michel on geopolitical anal

michel bauwens on The Geopolitics of Cosmo-Localism (II): How the cosmo-local phygital commons change the world order – The new trinitary world order is East – West – Digital, NOT the ‘West vs the Rest’ (aug 2025) by michel [linked in tweet below]

via tweet [https://x.com/mbauwens/status/1957786164133581220]:

A first reaction to my geopolitical analysis:

@michaelhaupt writes: “A fascinating read, Michel, thank you. I’ve been unable to reconcile the work of Srinivasan’s Network State and Bioregionalism, but I believe you’ve nailed it! A super useful summary, which I’m going to refer to again and again. Good to see mention of the Civium Project too. Amazing how these threads are coming together. Thank you for making it easier to weave together. Incredible sleuthing work!” https://4thgenerationcivilization.substack.com/p/the-geopolitics-of-cosmo-localism-f80 cc @balajis

notes/quotes from skimming (lots of people/ideas i’ve already commented on elsewhere.. just adding the resonating new stuff today):

(michel after talking about jordan on civium project ness et al): My own cosmo-local imagination, which is based on many years of observation on the ground, is that micro-territorial entities with *similar domain-specific activities, say permaculture, would unite trans-locally through the use of common global infrastructure, but also have access to crowdfunded global capital, inventing new forms of ‘entangled’ fractal ownership.

*to me this is key.. and what we could be focusing on .. everything to date we’ve called ‘similar/affinity/et al’ (and there have been tons and tons of initiatives in this realm) has been a grouping ness of whales.. and so it doesn’t last and only perpetuates myth of tragedy and lord/same song et al.. we need a global detox leap so that what brings us together.. is a legit itch-in-the-soul we might have in common.. that day..

the problem is .. for legit detox to happen.. so for legit authenticity (legit itch-in-the-soul) to even be ‘voiced’ we need the thing we’ve not yet tried/seen: the unconditional part of left to own devices ness

in particular..

the key element: getting a person to believe they really can do whatever they want..no strings

the trick: hastening that key element for everyone..in sync

otherwise we just perpetuate the whac-a-mole-ing ness of sea world.. of not-us ness

nothing else matters.. nothing else will work (long term.. for all) until we get that piece.. we can’t have legit attachment if we don’t have legit authenticity.. et al (maté basic needs law)

(section on benjamin on coordination ness et al)

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