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September 25 2011
Global Dashboard -- What is resilience? [Three-dimensional (3D) wellbeing]
'...wellbeing is a dynamic process with #material (what people have), #relational (what people are able to do) and #subjective (how people feel) dimensions. These dimensions are interlinked, co-evolving and fluid. The review is largely an individual/household level analysis but potentially could be applied to community/country-level resilience too. #Material dimension: ...households suffer asset loss; people’s health deteriorates; families go hungry. And attempts to minimise vulnerability in the present can have material consequences in the longer term... #Relational dimension: Social networks are important in enabling migration towards areas of relative safety and opportunity, even when restrictive policies are in place to limit movement. #Subjective dimension: The way in which an individual feels vulnerable is ultimately shaped by the culture and environment in which they grew up, by their position in society, by gender, and by a whole other range of contextually specific factors.'July 24 2011
The Daily Bell -- Edwin Vieira, Jr. on the Power Elite, the Police State and Opposing the Authoritarian Trend
'Edwin Vieira, Jr: To call these actions "conspiracy" may or may not be correct, depending on whether the ends envisioned or the means employed are illegal or immoral. But to deny that they are concerted actions of particular people, intentionally directed to some specific goals believed by those people to be beneficial to themselves, and that they are usually more successful, because they are concerted, than similar actions by isolated individuals, is ridiculous. Sometimes these groups attain so much economic, political, or military power or influence that, for a time, they "direct" (or seem to "direct") a society's course, or important aspects of it. ... But we must remember that competition always develops among existing groups, causes some old groups to disappear, and stimulates the formation of new groups. So we might say that there is "sporadic direction", or "intermittent direction", and certainly "competition in direction", but not "permanent direction" by any one group.'July 07 2011
Socionomics Institute -- Sociometrics: Applying Socionomic Causality to Social Forecasting
'Social action is the eventual result of social mood change, not the cause of social mood change. Cautious businessmen cause recession. A happy population makes leaders appear talented. Depressed and fearful people are susceptible to epidemics. Increasingly optimistic people make the stock market rise. Outraged people seek out scandals. A desire to speculate fosters the availability of derivatives. Fearful and angry people make war. People who want to smile choose happy music. Nervous people test nuclear bombs. -- A Temporal Continuum of Socionomic Response: Socionomic actions fall along an open-ended continuum of delay following the initial impetus from social mood, from immediate (e.g. stock market trends) through intermediate (e.g. styles of popular entertainment) to eventual (e.g. climates of peace and war). This continuum makes earlier sociometers leading indicators of later ones, which is one source of their utility. ...there is no leading indicator of social mood itself.'June 09 2011
Ribbonfarm -- A Brief History of the Corporation: 1600 to 2100
'...energy and ideas could be used to shrink autonomously-owned individual time and grow a space of corporate-owned time, to be divided between production and consumption. Two phrases were invented to name the phenomenon: productivity meant shrinking autonomously-owned time. Increased standard of living through time-saving devices became code for the fact that the “freed up” time through “labor saving” devices was actually the de facto property of corporations. It was a Faustian bargain. Many people misunderstood the fundamental nature of Schumpeterian growth as being fueled by ideas rather than time. Ideas fueled by energy can free up time which can then partly be used to create more ideas to free up more time. It is a positive feedback cycle, but with a limit. The fundamental scarce resource is time. The point isn’t that we are running out of attention. We are running out of high-energy-concentration pockets of easily mined fuel. Each new pocket of attention is harder to find...'April 30 2011
Database of the Self in Hyperconnectivity
