The coming global civil war is coming between those who want a truly progressive society based on sustainable values of freedom and respect, and those who want to rule through fear, deception, greed, and power.
There are no such things as unbiased facts, disinterested politics, or neutral applications of the law. Human beings are not capable of functioning as discreet abstract systems, impartially acting according to some noble-sounding set of principles. This is a peculiar psychological holdover from the enlightenment era which neither reflects nor embodies the concrete psychological and biosocial realities of our being. There is no ethics apart from actions, no justice apart from circumstances, and no proper decisions can be made in the absence of information. There is a direct correlation between the amount of information available and the quality of decisions based upon it.
Every one of our social systems and institutions are careening towards non-functionality, and need to be reprogrammed. We are burdened by the legacy of structures predicated on poor quality information. We must bring to our broader social structures the same rigour that we have established in the realm of engineering. We need to discern the rules for a healthy civilization and apply them relentlessly.
Education
Law
Business
Government
Transportation
Communication
Economics
We need new models for all of them, new experimental programs for an open-source society.
Violate copyright
Refuse to work
Live as a scrounger
Become a tinkerer/maker
Collect, process, and distribute information
Build the network.
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I very strongly agree with your second paragraph. Human beings, all beings, are not disconnected agents viewing the world from a completely objective point of view. By just existing we are influencing the world we live, the reality that is created and formed moment to moment. Physics suggests this to be the case via quantam mechanics and I cannot wait till we are able to research the interaction of the quantam field as it functions in biological organism.
I'm concerned about a global civil war - I like how you used civil to describe such a war, suggesting an understanding of humanity being a nation. Concerned because of the where the power lays around the world and who controls the most advance miltary systems but also who influences the largest population in the world. I'm not sure if these concerns parallel the actuality though they still arise in my experience.
Your last paragraph reminds me of Daniel Quinns exploration of the idea that we are missing the "rules" that govern a healthy functioning society.
I found your post to be as insightful as some of the post's by pascal.
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