Dear Agnes Pilgrim,
Thank you so much for writing back to me. The things you write are true. And I believe they are the symptoms of the disease and not the cause. They are the heart attack, not the over eating and fatty foods that caused the heart attack.
For me, the thing that is causing all this sickness and "dis"-ease is the modern way of hunting. Most of us no longer hunt in the old way as human beings, and we have therefore lost our knowledge and understanding of the interconnectedness of life. Today we hunt money, as individuals, and in doing so we are also hunting the land, and the water, and the air, and killing all of it in our mad quest for survival. Also, we are not hunting as free interconnect peoples, we are slaves on the plantations of the companies that own everything and have taken away our ability to survive without them. We have also lost our knowledge of ourselves as people, as tribes. Strong, powerful tribes capable of defending ourselves and all that we hold sacred.
But it does not have to be this way. We can create companies that help us live in the modern world, but with reverence and respect for all of life. Companies modeled on the Iroquois Confederacy, the Nez Perce nation, the Aniyunwiya. This is nothing less than the rebirth of the tribes, but in a new form, in a corporate form, with the respect for elders, the sophisticated methods of resolving conflicts, the mutual care, the role for each member of the community to play, that the First Nation peoples pioneered and refined.
I believe that the healing of ourselves, so that Mother Earth will love us again as people living in harmony, will only come with the healing of corporations. Today they are like medieval kingdoms run by greedy and cruel lords, but it does not have to be this way. Corporations can be like the Great Nations of this land, and the Great Indigenous Nations of other lands. They can be fair and just and formed for the good of all and not just to serve the greed of the few.
This is the vision of the old and the new that was given to me by the Great Peacemaker of the Iroquois. This is the path I am told we must walk.
I see the 13 Indigenous Grandmothers calling on all people to become indigenous again. To join the work of liberating ourselves from economic servitude, joining in a great new confederacy and taking our power away from the corporate monarchs and forming new companies to hunt together as people again. To hold sacred all that Mother Earth has given to us, in her love, to sustain us. To have reverence for the resources we need to make use of for our survival, and to use them as efficiently as possible. If we strike at the heart of how corporations are structured, we will not need to go to war over water or anything else. We will have won before the first battle begins.
You have the heart, the sense of urgency. You have given the voice to the voiceless. I believe I have the practical solution to make it happen now. We need each other to do the great work that needs to be done. I believe that the 13 Indigenous Grandmothers have the moral authority and respect to get many people to listen and hear this message and to join together to take the action needed to change things now, before it is too late.
If I were to travel to Oregon with my sister Elizabeth, would you have any time to council with me? I seek your wisdom and your vision to make my vision stronger. I wish the opportunity to show you that what you are working on, and what I am working on, will be easier if we work together. Maybe your physical presence at the Sacred Capital Conference is not needed. Perhaps we could do a live press conference that links all Thirteen Grandmothers around the world in a call for all people to become Indigenous again, to join this Great Economic Alliance for the Earth. To stop giving their power to companies that are killing the planet and to work to liberate themselves from needing them.
The time is now Aggie. I need your help.
With Hope, Determination, and Love,
Michael
agnes pilgrim wrote:
> Dear Michael:
> Thank you for your wisdom regarding our planet.
> .I'm so busy doing a lot of these things. I see a
> water war in our future we sure need to protect
> our waters keep big companies from taking over.
> Without water all life dies. Animals are being in-
> croached upon all over our planet.Their food in
> many places becoming scarce. Just came back
> from Australia some lakes are dried up and all
> you see is a big sheet of white salt! Wells coming
> up salty.Maybe Our Earth Mother is angry at us
> as we don't talk to the water and tell it IT'S Sacred.
> We know water can hear. It is not us adults who
> own the world it's the little people and we are not
> taking very good care of her. We got polution in the
> water,air it's all around us. We all have to do a better
> job. I pray people will wake up and be more sustainable
> You have a nice Holiday Love Grandmother Agnes Baker-Pilgrim.
Monday, December 28, 2009
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
12/23/09
Hello, my name is Michael Rogers and I was given your contact information from Elinor Ostrom.
I am working on organizing my community economically around the concepts she is working on regarding community pool resources and organizational economics. She said that you may be open to talking with me.
I own a cabin resort on the western slope of the High Sierra near Lake Tahoe. Our local economy has been devastated by the hit taken to the building industry. We had allowed a mono-culture economy to develop that was not diversified enough to withstand the "pest" infestation from Wall Street.
Specifically, I am planning a conference on "Sacred Capital" with the goal of encouraging people to think about capitalism and economics as neutral tools, (like a hammer that can be used to build a house, or hit someone on the head with). There is such a strong anti-economic perception that is taking hold in my community and I hope to bring more holistic, equitable and efficient uses of economic theory to inspire people to work together to take care of each other and embrace an interdependent economic vision.
I am in discussions with the local indigenous community to in essence "welcome" the new migrants to this land to join a coalition to build a more equitable, resilient, and decentralize (democratic) economy. I believe the moral authority of this action would serve as a great catalyst to getting people to come together. However, I hope that the meat of the conference is specific scientifically verifiable information that outlines the effectiveness of complex adaptive structures, the "design parameters" of successfully managed community pooled resources, and systemic best practices for management of forest "assets" for continued abundance in all its forms.
What I am looking for is assistance in articulating at the conference the specific "design parameters" that Ms. Ostrom has been developing, and hopefully finding someone locally who might be willing to participate in the conference as a presenter. This is a project that is being started with few resources, however we will be developing a budget for the conference that will include compensation, including a really nice cabin on 160 acres of High Sierra Splendor.