'Database of the Self in Hyperconnectivity. In networked space, we become nodes, shaping & transmitting information in service of the evolutionary development of culture, technology, & consciousness. -- Identity Roles used in the Lifecycle of Memetic Development: #1. Meme Shapers: Enhancer, Connector, Propagator, Amplifier, Assimulator, Stabilizer, Disruptor, Activator, Pathfinder, Facilitator. #2. Observers and Scribes: Spectator, Analyst, Advocator, Archivist, Critic.'March 27 2011
The Daily Bell -- Dr. Hans-Hermann Hoppe on the Impracticality of One-World Government and the Failure of Western-style Democracy
'Hoppe: All states must begin small. That makes it easy for people to run away. Yet states are by nature aggressive, as I have already explained. They can externalize the cost of aggression onto others, i.e., hapless tax-payers. They don't like to see productive people run away and try to capture them by expanding their territory. Empire building also bears the seeds of its own destruction. The closer a state comes to the ultimate goal of world domination and one-world government, the less reason is there to maintain its internal liberalism and do instead what all states are inclined to do anyway, i.e., to crack down and increase their exploitation of whatever productive people are still left. Consequently, with no additional tributaries available and domestic productivity stagnating or falling, the Empire's internal policies of bread and circuses can no longer be maintained. Economic crisis hits, and an impending economic meltdown will stimulate decentralizing tendencies...'March 01 2011
Direct Reference -- The Display Aspect of Social Functionality
'...social functionality operate within a space defined by the following three dimensions. #Knowledge: We use this stuff to learn. Specifically, we use it to learn from each other. For example, user reviews or Wikipedia. #Connection: We use this stuff to communicate, bond, meet, define affiliations and dislikes or just hang out where the people are. For example, friending... #Display: We use this stuff to communicate and manage presentations of ourselves, truthfully or not, to others. For example, user profiles or Flickr. No piece of social functionality is all one and none of the others, but they tend to be weighted differently in each case. Display often motivates contributions (and impacts the type of contributions) made via Knowledge and Connection functionality. ...it's crucially important for motivating contribution and can actually stabilize and help self-regulate systems of social functionality. ...the three Display dimensions: Status, Reputation and Esteem – form a continuum.'February 02 2011
Open Letter from ANONYMOUS: Why anonymity is important for ANONYMOUS?
'...any one can contribute just as much as he or she wants and will be peer-reviewed on an equal footing, taking into account nothing else but the information he or she conveys. Any single individual can be weak, faulty, frail and prone to failure. But when information is owned by all of us, and anyone is able to collaborate and improve upon it, then we can tap into the collective brilliance of mankind without worrying about who gets credit. ANONYMOUS also believes ensuring a minimal degree of anonymity is the only way to safeguard an organization from having a leader / a group of leaders, and the personal cultus which usually ensues from this. ANONYMOUS is exactly designed to be completely transparent. Anybody can join and look at what we are doing, contribute, or get involved to the extent which he or she chooses. This in fact makes it impossible to ‘infiltrate’ us – either you are or you are not ANONYMOUS, there just is no real third option.'January 22 2011
YouTube -- GoogleTechTalks: Tribal Leadership
'Every organization and company is a tribe, or a network of tribes-groups of 20 to 150 people that form naturally, in which everyone knows everyone else, or at least knows of them.' -- The same person displays different stage behaviours in different tribes and contexts. -- #Stage Four (We're great/Triadic): Values (authentic) drive activities/relationships. Spontaneous match-making having assumed shared values. -- Lower stages, shared values can't be assumed. -- #Stage Five (Life is great): A common enemy 'them' takes the form of an abstraction rather than another tribe. Hard to benchmark. Visit don't stay. -- Don't just hire best and brightest else you will stagnate at Stage Three. - #Stage Three (I'm great/Dyadic): Endless cloning/individuation cycles. Values have to be made explicit before attempting match. @44:05 See tribe stage types in social network map. Hub-and-spokes meshed using triadic connections. -- Rhetoric: Shift up stages with deliberative; stabilize with demonstrative.
