michel on trump as cosmo local accelerationist
michel bauwens on more michel on cosmo localism ness
via fb share [https://4thgenerationcivilization.substack.com/p/is-trump-the-unwitting-historical]:
notes/quotes from substack:
it was one of the difficulties to see how this model could replace cheap imported goods, at least in the short term.
But what if most of these goods become more expensive? Furthermore, in a context of global demographic implosion, where labor may become equally expensive!
(I leave open the *question of how automation and AI will affect these trends, but I do not believe in full automation. I believe in the **need for a lot of labor in the future, especially in the context of aging populations and the need for regenerative healing of the damage to the planet.)
*this is the key we keep missing.. the thing we’ve not yet tried/seen: the unconditional part of left to own devices ness.. which we need tech w/o judgment for.. (the thing tech can do that we can’t seem to) ie: tech as nonjudgmental expo labeling
**to me this is a huge red flag michel.. ie: takes a lot of work ness is a sign that we’re not trying/seeing that unconditional part.. we need to let go (as long as it’s set up truly for everyone) in order to see the dance dance
That, my friends, is why I believe that Trump *might indeed be an ‘accelerationist’ for the cosmo-local opportunities.
just like to (virus) leap is/was a great opp.. nothing will change if still any form of m\a\p
The very disruption that he responds to and intensifies, and the unlikely realization of these goals, are strengthening the need for cosmo-local alternatives.
again.. it’s not the cosmo local ness.. (or could say you’re not going cosmo local enough).. it’s the unconditional part of left to own devices ness (cosmo local to the legit max)
Yes, the BRICS alliance and its state-centric para-global trade is an alternative to Trump’s protectionism, but it has its own difficulties, and so in a context of disruption of global trade, *it will force a lot of local populations to rethink where their basic survival goods come from. It is from this logic that I believe the pressure for a cosmo-local transformation will increase and accelerate in the coming two decades.
*need life over survival ness
This is our longish part two. It’s a formal explanation of the logic of the Cosmo-Local alternative, interpreted as the possibility of a alternative way to organize human civilization at this particular stage of the history of civilization.
note going to be legit alt (because we’ve already tried a version of all the part\ial ness) until it’s sans any form of m\a\p.. legit freedom will only happen if it’s all of us.. and in order to be all of us.. has to be sans any form of measuring, accounting, people telling other people what to do
Part Two: Explaining the logic of the Cosmo-Local alternative
cosmo local ness.. michel on cosmo localism
A cosmo-local approach has obvious advantages in this context:
– Relocalizing production saves a sizeable amount of matter and energy
but not enough.. what the world needs most is the energy of 8b alive people
humanity needs a leap.. to get back/to the simultaneous spontaneity .. simultaneous fittingness.. everyone in sync.. of an undisturbed ecosystem
‘in undisturbed ecosystems ..the average individual, species, or population, left to its own devices, behaves in ways that serve and stabilize the whole..’ –Dana Meadows
‘in undisturbed ecosystem ..the avg individual.. left to its own devices.. behaves in ways that serve/stabilize the whole’ –dana meadows
we keep disturbing the ecosystem because we can’t seem to let go enough to see/try the unconditional part of left to own devices ness
– Production on demand can eliminate the huge impetus to create artificial needs and desires
what we need to make the artificial needs/desires irrelevant (eliminate) is a global detox leap.. we’ll never grok garden-enough until we restore/uncover what is already on each heart
– If we add open source knowledge, this means that any innovation anywhere in the common network, is instantly available to every node in the network
again.. makes no diff.. until we have global detox leap/re\set.. hari rat park law et al
– In addition, adding mutualizing forms of governance and ownership, can also have extraordinary effects on the amount of needed energy and materials. For example, in the context of shared transport, one shared car can replace 9 to 13 private cars, without any loss of mobility. A ‘factor 20’ movement can be imagined which aims to reduce energy usage by 95%, coupled with significant savings in the use of materials. This movement is already active in various European cities.
oooof.. part of the perpetuating ness.. these are cancerous distractions.. not getting to the root of problem
The current techno-logical conditions make such a shift eminently imaginable, and technically feasible, although there are still huge social and political obstacles in the way of such a shift.