Thank you for your consideration. I eagerly await hearing from you after the holidays.
With Hope and Determination,
Michael Rogers
I am working on organizing my community economically around the concepts she is working on regarding community pool resources and organizational economics. She said that you may be open to talking with me.
I own a cabin resort on the western slope of the High Sierra near Lake Tahoe. Our local economy has been devastated by the hit taken to the building industry. We had allowed a mono-culture economy to develop that was not diversified enough to withstand the "pest" infestation from Wall Street.
Specifically, I am planning a conference on "Sacred Capital" with the goal of encouraging people to think about capitalism and economics as neutral tools, (like a hammer that can be used to build a house, or hit someone on the head with). There is such a strong anti-economic perception that is taking hold in my community and I hope to bring more holistic, equitable and efficient uses of economic theory to inspire people to work together to take care of each other and embrace an interdependent economic vision.
I am in discussions with the local indigenous community to in essence "welcome" the new migrants to this land to join a coalition to build a more equitable, resilient, and decentralize (democratic) economy. I believe the moral authority of this action would serve as a great catalyst to getting people to come together. However, I hope that the meat of the conference is specific scientifically verifiable information that outlines the effectiveness of complex adaptive structures, the "design parameters" of successfully managed community pooled resources, and systemic best practices for management of forest "assets" for continued abundance in all its forms.
What I am looking for is assistance in articulating at the conference the specific "design parameters" that Ms. Ostrom has been developing, and hopefully finding someone locally who might be willing to participate in the conference as a presenter. This is a project that is being started with few resources, however we will be developing a budget for the conference that will include compensation, including a really nice cabin on 160 acres of High Sierra Splendor.
Thank you for your consideration. I eagerly await hearing from you after the holidays.
With Hope and Determination,
Michael Rogers
12/23/09
Dear Ms. Baker-Pilgrim,
I am writing you because I have been inspired by your words and I believe we share a vision for healing and because you have met my sister Elizabeth and she says that you have a great and loving spirit.
What I have to say will sound a little odd, but I cannot say what is in my heart using mainstream, dominant culture phrases.
I believe that the spirit of the Great Peacemaker has spoken to me. He has giving me a vision for healing the people by calling all the "warring tribes" together to form a new great confederacy to nurture us as, and teach us to be, human beings again -- E Plurabus Unum (out of many, one).
This confederacy is to take a very specific form. It is a marriage of the old and the new. I am a mutt. My ancestors are the Kings of England back to William the Conqueror and Charlemagne, but I am also lost Aniyunwiya who walked our trail of tears to Oklahoma, then during the time of the dust bowl migrated to Los Angeles when an "Indian Oky" was the lowest wrung on societies' ladder and proceeded to pass for white. I have many ancestors, but I consider myself 100% Native American. And the time has come for us all to become Indigenous again. But to do that, we need to form the lost ones into the Next Nations and strengthen and empower the First Nations and then join together as equal, respected partners, for only in the context of ourselves as a "people" can we be Human Beings.
The core of this new vision is "Sacred Capital". The marriage of the First Nations belief in the sacred regarding the earth and all that she provides to care for us, and the economic structures of the modern economy. 2007 was the tipping point in human history. It marked the rise of the corporate state. It was the first time that of the 100 largest economies of the world, more than 51% are now corporations, not nation states. It is primarily "unsacred" capital which is consuming the beauty of the earth, poisoning two leggeds, and four, and eights, and so on. It is "unsacred" capital which is imprisoning the people, dividing us from ourselves as interdependent beings, taking away and defiling our sacred lands that have nurtured us as human beings, and removing us to environmental barren "reservations" and where we cannot get what we need truly survive and where we are forced to work on the economic plantations of a ruling class.
Aggie (if I may be so bold), the Kings have returned, and all people and animals and rivers are in peril, but together we can heal our economic structures by looking to the wisdom of indigenous people who have not yet forgotten how to be human beings.
My vision tells me that the first step is to offer my vision to a coalition of First Nations people on my land this Summer. To ask them to embrace the idea of Sacred Capital and then to suggest that they call out to the lost people and ask them to join them in building a new sacred economy. The "moral authority" of this act would be a powerful catalyst to start this much needed shift. To encourage all of us to stop empowering the "unsacred" economy with our purchases and creativity. To ask people to come together and form a sacred Bank so that we can take our power back. That Bank will take our sacred capital and lend it to build new businesses, or buy old ones, that are based on sacred principals including the Great Law of Peace. From there the creation of an insurance company that will operate on the principal of taking care of it customers as efficiently as possible. From there I see the building of radically resource efficient communities that are built around people and eliminate the need for automobiles and fossil fuels as much as possible and leave as much land we can for the four leggeds and winged animals and for the creation of pure water and air.
The good news is that these economic concepts can actually be more powerful than the current dominate economic structures. See the work of Nobel Prize winning Economist Elinor Olstrom (http://nobelprize.org/mediaplayer/index.php?id=1229 this link takes you to an interview where she talks about the efficiency of "community pooled resources" and how they lead to less "over harvesting of resources and more equitable distribution of benefits).
I know this is a lot, and I hope I have not over whelmed you. I would love to come to Oregon to met with you in person and discuss these matters, or offer you a cabin in the Tahoe National Forest to enjoy (www.shinneyboocreek.com) if you are ever passing thru the land I call home.
