroups.com


Effective methodologies for mass connection ARE a form of institutional
structure.  The topology of organizations is going through a paradigm shift
and will look very different in the next cycle...

- Joe

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From: *Mark Roest* <marklroest at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, May 24, 2011 at 7:50 PM
To: consuelogriego at gmail.com, Ben de Vries <bendevries1968 at gmail.com>
Cc: Bill Veltrop <billveltrop at comcast.net>, Darren Hill <
mail at vegburner.co.uk>, George Mokray <gmoke at world.std.com>,
coalition at googlegroups.com, Tim Rayner <tim at timrayner.net>, Pamela McLean <
pamela.mclean at dadamac.net>, Joe Brewer <brewer at cognitivepolicyworks.com>


Second of 3 (or 4)

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From: *Mark Roest* <marklroest at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, May 24, 2011 at 7:51 PM
To: consuelogriego at gmail.com, Ben de Vries <bendevries1968 at gmail.com>
Cc: Bill Veltrop <billveltrop at comcast.net>, Darren Hill <
mail at vegburner.co.uk>, George Mokray <gmoke at world.std.com>,
coalition at googlegroups.com, Tim Rayner <tim at timrayner.net>, Pamela McLean <
pamela.mclean at dadamac.net>, Joe Brewer <brewer at cognitivepolicyworks.com>


3rd of 3 or 4


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From: *Mark Roest* <marklroest at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, May 24, 2011 at 7:56 PM
To: consuelogriego at gmail.com, Ben de Vries <bendevries1968 at gmail.com>
Cc: Bill Veltrop <billveltrop at comcast.net>, Darren Hill <
mail at vegburner.co.uk>, George Mokray <gmoke at world.std.com>,
coalition at googlegroups.com, Tim Rayner <tim at timrayner.net>, Pamela McLean <
pamela.mclean at dadamac.net>, Joe Brewer <brewer at cognitivepolicyworks.com>


5th of 3 or 4   :-)

Let's rock and roll!

Mark


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From: *Tiberius Brastaviceanu* <tiberius.brastaviceanu at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, May 24, 2011 at 8:01 PM
To: coalition at googlegroups.com


I see this wave as the political dimension of what I call the multitude
constructive revolution<http://sites.google.com/site/multitude2008/Home/politics/towards-leaderless-social-mass-movements>
.

The global multitude is well enough networked, well enough coordinated, that
it can topple tyranical power structures. BUT the multitude still relies on
the old value system. Once the tyrants are pushed aside, the same power
structure is rebuilt, perhaps with a different flavor, because the multitude
is dependent on the classical ways of producing and exchanging value. For
example, the Libyan oil, the main resource in this country, will still
follow the same routes towards the west, and this highly controlled flow
will exert pressure on the local population to reorganize hierarchically in
order to sustain their oil revenues.

The multitude constructive revolution cannot succeed without a new economy,
in which the production and distribution of value is open and decentralized.
The open enterprise <http://www.sensorica.co> and alternative
currencies<http://www.metacurrency.org/>are the most important pieces
of this puzzle.

*George Mokary*: "provide real relief for the poorest of the poor"
I say we have a great opportunity to implement the new economy
in northern Africa. That means to teach local people how to use the modern
tools of communication and coordination, to use their social skills, and to
form collaborative networks for the production of value and its distribution
on the global market, bypassing classical hierarchical and monopolistic
institutions. Watu Afrika <http://sites.google.com/site/watuafrika/> is only
a draft of this concept.


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From: *Gabriel Quiroz* <gabriel at contingentemty.org>
Date: Tue, May 24, 2011 at 10:15 PM
To: coalition at googlegroups.com
Cc: consuelogriego at gmail.com, Ben de Vries <bendevries1968 at gmail.com>, Bill
Veltrop <billveltrop at comcast.net>, Darren Hill <mail at vegburner.co.uk>,
George Mokray <gmoke at world.std.com>, Tim Rayner <tim at timrayner.net>, Pamela
McLean <pamela.mclean at dadamac.net>, Joe Brewer <
brewer at cognitivepolicyworks.com>


I'm an activist over here in Mexico and I can tell you that Tunisia and
Egypt had a huge morale impact over here, also last year's support for
Wikileaks. The #spanishrevolution is also being closely followed by mexican
activists and here in Monterrey we are actually planning our own camp.

Here are some links I've collected thanks to Darren and other friends. If
anyone else has any good links, thoughts, comments or anything else pass
them around!

