Scalable systems are reversible in their size, complexity and technical dependencies.

Fancy tech is worse than useless when people aren't willing and able to do, discuss, design and decide *together*.

The unquestioned assumption that it's okay to subject our neighbors (and wildlife) to the profoundly stupid roar of gas-powered leaf blowers.

Inclusive Organizing isn't about providing "answers"; it's about exploring questions together. It's about prosocial practices to develop healthy responses to our changing challenges. inclusiveorg.net

Bureaucracies serve the (corrupted) interests of powerful people, but they have some good features; e.g. efficient bureaucracies DECENTRALIZE as much as feasible by delegating authority to reasonably-trusted persons operating within the parameters of well-defined roles. We can all learn from that.

I'm not against voter ID but the SAVE Act has been engineered to eradicate democracy. We must block it to pursue reasonable systemic transformations instead of collapsing into chaotic ruins.

In fact, I think that most of the large-scale coordination and collaboration which we need is relatively light/ shallow, and can be efficiently approached via principles 1 and 2 above. Principle 3 only matters in relationships which already deserve our deeply focused attention.

^ I've gradually approached this terribly complex subject for years. I'm feeling good about the broad applicability and efficiency of the guidelines above, although we must uniquely consider each case of active or potential teamwork.

3. The closer the collaboration, the more that ethical alignment matters. (Because the more you help someone to succeed at anything, the more likely you are to help them succeed at everything.)

2. Don't CHOOSE to work with anyone who will clearly hurt the project by association. (clearly hurt= clearly do more harm than good)

1. All community and organizational standards apply to any spaces which collaborators will use, either separately or together.

My latest guiding principles for healthy collaboration and healthy boundaries:

How many people feel like they're getting shit done when they're goofing off but the washing machine is running?

I don't entirely literally believe that but I could relate it to a holographic universe (or multiverse) and, as with many Rumi quotes, it beautifully evokes transcendence of language and individual/ egoic consciousness

Humans could almost universally benefit from a remarkably tiny amount of digital networking technology which we've failed to develop so far because people are too busy trying to build false scarcities in highly-capitalized silos.

I find some posts on culture and technology to be disgustingly elitist. My disgust is a subjective and probably unfair allergic reaction, although it's based on pretty deep differences.

A visual map of open source Inclusive Organizing modules (protocols and templates) for using the components of Modular Organizing Recipe

I finally linked a snapshot of Modular Organizing Diagram to the introduction of Modular Organizing Recipe to help people see how methodical and IMO scalable this evolving recipe is.

Social media is mostly antisocial media.

We're rich in information and poor in techniques for filtering, prioritizing and agreeing on it.

How about if we practice discussing, designing and deciding together instead of wanting AI to do it all for us?

AI has important roles to play, but if you're unwilling to work with other humans, you'll turn into a tool.

gods willing, Fire Horse manifests as the year of "That's what I'm fucking talking about!"

Consent frequently means "I don't like this but I can definitely live with it, as long as my sacrifice is clearly appreciated." However, that doesn't justify coercion per se, and it's tricky at best in relationships with severe power imbalances.

Rep. James Talarico On Confronting Christian Nationalism, And Strange Days In The Texas Legislature YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

The FCC didn't want you to see this. "There is nothing Christian about Christian nationalism. It is the worship of power in the name of Christ. And it is a betrayal of Jesus of Nazareth."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiTJ...

The End of Hoop Jumping On AI, the collapse of the credentialed path, and the terrifying gift of not knowing what you're for

Highly recommended read for every one who isn't a bot. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Lincoln called America the last best hope of Earth, but we may live to look back on it as a stepping stone in the evolution of self-governance at scale.

Our worst social problem could be that people constantly double down on mistakes because they're afraid to be wrong because of blame, shame and punishment because of domination culture.

The nice thing about made-up problems is that they have made-up solutions.

How to Grow Old: Bertrand Russell on What Makes a Fulfilling Life “Make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life.”

Two great quotes here www.themarginalian.org/2018/07/03/h...

btw the Prosocial Activities layer relates to a position which I'm rough-drafting as "the Prosocial Wager": It's better for everyone who isn't ultra-privileged to start from the premise that we can organize prosocially at massive scales; if we're wrong, we can always revert to domination systems.

The alt text for the image above explains a few things: Inclusive organizing patterns and systems with 4d (do, discuss, design and decide) creative spirals and 5 cauldrons of collectivity (life, cosmo-localization, prosocial activities, governed activities, and governance/genetic systems).