Please give me the benefit of your wisdom and advice. I wait in excited expectation for your reply.
With Hope and Determination,
Alisgia Awohali
I am writing you because I have been inspired by your words and I believe we share a vision for healing and because you have met my sister Elizabeth and she says that you have a great and loving spirit.
What I have to say will sound a little odd, but I cannot say what is in my heart using mainstream, dominant culture phrases.
I believe that the spirit of the Great Peacemaker has spoken to me. He has giving me a vision for healing the people by calling all the "warring tribes" together to form a new great confederacy to nurture us as, and teach us to be, human beings again -- E Plurabus Unum (out of many, one).
This confederacy is to take a very specific form. It is a marriage of the old and the new. I am a mutt. My ancestors are the Kings of England back to William the Conqueror and Charlemagne, but I am also lost Aniyunwiya who walked our trail of tears to Oklahoma, then during the time of the dust bowl migrated to Los Angeles when an "Indian Oky" was the lowest wrung on societies' ladder and proceeded to pass for white. I have many ancestors, but I consider myself 100% Native American. And the time has come for us all to become Indigenous again. But to do that, we need to form the lost ones into the Next Nations and strengthen and empower the First Nations and then join together as equal, respected partners, for only in the context of ourselves as a "people" can we be Human Beings.
The core of this new vision is "Sacred Capital". The marriage of the First Nations belief in the sacred regarding the earth and all that she provides to care for us, and the economic structures of the modern economy. 2007 was the tipping point in human history. It marked the rise of the corporate state. It was the first time that of the 100 largest economies of the world, more than 51% are now corporations, not nation states. It is primarily "unsacred" capital which is consuming the beauty of the earth, poisoning two leggeds, and four, and eights, and so on. It is "unsacred" capital which is imprisoning the people, dividing us from ourselves as interdependent beings, taking away and defiling our sacred lands that have nurtured us as human beings, and removing us to environmental barren "reservations" and where we cannot get what we need truly survive and where we are forced to work on the economic plantations of a ruling class.
Aggie (if I may be so bold), the Kings have returned, and all people and animals and rivers are in peril, but together we can heal our economic structures by looking to the wisdom of indigenous people who have not yet forgotten how to be human beings.
My vision tells me that the first step is to offer my vision to a coalition of First Nations people on my land this Summer. To ask them to embrace the idea of Sacred Capital and then to suggest that they call out to the lost people and ask them to join them in building a new sacred economy. The "moral authority" of this act would be a powerful catalyst to start this much needed shift. To encourage all of us to stop empowering the "unsacred" economy with our purchases and creativity. To ask people to come together and form a sacred Bank so that we can take our power back. That Bank will take our sacred capital and lend it to build new businesses, or buy old ones, that are based on sacred principals including the Great Law of Peace. From there the creation of an insurance company that will operate on the principal of taking care of it customers as efficiently as possible. From there I see the building of radically resource efficient communities that are built around people and eliminate the need for automobiles and fossil fuels as much as possible and leave as much land we can for the four leggeds and winged animals and for the creation of pure water and air.
The good news is that these economic concepts can actually be more powerful than the current dominate economic structures. See the work of Nobel Prize winning Economist Elinor Olstrom (http://nobelprize.org/mediaplayer/index.php?id=1229 this link takes you to an interview where she talks about the efficiency of "community pooled resources" and how they lead to less "over harvesting of resources and more equitable distribution of benefits).
I know this is a lot, and I hope I have not over whelmed you. I would love to come to Oregon to met with you in person and discuss these matters, or offer you a cabin in the Tahoe National Forest to enjoy (www.shinneyboocreek.com) if you are ever passing thru the land I call home.
Please give me the benefit of your wisdom and advice. I wait in excited expectation for your reply.
With Hope and Determination,
Alisgia Awohali
Monday, December 21, 2009
12/21/09
Dear Ms. Ostrom.
I hope that things have calmed down for you a bit after your great honor. The Noble Prize has given me the opportunity to discover your work, as well as many, many others I am sure. I realize that you may not be able to respond to this, given all the world attention your recent fame is sure to have brought you. However, I am writing anyway in an attempt to get your perspective on the work I am doing and to possibly have you speak at a conference I am organizing on "Sacred Capital". So, here goes nothing . . .
I have been working on redirecting the huge body of organizational design that has gone into good civic governance and applying those methodologies to corporate governance. Some of the good design parameters being checks and balances, separation of powers, and elected leadership. I hope to be the catalyst for an economic evolution modeled after the American governmental revolution. As your work so clearly shows, good democratic governance is far more efficient, effective, and equitable than hierarchy. I am not a scientist, I am a public entrepreneur and I excited about the social, environmental, and economic benefits that could flow from a shift to good corporate governance, just as the shift to good national governance was the catalyst for our current abundance and ease.
The purpose of the Sacred Capital Conference that I am organizing this Summer at my resort in Northern California is to create a public awareness of the benefits of good economic organizational design. I am attempting to make the connection between the American Indigenous People's concept of sacredness and the management and governance of economic capital. I believe the indigenous concept of sacredness to have been a mechanism of social governance and resource management that lead to their pooled resources being managed for abundance and to avoid over harvesting. The challenge is that we don't hunt deer any more, we hunt money. But if we could apply some of the same reverence (i.e. acknowledgment of good organization design parameters) to the acquisition of capital, that the First Nations applied to the acquisition of the resources they needed to survive, then perhaps we could move our society away from the insatiable orgy for independent means, and over harvesting, towards more interdependent, decentralized, and efficient community control of economic resources.
