@bengo @strypey @benpate @EUCommission @nlnet One follow-up I must add, with an Urgent platitude attached. The purpose of innercircles simple life philosophy is not just to imagine a post-hypercapitalist society, but actually transition towards it such that it becomes the prevailing system and without it getting corrupted along the way. We have libraries full of books that dictate how we should do this, and we throw these at each other's head at any occasion to implicitly say "been there, done that, your idea is old". As argued its the practice and experience that counts. Social experience matters. I took hypercapitalism, capitalism-run-amok, as root cause for most society-level wicked problems, like Climate change. As root-cause analyses go, and emergent design evolves, today I use a deeper cause in my applied research: people listening to each other, or rather the inability thereof. Though actually it is the same root cause, just one level lower on SX Pyramid of Perspective ...
@smallcircles @bengo @strypey @benpate @EUCommission @nlnet So yes, the solutions to our wicked problems require coordinated action. It's a "coordination problem". And it requires active listening. How do we mobilise people at the same time in the same direction? So we overcome network effects. Playfulness, a shared goal and vocabulary, a group of committed people / orgs, a commons sustainability model. And some initial funding and shared resources to get the ball rolling. Critical connections. Can we get that off the ground together?
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Arnold here, from my Pixelfed account for Humane Tech Community. While the https://humanetech.community is dormant for now, the intent is to revive community activity based on the insights that Social experience design provides, i.e. apply SX in the field, and build bridges between Social coding commons, Humane tech community (HTC) at https://community.humanetech.com and The Center for Humane Technology at https://humanetech.com In 2018 I took control of the Center's forum as community facilitator and stimulator, because the founders Tristan Harris, Randy Fernando, and Aza Raskin went into a year-long strategic deliberation, talking with world leaders, and tech insiders, and being swamped by global press. When finally their strategic plans were clear, I had a session with them where they shared their outcomes and the real sense of urgency that had totally changed their initial plans to be more of a "Time well spent online" organization, which they had before as a movement. Tristan later told me that "after over a full year of deep strategic thinking and networking we are most afraid of the total unraveling of the social fabric and society, and wars". I may be prosy, and fluffy non-techy, at points. But the intrinsic motivation behind my work of the past 11 years, where I spent my savings to dedicate to a cause, has this same insight and urgency that drives me along and makes me stay. Despite the inherent unsustainability in this fedi & FOSS space I am convinced that here lies greatest opportunity to bring lasting positive societal change. Here, in calm networking environments. And offline in our towns, cities, rural areas, in our neighborhoods. Where all the real people are.