'Every organization and company is a tribe, or a network of tribes-groups of 20 to 150 people that form naturally, in which everyone knows everyone else, or at least knows of them.' -- The same person displays different stage behaviours in different tribes and contexts. -- #Stage Four (We're great/Triadic): Values (authentic) drive activities/relationships. Spontaneous match-making having assumed shared values. -- Lower stages, shared values can't be assumed. -- #Stage Five (Life is great): A common enemy 'them' takes the form of an abstraction rather than another tribe. Hard to benchmark. Visit don't stay. -- Don't just hire best and brightest else you will stagnate at Stage Three. - #Stage Three (I'm great/Dyadic): Endless cloning/individuation cycles. Values have to be made explicit before attempting match. @44:05 See tribe stage types in social network map. Hub-and-spokes meshed using triadic connections. -- Rhetoric: Shift up stages with deliberative; stabilize with demonstrative.
Project Shrink -- Three Balances For Resilient Groups. Why Every Group Will Collapse.
'The balances are unstable. You can only make it last a little longer. You cannot create it forever. It is temporary. Always. The three balances are: #Diversity [vs] Homogeneity #Open Mind [vs] Closed Mind #Public Information Flow [vs] Private Information Flow (or Transparency [vs] Secretiveness)'September 16 2010
Panarchy: Nested Adaptive Cycles (by Holling)
via: The Autonomatic Earth
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via: The Autonomatic Earth
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Panarchy: Adaptive Cycle Stages (by Holling)
via: The Autonomatic Earth
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via: The Autonomatic Earth
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Panarchy: Adaptive Cycle in Three Dimensions (by Holling)
via: The Autonomatic Earth
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via: The Autonomatic Earth
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August 17 2010
Global Guerrillas -- GLOBAL GUERRILLA: Julian Assange
'Wikileaks uses individual superempowerment -- the ability of one individual to do what it took a large company or government agency to do a couple of decades ago -- to its advantage. In fact, the site is designed as a tool to confer superempowerment to anybody that connects to it. -- "...in a world where leaking is easy, secretive or unjust systems are nonlinearly hit relative to open, just systems." -- Julian's focus appears to be on disrupting/slowing the decision making cycles (OODA loops) of organizational opponents through a "secrecy tax" (a tax that is radically increased through leaks). ...he maintains that any organization unable to respond to environmental changes, due to very slow decision making cycles, will eventually succumb to competitors.'June 13 2010
3-SIDED FOOTBALL RULES
'The key to the game is that it does not foster aggression or competitiveness. ...it is no psycho-sexual drama of the fuckers and fucked - the possibilities are greatly expanded! ...penetration of the defence by two opposing teams imposes upon the defence the task of counterbalancing their disadvantage through sowing the seeds of discord in an alliance which can only be temporary. This will be achieved through exhortation, body language, and an ability to manoeuvre the ball and players into such a position that one opposing team will realise that its interests are better served by breaking off the attack and allying themselves with the defending team. Bearing in mind that such a decision will not necessarily be immediate, a team may well find itself split between two alliances. Such a situation opens them up to the possibility of their enemies uniting, making maximum use of this confusion. 3-sided football is a game of skill, persuasion and psychogeography.'Wikipedia -- Panarchy (Panarchy in systems theory)
'Panarchy is the structure in which systems, including those of nature (e.g., forests) and of humans (e.g., capitalism), as well as combined human-natural systems (e.g., institutions that govern natural resource use such as the Forest Service), are interlinked in continual adaptive cycles of growth, accumulation, restructuring, and renewal. ...the emerging complexity of our social and political structures, composed of many interacting agents, combined with the increasing importance of network forms of organization, enabled by technologies that increase connectivity, propels the world system towards a transformation that culminates in a global political environment that is made up of a diversity of spheres of governance, the whole of which is called panarchy. To clarify, global linkages between individuals and groups create transnational networks consisting of shared norms and goals.'April 03 2010
Shareable -- A Very Short Primer on Resilience
Graphic: Resilience and Adaptive Cycles in Human Natural Systems - The Simplified Panarchy Model: Phases: #Building/Accumulation (Exploitation) #Locked-in (Conservation) #Creative Destruction (Release) #Renewal (Reorganisation)
Panarchy (Systems)
VIA: shareable.net/blog/resilience-primer
VIA: shareable.net/blog/resilience-primer
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