If anyone wants to read spanish sites, http://translate.google.com/ is
always a great option, just type the address in the text box and then google
translate will provide you a link where it translates it to your language of
choice.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13466977
http://mexico.cnn.com/mundo/2011/05/21/los-indignados-de-espana-montan-una-improvisada-ciudad-20
http://madrid.tomalaplaza.net/
http://pamplona.tomalaplaza.net/
http://democraciarealya.es/
http://acampadagranada.tomalacalle.net/
http://alt1040.com/2011/05/dudas-spanishrevolution
https://n-1.cc/pg/groups/102780/democraciarealyamlaga/?offset=0

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From: *Joe Brewer* <brewer at cognitivepolicyworks.com>
Date: Wed, May 25, 2011 at 3:05 AM
To: coalition at googlegroups.com


I wrote a blog post about how several global social movements can come
together, partly inspired by this discussion thread.  Here's the url:

http://www.chaoticripple.com/2011/global-convergence-social-movements/

The full text is below... feel free to spread the link love around!
A Global Convergence of Social Movements?In
Collaboration<http://www.chaoticripple.com/category/collaboration/>
, Economic Patterns<http://www.chaoticripple.com/category/economic-patterns/>
, Social Change <http://www.chaoticripple.com/category/social-change/> on *May
24, 2011* at *6:42 pm*

What will the world look like in 2050? 2070? 2100?  It’s impossible to say
for sure, especially since the collective impacts of human civilization have
altered the state of the world at unprecedented scales.  We stand at a
cross-roads with an uncertain future.  And we have important decisions to
make.

In this post, I’d like to suggest a promising path that lies before us.  It
is a road we can travel down if enough of us choose to do so.  Imagine if
the major social movements of the world — *sustainability, global justice,
world federalism, corporation reform, open collaboration, and social
finance *– were to congeal into a new way of being.  There are trends that
suggest this is already happening.  We can help amplify this convergence.
 Or we can suppress it.

<http://www.chaoticripple.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Global-Convergence.jpeg>

I’ve been following all of these movements throughout the last ten years and
see a new economic
paradigm<http://www.chaoticripple.com/2011/open-collaboration-paradigm/>
emerging
that brings them all together.  We can help this process along by
familiarizing ourselves with the various social movements that have been on
the rise for decades:
 The Sustainability Movement

What started out as big game hunters wanting to preserve natural lands grew
into a multi-generational exploration of the relationship between human
communities and the larger ecological systems that we depend on for our
survival.  This movement has been divided into categories like *conservation,
climate change, green urbanism, local foods *and*environmental
justice* throughout
its history.  And now it is all starting to come together in the form of
whole system design for economic and urban planning.
 The Global Justice Movement

As the last century pulled us through two World Wars and a plethora of
regional conflicts, we have learned a great deal about the power of shared
prosperity for lifting people out of poverty, weakening the influence of
fundamentalism, and promoting compassionate responses to situations that
place people in harm’s way.  As new media pathways make us more aware of our
profound interdependence, we are experiencing much greater consciousness
about the social web of life and our moral responsibilities to improve the
quality of life for all people.
 The World Federalism Movement

Increasing sophistication across the global economy has led us to a place
where global-scale governance is necessary for international business and
economic development.  This has taken the forms of regional federalist
systems like the European Union and an explosion of transnational governing
institutions like the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and the
United Nations.  While these institutions remain too weak for addressing
global challenges, they exemplify where we must go in order to make our
global political systems responsive to the threats of regional conflict,
climate change, and poverty.
 The Corporate Reform Movement

It has been clear for some time now that the way we’ve designed publicly
traded corporations is inadequate.  Moving from critique and into the realm
of superior design, we are now seeing new corporate forms created that seek
to balance people, profit, and planet.  These forms go by names like *triple
bottom line companies*, *social enterprises, *and *benefit corporations.* At
the same time it is increasingly the case that corporate brand strategies
require that companies be responsive to the delicate web of values and
shared identity that they have crafted through advanced marketing research
over the last two decades.  The semantics of these relationships have
considerable financial power in the marketplace.  And those companies that
express a legitimate social mission are proving to be more adept at adapting
to the desires of profoundly shifting consumer landscapes.
 The Open Collaboration Movement