I am in discussions with Anges Baker Pilgrim, one of the Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers who are speaking up for future generations, and whom have a great deal of authority among the under 40 crowd. My plan is to convene a council of First Nation representatives to discuss the concept of Sacred Capital, and the benefits of community pooled resources. My hope is to have a broad coalition of First Nation leaders agree to a plan of, basically, welcoming the latest wave immigrants (post 1492) to join with them to build the New Nations. These New Nations would be what I call "Policorps", hybrid organization structures that blends the three engines of our society -- the best of democratic governance, entrepreneurial creativity and energy, and the social cohesion and mutual care of traditional community. I believe the inherent dramatic potential of this event would be broadly covered in the international media and online, helping to bring attention to the good work you and others like you are doing and hopefully leading towards structural changes in how we organize ourselves.
I hope that you might come and help convince the gathering of the real, tangible, scientifically verifiable benefits of community pooled resources, thus blending the sacred with the science. If your schedule does not allow it, I hope that there is a brilliant graduate student or colleague who might want to spend a week in the High Sierra off the Yuba River talking about the future.
With hope and determination,
M
I hope that things have calmed down for you a bit after your great honor. The Noble Prize has given me the opportunity to discover your work, as well as many, many others I am sure. I realize that you may not be able to respond to this, given all the world attention your recent fame is sure to have brought you. However, I am writing anyway in an attempt to get your perspective on the work I am doing and to possibly have you speak at a conference I am organizing on "Sacred Capital". So, here goes nothing . . .
I have been working on redirecting the huge body of organizational design that has gone into good civic governance and applying those methodologies to corporate governance. Some of the good design parameters being checks and balances, separation of powers, and elected leadership. I hope to be the catalyst for an economic evolution modeled after the American governmental revolution. As your work so clearly shows, good democratic governance is far more efficient, effective, and equitable than hierarchy. I am not a scientist, I am a public entrepreneur and I excited about the social, environmental, and economic benefits that could flow from a shift to good corporate governance, just as the shift to good national governance was the catalyst for our current abundance and ease.
The purpose of the Sacred Capital Conference that I am organizing this Summer at my resort in Northern California is to create a public awareness of the benefits of good economic organizational design. I am attempting to make the connection between the American Indigenous People's concept of sacredness and the management and governance of economic capital. I believe the indigenous concept of sacredness to have been a mechanism of social governance and resource management that lead to their pooled resources being managed for abundance and to avoid over harvesting. The challenge is that we don't hunt deer any more, we hunt money. But if we could apply some of the same reverence (i.e. acknowledgment of good organization design parameters) to the acquisition of capital, that the First Nations applied to the acquisition of the resources they needed to survive, then perhaps we could move our society away from the insatiable orgy for independent means, and over harvesting, towards more interdependent, decentralized, and efficient community control of economic resources.
I am in discussions with Anges Baker Pilgrim, one of the Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers who are speaking up for future generations, and whom have a great deal of authority among the under 40 crowd. My plan is to convene a council of First Nation representatives to discuss the concept of Sacred Capital, and the benefits of community pooled resources. My hope is to have a broad coalition of First Nation leaders agree to a plan of, basically, welcoming the latest wave immigrants (post 1492) to join with them to build the New Nations. These New Nations would be what I call "Policorps", hybrid organization structures that blends the three engines of our society -- the best of democratic governance, entrepreneurial creativity and energy, and the social cohesion and mutual care of traditional community. I believe the inherent dramatic potential of this event would be broadly covered in the international media and online, helping to bring attention to the good work you and others like you are doing and hopefully leading towards structural changes in how we organize ourselves.
I hope that you might come and help convince the gathering of the real, tangible, scientifically verifiable benefits of community pooled resources, thus blending the sacred with the science. If your schedule does not allow it, I hope that there is a brilliant graduate student or colleague who might want to spend a week in the High Sierra off the Yuba River talking about the future.
With hope and determination,
M
Friday, October 16, 2009
10/16/09
Thanks. The ideas are very serious for me however. I believe that the democratization of capital is the great task of our generation. For me it is an important idea to get out into the world and your talents could be the very way to do so in a humorous, entertaining way. How much would I need to raise to contract with you for a Captain Capitalism cartoon like the ones you have done already? Say, were Captain Capitalism has an epiphany, maybe with the help of a little yoda like Gandi who tells him "Change the be you want the world to see" then he falls asleep and Thomas Paine's Common Sense falls off the bookshelf and clobbers him on the head.
Then he wakes up realizing that his beloved capitalism is in danger and he must save it, but he can't do it alone. He needs all the boys and girls to help. To gather all their dimes an quarters and energize new corporations of the people, by the people, and for the people. Corporations with out kings. Corporations there to serve the governed.
One of the largest shifts in human society has occurred in the last 20 years - up there with the wheel, the hunter/gatherer band, and the rise of the nation state. The majority of the 100 largest economies in the world are now corporate states, not nation states. The corporate state is the ascendant form of governance in our world and we must begin the work of making them self-regulating, accountable structures if we have any hope of a free and prosperous future for our children.
Peace.
Then he wakes up realizing that his beloved capitalism is in danger and he must save it, but he can't do it alone. He needs all the boys and girls to help. To gather all their dimes an quarters and energize new corporations of the people, by the people, and for the people. Corporations with out kings. Corporations there to serve the governed.
