11-03-2016, 12:39 PM
Patrick,
Yes, this system can be implemented currently within a local group of like minded people. You could even use it within a single household for tracking chores, and resolving disputes. The primary obstacle is not technical rather than mental. Most people are deeply ingrained in society and government because they have placed a part of their self identification within the larger group. Since the social power structure is STS or at most mixed STS/STO, I recommend that STO individuals withdraw their identification with the current power structure. That is not to say they cease living in the world, but no longer identify with the abstractions and symbols that are used to control. For example, I live in America but I am not an American. I don't pledge allegiance to the flag. I can offer the best service to those I know in real life. Therefore my identity and focus is placed locally. Energy that is wasted (or even harvested by STS) when watching the news, or participating in sham politics can be invested locally in cultivating a community capable of mutual support. There are already many communities very far along in the effort to establish self sufficiency and inter-dependence. My proposal is simply an augmentation of social arrangement to permit them to not fall into the same traps of mutual enslavement and STS contest over power.
Yes, this system can be implemented currently within a local group of like minded people. You could even use it within a single household for tracking chores, and resolving disputes. The primary obstacle is not technical rather than mental. Most people are deeply ingrained in society and government because they have placed a part of their self identification within the larger group. Since the social power structure is STS or at most mixed STS/STO, I recommend that STO individuals withdraw their identification with the current power structure. That is not to say they cease living in the world, but no longer identify with the abstractions and symbols that are used to control. For example, I live in America but I am not an American. I don't pledge allegiance to the flag. I can offer the best service to those I know in real life. Therefore my identity and focus is placed locally. Energy that is wasted (or even harvested by STS) when watching the news, or participating in sham politics can be invested locally in cultivating a community capable of mutual support. There are already many communities very far along in the effort to establish self sufficiency and inter-dependence. My proposal is simply an augmentation of social arrangement to permit them to not fall into the same traps of mutual enslavement and STS contest over power.
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