An undercurrent of change is pervading all social movements through the
revolutionary changes in information technologies, mobile phones, and social
media platforms on the internet.  For the first time in history, crowds can
self-organize and collaborate to create the largest repository of knowledge
(Wikipedia), reveal large-scale consumer preferences (American Idol), build
superior computer operating systems (Linux), and fund micro-scale projects
(Kickstarter).  The open collaboration movement is a paradigm shift in
economic production that alters the range of possibilities for all of the
other movements.  And it makes possible the convergence we are beginning to
see.
 The Social Finance Movement

A particular example of open collaboration that is poised to transform the
entire global economy is social finance.  Emerging out of the micro-credit
lending concept of Grameen Bank, this new approach to funding brings
together social mission, community organizing, and finance into a
configuration that unleashes the power of money for doing good.  It has
taken the forms of *crowdfunding, social impact investing, strategic
philanthropy, *and*pooled revenue* to discover institutional frameworks that
increase human well-being alongside the exchange of money.

Taken together, these movements represent an emerging system of global
governance, business, and finance.  We can encourage their integration and
accelerate the transition to a new world order — one that is much more
democratic and robust in the face of tremendous global change.  The choice
is ours to make.

I for one am going to do all I can to speed up the process.  Will you?


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From: *Tiberius Brastaviceanu* <tiberius.brastaviceanu at gmail.com>
Date: Wed, May 25, 2011 at 4:22 AM
To: coalition at googlegroups.com


Thanks Joe,
I think we actually don't have this choice, convergence is happening. I
think that what I call the multitude constructive revolution is a
very predictable trend, see my post The Multitude Revolution is a natural,
inevitable process<http://multitudeproject.blogspot.com/2011/02/multitude-revolution-is-natural.html>
.

All these movements you identify in your post are manifestations of
something very fundamental and powerful: the possibility to add our forces
together in a new way, outside of the system (*communication*, *coordination
and collaboration*), + the realization that we actually have
this possibility (*awakening*), + the undeniable desire of humans to escape
control and tyranny (*historical multitude movement = undeniable trend of
emancipation of the masses*), all this multiplied by the global
economical/financial/political crises we are going through, which create a
need for change and shift the attention of the multitude from old processes
to new alternatives.

keep on writing!

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From: *Tiberius Brastaviceanu* <tiberius.brastaviceanu at gmail.com>
Date: Wed, May 25, 2011 at 4:26 AM
To: coalition at googlegroups.com


Forgot something... I am with you Joe! I am busy creating an alternative to
the bloody corporation. See SENSORICA <http://www.sensorica.co>
and Multitude Innovation<https://sites.google.com/site/multitudeinnovation/home/discovery-network>,
follow
development on my Discovery Network
blog<http://discoverynetwork-tibi.blogspot.com/>.


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From: *Joe Brewer* <brewer at cognitivepolicyworks.com>
Date: Wed, May 25, 2011 at 4:54 AM
To: coalition at googlegroups.com


Tiberius,

It's official... I think you rock!!!

;-)

Looking forward to playing together more in the days ahead,

Joe


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From: *paul horan* <paulyesss at gmail.com>
Date: Wed, May 25, 2011 at 5:44 AM
To: coalition at googlegroups.com


Thanks All,


Darren, for getting this conversational ball rolling


George, for connecting the dots on both sides of the Mediterranean and
reminding us whom we should be serving or at lest helping to serve =
"the poorest
of the poor" along w/ these good folks "unshakably focused on actions not
words"


Tim, for sharing Michel Bauwens' take via that link from Pam (powerfully
real, live imagery echoing the wise moral from "The Emperor's New Clothes"
folk tale : )


Joe, for sharing your views and aspirations (& like Tibi says, "keep on
writing!" : )


Mark, for circulating this stuff among more good folks


Tibi, for reminding us of the "important pieces of this puzzle" emerging
from our naturally attractive human values  and guiding the design of of our
evolutionary guidance systems including boldly open economic technologies


Gabriel, for letting us know about the "huge morale impact" these current
activities are generating for you good folks in Mexico


Perhaps some of you'll get a kick out of this =
http://www.nerdnirvana.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/assange-zuckerberg.jpg


>From Love,


with


paul


P. S. = as Michael jokingly shared several weeks ago, "Tibi, for CEO!"

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From: *Mark Roest* <marklroest at gmail.com>
Date: Fri, May 27, 2011 at 9:20 AM
To: coalition at googlegroups.com, David Alan Foster <dalan at me.com>, Sahibou
Oumarou <sahibcisse at yahoo.com>, Consuelo Griego <consuelogriego at gmail.com>


I'm in! I've been on this path since 1966, although for a lot of it, I did
not know the people answers quite yet. Now they are clear, and Joe and
Tiberius, you've collectively nailed the moon-level view!