One of the largest shifts in human society has occurred in the last 20 years - up there with the wheel, the hunter/gatherer band, and the rise of the nation state. The majority of the 100 largest economies in the world are now corporate states, not nation states. The corporate state is the ascendant form of governance in our world and we must begin the work of making them self-regulating, accountable structures if we have any hope of a free and prosperous future for our children.
Peace.
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
October 13, 2009
XXXXXX XXXXX Baker wrote:
> How about a synopsis on your theory on economic evolution? - I am interested that someone has a new idea - I think most people are just trying to wait it out.
Basically, the premise is this. A seismic shift has occurred in human society. The majority of the largest economies in the world are corporations, not governments. These top companies control 40% of the world economy but only employ 1% of the population. The question is not whether this is true, but what are we going to do about it, to insure our access to prosperity, liberty and the pursuit of happiness? I think the answer is simple. Millions and millions of brilliant human minds have dedicated themselves, since the rise of the nation state over 1,000 years ago, to the problem of creating accountable governments that are of the people, for the people, and by the people. Now is the time to apply all of that thought to the ascendant form of government, the corporate state. We are building a Democratic Economic Nation (DEN) at Shinneyboo where no one can ever become King (myself especially). We will do this by creating governing constitution that applies the concepts of Checks and Balances, Branches of Governance, Elected Accountable Leadership, etc. We will build a strong, profitable, corporation that is created to serve the people who work for it and invest in it.
> How about a synopsis on your theory on economic evolution? - I am interested that someone has a new idea - I think most people are just trying to wait it out.
Basically, the premise is this. A seismic shift has occurred in human society. The majority of the largest economies in the world are corporations, not governments. These top companies control 40% of the world economy but only employ 1% of the population. The question is not whether this is true, but what are we going to do about it, to insure our access to prosperity, liberty and the pursuit of happiness? I think the answer is simple. Millions and millions of brilliant human minds have dedicated themselves, since the rise of the nation state over 1,000 years ago, to the problem of creating accountable governments that are of the people, for the people, and by the people. Now is the time to apply all of that thought to the ascendant form of government, the corporate state. We are building a Democratic Economic Nation (DEN) at Shinneyboo where no one can ever become King (myself especially). We will do this by creating governing constitution that applies the concepts of Checks and Balances, Branches of Governance, Elected Accountable Leadership, etc. We will build a strong, profitable, corporation that is created to serve the people who work for it and invest in it.
October 13, 2009
XXXXXX XXXXX Baker wrote:
> How about a synopsis on your theory on economic evolution? - I am interested that someone has a new idea - I think most people are just trying to wait it out.
Basically, the premise is this. A seismic shift has occurred in human society. The majority of the largest economies in the world are corporations, not governments. These top companies control 40% of the world economy but only employ 1% of the population. The question is not whether this is true, but what are we going to do about it, to insure our access to prosperity, liberty and the pursuit of happiness? I think the answer is simple. Millions and millions of brilliant human minds have dedicated themselves, since the rise of the nation state over 1,000 years ago, to the problem of creating accountable governments that are of the people, for the people, and by the people. Now is the time to apply all of that thought to the ascendant form of government, the corporate state. We are building a Democratic Economic Nation (DEN) at Shinneyboo where no one can ever become King (myself especially). We will do this by creating governing constitution that applies the concepts of Checks and Balances, Branches of Governance, Elected Accountable Leadership, etc. We will build a strong, profitable, corporation that is created to serve the people who work for it and invest in it.
> How about a synopsis on your theory on economic evolution? - I am interested that someone has a new idea - I think most people are just trying to wait it out.
Basically, the premise is this. A seismic shift has occurred in human society. The majority of the largest economies in the world are corporations, not governments. These top companies control 40% of the world economy but only employ 1% of the population. The question is not whether this is true, but what are we going to do about it, to insure our access to prosperity, liberty and the pursuit of happiness? I think the answer is simple. Millions and millions of brilliant human minds have dedicated themselves, since the rise of the nation state over 1,000 years ago, to the problem of creating accountable governments that are of the people, for the people, and by the people. Now is the time to apply all of that thought to the ascendant form of government, the corporate state. We are building a Democratic Economic Nation (DEN) at Shinneyboo where no one can ever become King (myself especially). We will do this by creating governing constitution that applies the concepts of Checks and Balances, Branches of Governance, Elected Accountable Leadership, etc. We will build a strong, profitable, corporation that is created to serve the people who work for it and invest in it.
Thursday, September 10, 2009
September 10, 2009
It was a pleasure talking to you. You obviously have a depth of knowledge that could be useful to me and I look forward to speaking with you further. I agree with you on the short comings of Alexander the Great, however, my breath of knowledge and study comes from the more collaborative cultures of North America, specifically the Nez Perce and the Iroquois cultures, and a more systemic, less authoritarian, brand of leadership model.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haudenosaunee
I think it is precisely the western style of authoritarian, dictatorial leadership that has gotten us in this problem. A systemic leader tries to till the soil and make the conditions right for desired outcomes like prosperity and community, but is willing to detach from what actually ends up occurring (as long as the systemic goals are met).
Also, the book "The Genius of America" makes the case that the American Revolution was one of the only ones in history based on the premise that leaders will become greedy and corrupt and therefore care needs to be taken with separation of powers, elections, and an independent judiciary to insure that no one can ever become king (although people have come pretty close).
My vision has been to take all of what we have learned about western style political democracy and apply it to corporations and to bring the new "warring tribes" together in a great economic prosperity to insure that tyranny does not prevail in our world and that corporate "nobility" can no longer be free riders on the backs of hard working, honest, individuals.
