What you would get - eventually - is everything linked to everything else in a true, completely distributed self-organizing system, where power is nowhere but everywhere. No one cell can influence the direction of the whole organisim - the beauty (or ugliness) is the process.

You can't be me, I'm taken

It is the generic function of "clearing" that will be the common denominator that brings us all together, that and the new approach to "property" which gradually brings the Land back into "Common" ownership - NOT state ownership.

We need a new and rational approach to taxation = "Commons" rentals that I have set out recently elsewhere on this site in  turn leading not to a "Redistributive" model but rather a "Pre-distributive" one.

ie everyone would be entitled to a "citizen's income" as of right, derived in fact from two "pooling mecanisms) one in respect of "Commons Rental" and one in respect of Income.

So I see networked  "Community Land Partnerships" as the key building blocks of Society, configured around a generic "transaction engine" and peer to peer "instant monetary messaging" network.

The (consensual) protocol of the CLP would incorporate both revenue-sharing/ tithing and risk sharing through the mutual guarantee of bilateral credit.

No transactional or identity information would be held either by the State or the "Private Sector" but maybe by what is essentially a "Trustee" "Identity Institute".

Modern conservatives engage in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy: the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.Galbraith

adhering to community standards is morally enforced through 'belonging' and a transparent accountability.

if you don't subscribe, you are 'shunned'.

the only way i see this scaling up, is through pooling the watchdog duties across the web, sich as is happening on dkos, where the fbi learned something from a poster that was used to bust abramoff.

we can do it, we just need to smarten up and be vigilant.

all hands on keyboard!

"Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do." Jim Hightower

sure some trees are more powerful, and shade out lesser species, but if you can get yer root in, you have a chance like all the rest.

adapt, evolve or migrate!

"Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do." Jim Hightower

This still knocks me out...

And now he began to see for the first time the unbelievable magnitude of what man, when he gained power to understand and rule the world in terms of dialectic truths, had lost.  He had build empires of scientific capability to manipulate the phenomena  of nature into enormous manifestations of his own dreams of power and wealth-- but for this he had exchanged an empire of understanding of equal magnitude: an understanding of what it is to be part of the world, and not an enemy of it

...it sums up our whole human condition.

Modern conservatives engage in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy: the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.Galbraith

Remember your first mantra in the Music Biz (Oh How Money Makes Me Hum)?  Remember the decades spent in the Studio-of-the-Recording (OK guys!  That was great!  Once more.  And can we all ... at least ... TRY to sing in the same key this time)?  Did you get discouraged when that group you had such high hopes for - The Duds - whose hard hitting rock and roll single I Want to Hold Your Colon only got repeated airtime on a 5 milliwatt station in Outer Mongolia?  (The reports of exploding sheep after that Sidney radio station played it was, I agree, calumny.)  

Not at all!  

You exercised patience and - LO! - it was rewarded.

Soon.  Soon, my young Sauna-Sitter, a comment will be added that shall reward your patience.  It shall be a comment that, in centuries to come, will be regarded as The Comment From Which All Other Comments Are (as they say) Mere Reflection.


No one could have predicted

Lila was an interesting but more difficult read than Zen.  You might think from Zen that he will move in the direction of practice--I thought that--but he doesn't.  Despite the narrative line which again is used to carry the mood, Lila is more wordy and abstract.  It really is metaphysics.  Sven, did you mention PNing yet?  Much PN.  Nonetheless--yes, I mean that--it is full of interesting stuff, including a good deal of backstory to the ideas in Zen.  That alone is fascinating.  

His lucid, depressing, and unflattering account of the Victorians is especially relevant for the US as we more or less return to that unhappy age.  

He includes an account of his meeting with Redford that is a great and funny read, as well as being a meditation on the nature of movies, celebrity, and--though he shies from saying it outright--those deities that draw energy from--and interact most directly with--the human world (the wraith energies of human activity).  

The dates mentioned in the article and his age amazed me:  He was doing everything about a decade too soon ;D

Sadly, the entire current of his thought must now be counted as "underground."  Underground, it continues, and perhaps there will again be springs . . .

The Fates are kind.