Mark Roest

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From: *Lion Kimbro* <lionkimbro at gmail.com>
Date: Fri, May 27, 2011 at 10:54 PM
To: coalition at googlegroups.com



  I would add an additional dimension, that is so-far unmentioned:
  The spiritual reality.

  Indeed, in each of the categories listed, there has been an inquiry that
has asked, "*Will it be enough*, to change the outer forms of existence?"

The Sustainability MovementThere is a further category known as *deep
ecology* <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_ecology>.  This movement does
not ask, "How do we manage Salmon as a resource, so that they don't go
extinct and upset our lives," but rather, "How do we know the Salmon as our
brother and sister in life?"  If we could develop the state of consciousness
that can speak publicly and appeal & judge meaningfully from what we
privately know in our hearts, then we would be in another place entirely.

The Global Justice MovementManfred Max
Neef<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manfred_Max_Neef>has rewritten
economy in his book on "Barefoot Economics."  His 5 principles
for the remaking of economic theory -- that (1) the economy is here to serve
the people, not the people to serve the economy, that (2) development is
about people, and not about objects, that (3) growth is not the same as
development, and development does not necessarily require growth, that (4)
no economy is possible, in the absence of ecology, that (5) the economy is a
subsystem of a larger system -- specifically the biosphere (and hence:
permanent growth impossible) -- all rest on one fundamental principle:  That
nothing can be more important than Life.

The World Federalism MovementThe World Federalism Movement is a mirror image
of another movement:  The linking together of neighbors into tribes, and the
assemblies of indigenous cultures.  Extraordinary adventures can be had in
the ether-worlds of governments, NGOs, and activists, but people at home
struggle with their bosses, employees, husbands, and wives.  The Tamerans
are fond of saying, "There can not be peace in the world as long as there is
war in love."  The Arthurian legend can warn us that the private sphere is
not separate from the political sphere.  World powers may federate, but will
the people on the ground, who each live in their own separate household,
with their own separate car, with their own separate X-Box and playstation?
The Federation of Damanhur <http://www.damanhur.org/> and the Tameran
<http://tamera.org/index.html>society suggest otherwise.  Do they federate?
They do <http://gen.ecovillage.org/>.  And they have a vision of
federation<http://tamera.org/index.php?id=91>
.

The Corporate Reform MovementThe triple bottom line has been noted;  And
thank God for that.  But do I hear stirrings of a quadruple bottom
line<http://revolvethis.com/quadruple_bottom_line>?
Are we sims, and as sims, trying to manufacture factories for more happy
simming?  Or are we something more?  How do we align our patterns of work
with the powers of dream?  What does this mean for the development of the
employee who works?  How can the personal connect with the work
environment?  This is another place where the Damanhurians -- champions of *
work* *as a spiritual concept*, where people are known to perform many
different works in their lifetime -- and excellently in each work at that --
may have something extraordinarily valuable to teach us.  The values of art
and creativity in parsimony with industriousness and accomplishment.

The Open Collaboration MovementThe open collaboration movement as
characterized by Free Software and Commons Based Peer Production is
amazing.  I would pair it with the Art of Hosting
<http://www.artofhosting.org/home/>communities, and extraordinary conveners
such as Peggy Hollman <http://peggyholman.com/papers/engaging-emergence/>&
associates.  Open Space Technology
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Space_Technology>opens meaningful
collaboration with extraordinary results.  In my experience, these
techniques are far more powerful when they consciously address the spiritual
and the whole environment of the person.  They weaken, when they just become
about boxing time and "getting-to-know-you" exercises.

The Social Finance MovementI do not have as much to say on this one as I
would like;  But I would like to point to a book:  Momo: the Strange Story
of the Time Thieves, and the Child Who Brought the Stolen Time Back to
Humanity <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Momo_%28novel%29>.  As we come up
with strategies for making use of communications technologies and
micro-fluid transactions to further economize on existing energy, -- may I
suggest rethinking our entire perspective towards what is valuable in the
first place, and how a community allocates?  (If there is even a community
in the first place..!)