I hope that I can convince you to believe in what collaborations of free people are capable of achieving and that you will find promise in becoming a patriot for this great cause.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haudenosaunee
I think it is precisely the western style of authoritarian, dictatorial leadership that has gotten us in this problem. A systemic leader tries to till the soil and make the conditions right for desired outcomes like prosperity and community, but is willing to detach from what actually ends up occurring (as long as the systemic goals are met).
Also, the book "The Genius of America" makes the case that the American Revolution was one of the only ones in history based on the premise that leaders will become greedy and corrupt and therefore care needs to be taken with separation of powers, elections, and an independent judiciary to insure that no one can ever become king (although people have come pretty close).
My vision has been to take all of what we have learned about western style political democracy and apply it to corporations and to bring the new "warring tribes" together in a great economic prosperity to insure that tyranny does not prevail in our world and that corporate "nobility" can no longer be free riders on the backs of hard working, honest, individuals.
I hope that I can convince you to believe in what collaborations of free people are capable of achieving and that you will find promise in becoming a patriot for this great cause.
Monday, July 13, 2009
July 13th, 2009
It was great meeting you. I am excited in moving forward with The Economic Alliance (TEA) Party -- a non-aligned, non-ideological Political and Economic Action Committee.
I will be working on coming up with a brief description of TEA Party, Policorps, the cellular multi-level organizational model, incorporated democracy, and some suggested initial goals and objectives. In addition, I will be setting up the bank account and Direct Debit system of dues payments. In the mean time, you can focus on getting a cell together in your area. This should be close, trusted family and friends who get together on a regular basis anyway and could easily add TEA Party organizing to your lives. Once you have 8 to 12 members, you will need to "hire" one among you to represent your cell in the central organization. Also, as soon as possible, each of your original members will need to begin forming their own cells. Each original member will be the initial "hire" to represent their newly formed "divided" cells in your original cell. Once the divided cells are formed with 8-12 members they will officially vote who they are hiring to represent them in your original cell. (I am going to work on simplifying how this is all described).
The cells that I am going to form up here will decide quickly if they want to focus on purchasing the property and moving forward with the development of "Aggressively Resource Efficient Communities (ARECs)" on the Western Slope and whether to try and go after acquiring additional parcels. I am open to any involvement you want to have in that process. No companies will be formed by TEA Party but there will be separate for-profit or non-profit incorporations as "states" in the Union. TEA Party will act like a loose federal confederation for the purpose of aggregating judgment, capital, political influence and the best ideas and practices. I will be forming both Fostering Industry and a for profit company call Nisenan Valley Group. My goal is to sell my equity to Nisenan and to transition from a owner/king to an employee/citizen. My initial thoughts are that if I can "naturalize" 600 citizens who commit to paying $15 per month for 10 years then we will sell our interest to these 600 citizens at $15 a month, or 300 citizens at $30 a month, or 150 citizens at $60 a month, or 75 citizens at $120 a month depending on where the goals and aspirations of the group go. I have to get back work as this has taken about an hour to write, but let me know your thoughts.
Please email this to your dad as I seem to have already lost his email (I need administrative help soon). Also, could you forward that to me?
I will be working on coming up with a brief description of TEA Party, Policorps, the cellular multi-level organizational model, incorporated democracy, and some suggested initial goals and objectives. In addition, I will be setting up the bank account and Direct Debit system of dues payments. In the mean time, you can focus on getting a cell together in your area. This should be close, trusted family and friends who get together on a regular basis anyway and could easily add TEA Party organizing to your lives. Once you have 8 to 12 members, you will need to "hire" one among you to represent your cell in the central organization. Also, as soon as possible, each of your original members will need to begin forming their own cells. Each original member will be the initial "hire" to represent their newly formed "divided" cells in your original cell. Once the divided cells are formed with 8-12 members they will officially vote who they are hiring to represent them in your original cell. (I am going to work on simplifying how this is all described).
The cells that I am going to form up here will decide quickly if they want to focus on purchasing the property and moving forward with the development of "Aggressively Resource Efficient Communities (ARECs)" on the Western Slope and whether to try and go after acquiring additional parcels. I am open to any involvement you want to have in that process. No companies will be formed by TEA Party but there will be separate for-profit or non-profit incorporations as "states" in the Union. TEA Party will act like a loose federal confederation for the purpose of aggregating judgment, capital, political influence and the best ideas and practices. I will be forming both Fostering Industry and a for profit company call Nisenan Valley Group. My goal is to sell my equity to Nisenan and to transition from a owner/king to an employee/citizen. My initial thoughts are that if I can "naturalize" 600 citizens who commit to paying $15 per month for 10 years then we will sell our interest to these 600 citizens at $15 a month, or 300 citizens at $30 a month, or 150 citizens at $60 a month, or 75 citizens at $120 a month depending on where the goals and aspirations of the group go. I have to get back work as this has taken about an hour to write, but let me know your thoughts.
Please email this to your dad as I seem to have already lost his email (I need administrative help soon). Also, could you forward that to me?
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
May 26. 2009
I thought of a idea for a Far Side like cartoon where God announces that he is giving a seminar on Evolution, the huge scary dinosaur says "Evolution, not interested, my fundamentals are sound", and the meek, cowering lemur like prosimian with big wide eyes says "What time is that going to be?"
I have been having some new ideas that have gotten me thinking and I was wondering if you have time to give me feedback. I think I will never be content simply writing, as I feel an urgency to get things moving now.
