Worldview Roadmap

need to try and assemble some of my political/philosophical World View stuff together into some context... I'm giving up logic/proof for the moment and just trying to mix-master these things to tie them together (hmm, Diagram Of Effects?). Let's call the below "Claims".

Engagement:

• people feel a lack of engagement with politics, their employers, their employees, their society, their neighborhood, etc. (Social Capital)
• even small-scale institutions feel impersonal, incongruent
• a feeling of engagement requires a sense of FeedBack: of being heard, of having effect
• without Meaning and Engagement, people tend to slide into Pathological behavior, including Consumerism and Populism.
  • or is this a period of adjustment from too much Leisure? 2008-05-01-ShirkyCognitiveSurplus

Evolution:

• is a good thing
• isn't finished
• is inevitable
• goes along with Progress, Innovation, Accelerating Change

Freedom:

• all freedom must be based on Individual Freedom and Voluntary Association/transaction
• Individual Freedom requires private Property Rights (though the nature/details of those are fuzzy)
• the combination of the previous points leads to economic activity designed as a Market Economy, though humans don't make every (any?) transaction design on a purely rational/optimizing basis.
  • SmallWorld is a model that may combine Free Market with individual Agency/Freedom. The Network Economy may be a key path.

Maybe I need to write a Pattern Language! :)

• started Fractally Generative Pattern Language Sept'2011.

Or maybe I need to focus on Actionable mentality: Games To Play.

Market Economy, Open Society (Fractally Open Society)

SmallWorld vs BigWorld

Organic, Emergence, Complexity

Two Cultures, New Economy, Red Vs Blue, D And D

UnSchooling

We had a kinda stable understandable Culture (Tribalism). But it's been in increasing flux since the Enlightenment. We've increased Freedom, but at the price of Community. The answer now isn't to go back, but to go forward toward models that help us get Community with Freedom.

• see Whole Lives, Slow World, Reputation Management, Social Capital, Engagement

Conflict among humans is made worse by combining increasing Diversity of Culture while too Tightly Coupled ("shared" political power, schools, etc.).

• Federalism, Non-Interventionism, Network Society, Loosely Coupled Culture, Minimal Compact. Cultural Pluralism