the obstacle in the way: there’s a legit use of tech (nonjudgmental exponential labeling) to facil the seeming chaos of a global detox leap/dance.. the unconditional part of left-to-own-devices ness.. for (blank)’s sake.. and we’re missing it
ie: whatever for a year.. a legit sabbatical ish transition
On the positive side of the ledger:
· Open source technology, now responsible for 80% of all used software, in the form of free software, shared knowledge, and open designs, creates the capacity to share knowledge and experience over networks, rapid collective learning, and accelerated innovation
makes no diff if still not trying legit use of tech ie: nonjudgmental expo labeling.. we need tech to augmenting interconnectedness over everything else
· Web3 and crypto have created the capacity to fund shared infrastructures in open eco-systems, through processes such as public goods funding; other advances in funding make it possible to move towards bioregional regenerative funding ecosystems
if still holding on to funding devices.. will be same song.. ie: 10-day-care-center\ness et al
· Maker technology, including advances in 3D printing, make it possible to move towards distributed manufacturing, using a ‘on demand’ logic of production
makes no diff (rather.. cancerous distraction) until we undo hierarchical listening as global detox so we can org around legit needs
· Advances in regenerative practices, such as the circular economy, biomimicry, biodegradable materials, make more sustainable production realistic. This includes new paradigms of productive organization, such as the ‘mycelium’ paradigm which has a certain popularity in the Web3 movement.
all part\ial ness.. so cancerous distractions (ellen macarthur foundation – circular economy.. jordan on web3.. et al)
org we need: org around legit needs
· The blockchain, as a universal ledger, creates a vast capacity for translocal coordination, and creates a new model of ‘organized networks based on common infrastructure’. This is a new form of post-corporate organization that functions as a meta-container that can integrate market transactions, contracts and cooperation with public authorities, and a vast amount of permissionless contributions.
need blockchain (or whatever) .. for nonjudgmental expo labeling.. otherwise still coordinating whales in sea world
o The ‘Nowheres’: these are nomads that are seeking the best options amongst locales, bound to their own agendas only, and arbitraging between nation-states and places.
not ‘bound to own agendas’ if still between anything.. if still in sea world.. need hari rat park law.. otherwise still perpetuating survival triage et al
o The ‘open source’ contributors, are all those that contribute, in one way or another, to the shared knowledge necessary for the productive project to succeed
intellectness as cancerous distraction
In this context, the cosmo-local option is not focused neither on a belief in the total self-regulation of market forces (including in the form of multistakeholder governance alliances as proposed by the WEF ideology), nor just a neo-sovereignist restoration of the inter-nation state system, but on something novel: the creation of a new type of commons-based regulatory mechanism that can operate on a global level.
not legit novel if not trying/seeing the unconditional part of left to own devices ness
· On the local level we have the existence of allied local productive actors which can be organized around specific functional domains of activity (say the various provisioning systems such as food, housing, transportation, … ), or perhaps, alliances of complementary local production initiatives, which may seek transnational support and strength, but most importantly access to commons-compatible forms of translocal capital.
again.. this is just perpetuating survival triage.. need to try ie: a sabbatical ish transition
It is important to recap what Web3 has already brought to the table in this context:
· A capacity to globally coordinate human labor and fund it
rather.. to coord whale behavior
· A universal ledger which can create open ecosystems for non-local coordination, with new accounting systems for contributory labor, 3D systems flow, and thermo-dynamic flow
again.. what we need is ledger/tech/whatever as nonjudgmental expo labeling.. a way/means sans any form of m\a\p
· Anti-oligarchic, ‘timocratic’ coordination and *decision-making mechanisms, such as quadratic voting, and other new capacities to align incentives between various stakeholders. In Web3, both capital and labor, and other productive factors and forces, can be interpreted and treated as contributions to a **common project.
*ooooof.. quadratic voting funding et al
how we gather in a space is huge.. need to try spaces of permission where people have nothing to prove to facil curiosity over decision making.. because the finite set of choices of decision making is unmooring us.. keeping us from us..
**perhaps as common project .. ie: imagine if we listened to the itch-in-8b-souls 1st thing everyday & used that data to connect us (tech as it could be.. ai as augmenting interconnectedness)
the thing we’ve not yet tried/seen: the unconditional part of left to own devices ness
All these techno-social trends are very much underway already.
yup.. perpetuating survival triage
Review of the obstacles
There are however, also serious obstacles:
To put it bluntly, Web3 and the crypto economy is still largely an ‘exit’ play for financial and coding elites, practicing the arbitrage of nation-states, but without much connections to local communities and resilient production; Similarly, local communities engaged in relocalized and regenerative production are not in sync with the mutual coordination capacities developed in the crypto/web3 context.
On the one hand, we have a thriving and well-funded field of Web3 technologies, unconnected and unrelated to actual physical production; on the other hand, we have an explosion of underfunded local production.
We should also add the critique here of current funding mechanisms:
we need to let go of them.. not keep critique-ing.. reforming.. and thus perpetuating them
that’s not getting at root of problem
legit freedom will only happen if it’s all of us.. and in order to be all of us.. has to be sans any form of measuring, accounting, people telling other people what to do
The aim of cosmo-localism as a social and political project is therefore to bring these two worlds together and to solve a number of issues that have been described above.
aka: cancerous distractions perpetuating survival triage
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