I was reading Obama's "Dreams of My Father" and came to the section on community organizing. His goal was to find an issue to organize around, and it almost didn't matter what it was as long as it brought people together. Then I was watching Bill Moyer's Journal with Donna Smith of the California Nursing Association about how Single Payer is not even being considered in the new health initiative. It is off the table from the beginning. Which is an outrage and a clear indication of the corrupting influence of undemocratic capital in our political system. Then I applied Incorporated Democracy to the issue and instead of fighting the corporate line I came up with an entrepreneurial idea of creating a 'Policorp" insurance company for the people of Nevada County. A $500 a month premium would generate $600 Million dollars to support the two county Hospitals, plus property tax dollars, medicare funds, workers comp dollars, and more funding sources. You could then eliminate every cost associated with billing and insurance and allow the hospital to treat any resident of the county free of charge. The hospital would then have a huge incentive to invest in preventative care. Also, some mechanism would need to be put in place to pass the costs on to those patients that refuse to stop smoking, drinking in excess, or over eating after every measure had been applied to help them correct their unhealthy behavior. Also, as end of life care accounts for up to 70 percent of health care costs, some kind of community consensus would need to be reached on how much we we spend on the last year or two of each of our lives (for instance the hip replacement for Obama's terminally ill Grandmother). Obviously big heady issues for a community to try and reach a decision on, but exciting in what is possible.
I then see creating a "Return to Common Sense" journal that is used to communicate and mobilize the community. And, if a community consensus did form and the existing Board of Supervisors and the elected Hospital Boards did not fully support its implementation, then a recall election could be done to move things forward rapidly. I see having a weekly meeting of an "Evolutionary Council" at Shinneyboo Creek to formulate information and strategy and a small monthly dues structure to aggregate capital and pay expenses. The dues could be covered by selling say 10 copies of the Return to Common Sense a month for those who can't come up with the dues. Then a version of a Network Marketing structure could be created not only to rapidly expand the base but also to serve as a method of aggregating judgment through a series of democratically structured organizational cells that make decisions and then pass them up series of levels to one large corporate governing body.
Writing "The Next American Evolution" seems so distant from making real change. I wonder if I could effect more immediate benefit by applying the concepts to the critical problems facing my community. I am reading "Harnessing Complexity" about science surrounding the concepts and mechanisms of Complex Adaptive Structures and I am excited by the possibilities of the application of this thinking. I am wondering if this type of organizing could give me practical experience that would inform and shape the writing I do later.
Thanks for your time. Your thoughts are appreciated.
With Hope and Determination,
Michael Rogers
I have been having some new ideas that have gotten me thinking and I was wondering if you have time to give me feedback. I think I will never be content simply writing, as I feel an urgency to get things moving now.
I was reading Obama's "Dreams of My Father" and came to the section on community organizing. His goal was to find an issue to organize around, and it almost didn't matter what it was as long as it brought people together. Then I was watching Bill Moyer's Journal with Donna Smith of the California Nursing Association about how Single Payer is not even being considered in the new health initiative. It is off the table from the beginning. Which is an outrage and a clear indication of the corrupting influence of undemocratic capital in our political system. Then I applied Incorporated Democracy to the issue and instead of fighting the corporate line I came up with an entrepreneurial idea of creating a 'Policorp" insurance company for the people of Nevada County. A $500 a month premium would generate $600 Million dollars to support the two county Hospitals, plus property tax dollars, medicare funds, workers comp dollars, and more funding sources. You could then eliminate every cost associated with billing and insurance and allow the hospital to treat any resident of the county free of charge. The hospital would then have a huge incentive to invest in preventative care. Also, some mechanism would need to be put in place to pass the costs on to those patients that refuse to stop smoking, drinking in excess, or over eating after every measure had been applied to help them correct their unhealthy behavior. Also, as end of life care accounts for up to 70 percent of health care costs, some kind of community consensus would need to be reached on how much we we spend on the last year or two of each of our lives (for instance the hip replacement for Obama's terminally ill Grandmother). Obviously big heady issues for a community to try and reach a decision on, but exciting in what is possible.
I then see creating a "Return to Common Sense" journal that is used to communicate and mobilize the community. And, if a community consensus did form and the existing Board of Supervisors and the elected Hospital Boards did not fully support its implementation, then a recall election could be done to move things forward rapidly. I see having a weekly meeting of an "Evolutionary Council" at Shinneyboo Creek to formulate information and strategy and a small monthly dues structure to aggregate capital and pay expenses. The dues could be covered by selling say 10 copies of the Return to Common Sense a month for those who can't come up with the dues. Then a version of a Network Marketing structure could be created not only to rapidly expand the base but also to serve as a method of aggregating judgment through a series of democratically structured organizational cells that make decisions and then pass them up series of levels to one large corporate governing body.
Writing "The Next American Evolution" seems so distant from making real change. I wonder if I could effect more immediate benefit by applying the concepts to the critical problems facing my community. I am reading "Harnessing Complexity" about science surrounding the concepts and mechanisms of Complex Adaptive Structures and I am excited by the possibilities of the application of this thinking. I am wondering if this type of organizing could give me practical experience that would inform and shape the writing I do later.
Thanks for your time. Your thoughts are appreciated.
