Upcoming social dlimena, true sharing

[rva_jeremy]

...You know, an honest world would be very very unusual to Humans.  Do you wonder if humanity is ready and mature enough to handle 'the honest truth' of 4D reality?

Absolutely!  Whatever else you might say about the therapeutic nature of modern culture, our society recognizes that problems exist and that many are created and/or exacerbated by marginalization, stigma, and silencing.  I think most people know we can't sweep our social and cultural problems under the rug anymore.  I don't think there's really any deep issues that one is prohibited from discussing these days.

The problem as I see it is that we haven't reached the point of folks taking personal responsibility for the way their behavior creates or reinforces the wider systemic anomaly--because they still think their identity as individuals is completely separate from the whole.  We still want to address things like feminism or environmentalism through movements that call upon inherently conservative authorities to change.  This is a way of continuing to place the onus on constituted, centralized authorities that have led us to here in the first place.

So people still want to hide in the anonymous crowd, but they're finding ways of bending the traditional concepts of identity that allow for more spontaneous, swarm-like patterns of organization to emerge. We're still early in the networked phase of the information age. As time goes on and the privacy battle deepens, I think people will see that they actually have much more to gain by being open (that doesn't mean surveillance or spying of any kind is acceptable; part of becoming more open entails being able to address problems that were formerly seen as us-vs-them before, the kinds that require things like mass surveillance to protect against). They'll also see, I believe, that their part in the whole is more important than they've ever realized, and that everybody else's role is equally crucial, and we all have more to gain through trust than defense.

We need to take the next step towards social memory and start networking on a entity-to-entity basis in spontaneous swarms of action that can't possibly be centrally coordinated.  The internet has shown that it's possible and powerful, but it's unwieldy without individuals taking more responsibility for their conduct and how they participate.  That's the big leap that I feel we are in the process of making. My prediction is you're going to see a great deal of political and social chaos that will impress upon individuals just how much responsibility they must take to pull our civilization out of its tailspin.  So it's going to suck, but it will teach us about those competencies we are honing for higher-density experiences.  Just my 2 cents.