Finally, I remember what Dieter Duhm wrote:

"The Change of Inner Structures. Humankind has long believed that it could
overcome societal deficiencies through revolutions and reforms, through
democracy and conferences, through moral appeals and reason. But obviously,
the opposite has occurred. The global war cannot be overcome as long as
humans have not overcome their underlying inner structures and patterns of
thinking. In both cases, there are the same structures of collective human
trauma, originating from thousands of years of war, destruction,
displacement and destroyed love. Collective thinking patterns of fear and
violence are the foundation of human culture today."

It is very similar to something Christopher Eucken wrote in his prediction
of the failure of Communism:  (paraphrasing:)  We have addressed only the
outer conditions of man.  As long as we do not address the interior reality
of the human being, nothing can substantially change.  New worlds can always
be gamed, until we come to the point where we transform *to no longer game*.

Billy Graham makes a similar excellent point in his TED talk, in 1998:
http://www.ted.com/talks/billy_graham_on_technology_faith_and_suffering.html

I do not request that anybody hop on a 2012 bandwagon, or wave around
crystal wands, or sing Kumbayah.  Nor do I believe that the world needs to
become Christian, as Billy Graham would have us do.  These, too, would all,
also, be outer changes.  I do, however, ask discerning readers to pause, and
look deeply at the requirements for inner change in our thinking structures
and motives.  In particular, though there is no point above for me to attach
it to, I would consider what the Tamerans call "The World Power of
Sexuality."

All of the movements listed above, I support;  But I support them as a
secondary power.  The primary power will be that which is living in people's
hearts.  It has always been the primary power, and it can never be any other
way.  Without our intentions, -- if everything is just an accident of
technologies and outer conditions -- then there is no hope, because whatever
beautiful outcome that may have occurred will just be swept away by the next
wave of technology.  Only when hearts align and connect of their own free
choosing can the beautiful world we hope for be accomplished.  Everything
else is so much ecological destruction, because the ecology will be stepped
on if it means stepping on it to get the piece that the guy next to us won't
give us.  (And this again reminds me of: *rivalry*.)  Teilhard, who we would
like to quote, never placed his hope in a global brain, except as a post on
the way to a global heart.  We cannot afford to confuse (what may be
temporary) outcomes with
goals<http://www.ghandchi.com/iranscope/Anthology/mm/sandbox.htm>
.

There, I've said my piece.  I wasn't involved before, and I do not usually
read this mailing list.  It was sheer serendipity that I saw this post.  I
feel like a stranger out of the blue suddenly protesting an otherwise
orderly gathering.  But I feel that what I am saying is genuine, relevant,
and can be appreciated.  Thank you for letting me say my piece.

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From: *Joe Brewer* <brewer at cognitivepolicyworks.com>
Date: Fri, May 27, 2011 at 11:20 PM
To: coalition at googlegroups.com


Hey Lion,

Well said... your insights run deep and are a nice addition to the
conversation thread so far.  What we're seeing emerge can be thought of as a
deepening and broadening of social consciousness through the inherent
intelligence of newly emerging cultural systems.  I find great power in the
idea of compassion becoming embodied in human systems, something that has
not been central up till now.

We can build upon the aspects of human nature that house our empathy by
becoming more intentional about our relationships one to another and
throughout the world.

Lots to unpack here, of course!

Joe

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From: *paul horan* <paulyesss at gmail.com>
Date: Sat, May 28, 2011 at 2:14 AM
To: coalition at googlegroups.com


Thanks Lion!

I deeply appreciate your views and how you've expressed them. Much obliged
for the various links.

If Michael Marien used "infoglut" to describe conditions nearly 20 years
ago, I wonder what term he'd use for today ...

YESSS, let's carefully turn our interior lives inside out and boldly
liberate our most heartfelt aspirations!

paul

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From: *Mark Roest* <marklroest at gmail.com>
Date: Sat, May 28, 2011 at 6:35 AM
To: coalition at googlegroups.com
Cc: Bill Veltrop <billveltrop at comcast.net>, Consuelo Griego <
consuelogriego at gmail.com>


Hello Lion,

Well Come! You have written well and boldly. Let's concept-map these, so we
can share how they relate to each other, with people who have not yet
thought them through.

I would suggest that you check out the Stanford Medical School's CCARES
program, developed with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and others who study in
his tradition. It became a curriculum for encouraging compassion and
altruism that has so far been deployed to over 2000 schools in the U.S.!

It will fit well with your thoughts. Also, check out the Monterey Institute
for Social  Architecture <www.*misa*.ws/> and its regional transformation
program. I will attempt to bridge between their work, CotW, and the next
spiral of entrepreneurship.

Regards,

Mark Roest
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