Well, that didn't work....
I tried posting comments and notes from the Chaordic Commons council meeting in Washington, D.C., this weekend to no avail. Here are a few choice notes and phrases from the three days spent in the company of a fascinating bunch of folks:
One of the participants was cursed by her grandmother: "I hope you go to America, a country full of rebels." It seems to have worked out okay.
Oliver Wendell Holmes: "I don't give a fig for the simplicity on this side of complexity, but I'd give my life to see the simplicity on the other side of complexity."
A good question: How do you know you are acting as a global citizen?
Innovation Villages -- where all information is shared (a kind of GPL for all intellectual property and the necessities of life).
"Dynamic socio-economic collaborative non-monetary symphonies" as a model for society.
Tuning the Embodied Mind, so that we better understand how nature works, how we perceive our reality and can make better choices.
Embed reward systems in society to encourage good stuff getting better.
Everyone owns an ever diminishing share of an ever-growing entity. This means that our individual wealth can grow, we can save and reinvest, but everyone is an owner of resources that produce greater returns because people become more engaged with their society. Sounds airy-fairy, right? It's a proven fact that increased home ownership in "bad" neighborhoods quickly turns those neighborhoods into places people want to be.
An anticipatory society -- thinking ahead as a civilization.
Recognizing the creative power of thought requires you embrace both the good (or "light" side) and dark side of our humanity.
Designs for communities and organizations must include many entry points in the forms of new stories that engage people.
Chaordic thinking involves deep democracy, a total rejection of the idea that humans need to be controlled by their governors for their own protection. All structures in society or an organization are distributed and distributive.
There will be, there always have been "new architectures for relationships" emerging throughout history. We're not at the end of history and never will be; we want to know what's next.
New chaords (self-organizing groups) "flock off" from the existing commons.
Posted by Mitch Ratcliffe at November 3, 2002 11:23 PM | TrackBack