Hey I really enjoyed the previous IPAK course I did with you. I’m working on new writing prompted by the SEC rule making (public comment until Jan 18) to allow new financial asset class, Natural Asset Companies. This has been in the works since 2021 (and the required ecosystem accounting developed by interminable UN process since 1993 or so). But anyway, looks like it’s on the verge of reality. So for whatever reason coming out of the piles of global framework annexes and so on im compelled to pick up this book again, Gaia: a way of knowing, political implications of the new biology, compiled in ‘87. I know you know those ppl from Santa Fe Institute. Prescient and sounds nice at first that some folks who seem to have some clout recall that the world is alive. But then it gets um... ambivalent when you look at the lifepath I’d say Maurice Strong. So I’m reading Hazel Henderson ‘riding the tiger of change.’ And I thought I’d really like to talk to you if I could. Not sure I can join the next ipak round. I’m going to do Shaun chamberlain’s’surviving the future’ class
I heard about the Natural Asset idea going through. It's all wound-up with new kind of financial system in which there won't be any owners (because capitalism bad) but there will be managers and stakeholders (those who have the power) and those who are controlled and bled. It's the political system described in Orwell's 1984. It's so depressing to think about. I can only say that Henry George was right when he said that natural finite resources and public infrastructure cannot be hoarded or controlled by private interests. That's the difference between good capitalism and bad capitalism.
But what can we do about this while the WHO Treaty (no agreement) is being finalized, and CBDCs are coming, and a cyber psyop is around the corner, and 60% of the population has been poisoned. How do we pick our battles in this game of whack-a-mole?
But in the end, whatever they do on paper, claiming they own this or control that natural resource is just paper. We are many. They are few. They will fail. Somehow we will win.
My friend Bruce Clarke is the Gaia expert. He understands it deeply and worked directly with Lynn Margulis. See his website www.gaian.systems
I feel you on the ‘pick your battles problem.’ Had similar conversation with a friend today. Still, I’ve set off on this, say, 10-day mission to say a piece about this decision re: NACs because I’m compelled by the Spirit. One good way to pick battles. So, *this* hyper-complex dramatic story out of all of them at the moment. I’m working in regen ag and have ‘climate-smart’ $ so that makes this one a bit closer to home for me. Your moles to whack list is a decent one. Godspeed uh... Co-worker (‘comrade’ is funny, ‘sister’ is a bit familiar, ‘friend’ doesn’t really get it)!
CHAT - a revealing name. Indicative of superficiality. Depth, spiritual inner reference - none. And no capacity - obviously - to mercurially use Language. Its offerings of 'poetry' reveal the vacuum at its core. I firmly believe that a tool we can, all of us of whatever age, use to wriggle forth from the Gaza-like tomb of crushing thought and cliched screen concrete, is Language play. Developing love for our words and the expansive use of them. Poetry, the speaking of it, the writing of it, the warm sharing of it, can help us breathe more expansively, and safely sail again through the narrow straits of Silly-ness and Corruption, steadily more impervious to the siren call of Tech Control.
"Harris and Raskin don’t seem to have noticed that virtually all world governments, their side-kick NGOs and Big Industry are already doing all of the above, all of the time. Instead, they worry that you will be fooled and manipulated by AI wielded by domestic baddies in red hats to spend your worthless time online and end up voting for the wrong person, which will hasten climate change. But they have a solution to the problem. First, they will “align technology with humanity’s best interests” and then AI will help us learn to love each other. "
.... and so much more that you said, masterfully illuminates how ridiculous the thinking of these people is.
I'm overdue a post on this topic myself, and you have prompted me to push it a little closer to the top of my list. Meanwhile, I'm very encourage that having put the question 'can a machine be intelligent' to a great many people of all ages and backgrounds during the course of this year, almost all of them say no. At last a major global scam that not many are falling for. (Those few that say yes, shift to no if replace 'intelligent' with 'conscious'.
I'm really with you on the great potential good of making everybody more skeptical of everything. I may comment further when I've had time to re-read and digest more this wonderfully clear and lucid - and in places very funny - analysis.
Thanks for the comment and the share, Michael (whose World in Translation stack is worth reading). Harris and Raksin are very good at propaganda. When you listen to them, they seem nice and concerned about humanity. I think, perhaps, they really believe what they are saying. They sound sincere. That's why I'm a meanie for showing them to be absolutely ridiculous. But I gotta do it.
Maybe the reason why they have left the essentially redundant, unprofitable post offices around the world open, so that the internet can remain rampant and unregulated by constitutional laws?
" You can still use the post offices. You have a choice!"
I used to as well. But in South Africa the entire postal service has ceased to function. There are no deliveries except of government ineptitude, greed and sloth.
I hear corruption is bad there (I'm planning a trip there in the winter). I think all government offices and service agencies should be under the review of cooperative community groups that can fire people who aren't doing their jobs and reward those who are working well. I don't know why government employees became immune to review.
Yes, South Africa suffers from the We Fought For Liberation and Can Therefore Siphon up All the Funds Forever syndrome. Maintenance is a mysterious concept! However, there are ups and pluses to the situation. It is far less able to manage all pervasive surveillance systems. And that muscle invasive injection was not by any means a success story in the same league as in Canada, Britain, Australia and New Zealand.
Right on. Regularton is the only way to enforce humane solutions. It has been an issue since the beginning of the internet and will continue as long as there is profit to be made without consequences for corporate action.
Hey I really enjoyed the previous IPAK course I did with you. I’m working on new writing prompted by the SEC rule making (public comment until Jan 18) to allow new financial asset class, Natural Asset Companies. This has been in the works since 2021 (and the required ecosystem accounting developed by interminable UN process since 1993 or so). But anyway, looks like it’s on the verge of reality. So for whatever reason coming out of the piles of global framework annexes and so on im compelled to pick up this book again, Gaia: a way of knowing, political implications of the new biology, compiled in ‘87. I know you know those ppl from Santa Fe Institute. Prescient and sounds nice at first that some folks who seem to have some clout recall that the world is alive. But then it gets um... ambivalent when you look at the lifepath I’d say Maurice Strong. So I’m reading Hazel Henderson ‘riding the tiger of change.’ And I thought I’d really like to talk to you if I could. Not sure I can join the next ipak round. I’m going to do Shaun chamberlain’s’surviving the future’ class
I heard about the Natural Asset idea going through. It's all wound-up with new kind of financial system in which there won't be any owners (because capitalism bad) but there will be managers and stakeholders (those who have the power) and those who are controlled and bled. It's the political system described in Orwell's 1984. It's so depressing to think about. I can only say that Henry George was right when he said that natural finite resources and public infrastructure cannot be hoarded or controlled by private interests. That's the difference between good capitalism and bad capitalism.
But what can we do about this while the WHO Treaty (no agreement) is being finalized, and CBDCs are coming, and a cyber psyop is around the corner, and 60% of the population has been poisoned. How do we pick our battles in this game of whack-a-mole?
But in the end, whatever they do on paper, claiming they own this or control that natural resource is just paper. We are many. They are few. They will fail. Somehow we will win.
My friend Bruce Clarke is the Gaia expert. He understands it deeply and worked directly with Lynn Margulis. See his website www.gaian.systems
I’ll check out the Bruce Clarke website
I feel you on the ‘pick your battles problem.’ Had similar conversation with a friend today. Still, I’ve set off on this, say, 10-day mission to say a piece about this decision re: NACs because I’m compelled by the Spirit. One good way to pick battles. So, *this* hyper-complex dramatic story out of all of them at the moment. I’m working in regen ag and have ‘climate-smart’ $ so that makes this one a bit closer to home for me. Your moles to whack list is a decent one. Godspeed uh... Co-worker (‘comrade’ is funny, ‘sister’ is a bit familiar, ‘friend’ doesn’t really get it)!
Whack that NAC mole and keep me updated. I'll keep working at overthrowing the Federal Reserve, and such.
CHAT - a revealing name. Indicative of superficiality. Depth, spiritual inner reference - none. And no capacity - obviously - to mercurially use Language. Its offerings of 'poetry' reveal the vacuum at its core. I firmly believe that a tool we can, all of us of whatever age, use to wriggle forth from the Gaza-like tomb of crushing thought and cliched screen concrete, is Language play. Developing love for our words and the expansive use of them. Poetry, the speaking of it, the writing of it, the warm sharing of it, can help us breathe more expansively, and safely sail again through the narrow straits of Silly-ness and Corruption, steadily more impervious to the siren call of Tech Control.
"Its offerings of 'poetry' reveal the vacuum at its core." Fantastic line.
Brilliant.
"Harris and Raskin don’t seem to have noticed that virtually all world governments, their side-kick NGOs and Big Industry are already doing all of the above, all of the time. Instead, they worry that you will be fooled and manipulated by AI wielded by domestic baddies in red hats to spend your worthless time online and end up voting for the wrong person, which will hasten climate change. But they have a solution to the problem. First, they will “align technology with humanity’s best interests” and then AI will help us learn to love each other. "
.... and so much more that you said, masterfully illuminates how ridiculous the thinking of these people is.
I'm overdue a post on this topic myself, and you have prompted me to push it a little closer to the top of my list. Meanwhile, I'm very encourage that having put the question 'can a machine be intelligent' to a great many people of all ages and backgrounds during the course of this year, almost all of them say no. At last a major global scam that not many are falling for. (Those few that say yes, shift to no if replace 'intelligent' with 'conscious'.
I'm really with you on the great potential good of making everybody more skeptical of everything. I may comment further when I've had time to re-read and digest more this wonderfully clear and lucid - and in places very funny - analysis.
Thanks for the comment and the share, Michael (whose World in Translation stack is worth reading). Harris and Raksin are very good at propaganda. When you listen to them, they seem nice and concerned about humanity. I think, perhaps, they really believe what they are saying. They sound sincere. That's why I'm a meanie for showing them to be absolutely ridiculous. But I gotta do it.
Weird they are talking about love in that way. Scares the crap out if me.
Yeah, beware he who speaks with forked tongue.
Maybe the reason why they have left the essentially redundant, unprofitable post offices around the world open, so that the internet can remain rampant and unregulated by constitutional laws?
" You can still use the post offices. You have a choice!"
Great article thankyou!
People, like me, who live in rural areas, love our post offices.
I used to as well. But in South Africa the entire postal service has ceased to function. There are no deliveries except of government ineptitude, greed and sloth.
I hear corruption is bad there (I'm planning a trip there in the winter). I think all government offices and service agencies should be under the review of cooperative community groups that can fire people who aren't doing their jobs and reward those who are working well. I don't know why government employees became immune to review.
Yes, South Africa suffers from the We Fought For Liberation and Can Therefore Siphon up All the Funds Forever syndrome. Maintenance is a mysterious concept! However, there are ups and pluses to the situation. It is far less able to manage all pervasive surveillance systems. And that muscle invasive injection was not by any means a success story in the same league as in Canada, Britain, Australia and New Zealand.
Right on. Regularton is the only way to enforce humane solutions. It has been an issue since the beginning of the internet and will continue as long as there is profit to be made without consequences for corporate action.