With Hope and Determination,
Michael Rogers
Saturday, May 9, 2009
May 9, 2009
Mr. Axelrod,
I am writing because I have come across your work in my research into the Evolution of Cooperation. I am specifically looking at applying "high-tech" scientific theory to economic organizational structures. I am developing an organizational model called a "policorp" -- a hybrid structure that combines three social "engines" into one systemically coherent organizational structure -- the economic might of the corporate, the cooperative sophistication of the democratic political, and the focus on a communities' social needs of the non-profit sector.
I am wondering what the applicability of agent based modeling could be to my work?
I believe world society is in desperate need of a "good design" for how we organized economically -- one that is far more sophisticated than the current dominant, feudally inspired, corporate model. The multiple crisises on Wall Street demonstrates to me the failure of our current corporate model to incorporate sufficiently high-tech judgment aggregation and to understand the impacts of Condorcet's Jury Theorem. As well as the social dangers that have arisen from a naive system based on the hope that business leaders will do what is right. I am reminded of the story of the scorpion and the frog, whom he convinces to carry him across the river, were the scorpion stings the frog midstream killing them both with the excuse "I couldn't help myself, it is my nature." The "genius" of American Democracy was that, unlike socialism and communism, we assumed leaders "nature" would be to become greed and corrupt and we built a system design to insure that no one could become King and that the government would always remain "of the people, by the people, and for the people". I am convinced that there is now an evolutionary imperative that we apply that thought to the design of new incorporations of the hopes and dreams of our people.
The freeriders in complex non-governmental systems are increasingly becoming the leaders of those organizations and they are creating a barrier to cooperation where there is no benefit of cooperation to all of the myriad of cooperators who have built those very organizations, including staff, from upper management to entry level, and increasingly the investors who have funded them.
Just as the success of the American Founders was rooted in their love of good government, as opposed to most revolutions which were based more in a dislike of government, I am a unrepentant capitalist who believes that capitalism is in desperate need of "re-tooling". I have attached some writings that can give you an idea on the direction of my work. I have multiple goals including: inspiring the building of a Policorp on the Western Slope of the High Sierra; writing of a book called The Next American Evolution -- Incorporated Democracy and a Return to Common Sense; and the development of the Global Institute for Capital Evolution (GlobalICE) to support the Scientific, intellectual, and policy underpinnings of this economic evolution at my 160 acre resort near Lake Tahoe, California.
I am writing to see if you have any interest in discussing these issues further with me to help in the research I need move forward in a manner firmly based in the best scientific thinking, or secondarily whether there is a graduate student (or Northern California based program) who might be interested in consulting on our project in conjunction with their educational pursuits, or thirdly if you could be so kind as to point me in a direction to educate myself further, with the understanding that I am not scientifically trained.
We are willing to pursue grants to support any assistance you might see fit to provide. If you have made it this far, I thank you for your time and consideration.
With Hope and Determination,
Michael Rogers
I am writing because I have come across your work in my research into the Evolution of Cooperation. I am specifically looking at applying "high-tech" scientific theory to economic organizational structures. I am developing an organizational model called a "policorp" -- a hybrid structure that combines three social "engines" into one systemically coherent organizational structure -- the economic might of the corporate, the cooperative sophistication of the democratic political, and the focus on a communities' social needs of the non-profit sector.
I am wondering what the applicability of agent based modeling could be to my work?
I believe world society is in desperate need of a "good design" for how we organized economically -- one that is far more sophisticated than the current dominant, feudally inspired, corporate model. The multiple crisises on Wall Street demonstrates to me the failure of our current corporate model to incorporate sufficiently high-tech judgment aggregation and to understand the impacts of Condorcet's Jury Theorem. As well as the social dangers that have arisen from a naive system based on the hope that business leaders will do what is right. I am reminded of the story of the scorpion and the frog, whom he convinces to carry him across the river, were the scorpion stings the frog midstream killing them both with the excuse "I couldn't help myself, it is my nature." The "genius" of American Democracy was that, unlike socialism and communism, we assumed leaders "nature" would be to become greed and corrupt and we built a system design to insure that no one could become King and that the government would always remain "of the people, by the people, and for the people". I am convinced that there is now an evolutionary imperative that we apply that thought to the design of new incorporations of the hopes and dreams of our people.
The freeriders in complex non-governmental systems are increasingly becoming the leaders of those organizations and they are creating a barrier to cooperation where there is no benefit of cooperation to all of the myriad of cooperators who have built those very organizations, including staff, from upper management to entry level, and increasingly the investors who have funded them.
Just as the success of the American Founders was rooted in their love of good government, as opposed to most revolutions which were based more in a dislike of government, I am a unrepentant capitalist who believes that capitalism is in desperate need of "re-tooling". I have attached some writings that can give you an idea on the direction of my work. I have multiple goals including: inspiring the building of a Policorp on the Western Slope of the High Sierra; writing of a book called The Next American Evolution -- Incorporated Democracy and a Return to Common Sense; and the development of the Global Institute for Capital Evolution (GlobalICE) to support the Scientific, intellectual, and policy underpinnings of this economic evolution at my 160 acre resort near Lake Tahoe, California.
I am writing to see if you have any interest in discussing these issues further with me to help in the research I need move forward in a manner firmly based in the best scientific thinking, or secondarily whether there is a graduate student (or Northern California based program) who might be interested in consulting on our project in conjunction with their educational pursuits, or thirdly if you could be so kind as to point me in a direction to educate myself further, with the understanding that I am not scientifically trained.
We are willing to pursue grants to support any assistance you might see fit to provide. If you have made it this far, I thank you for your time and consideration.
With Hope and Determination,
Michael Rogers
Monday, April 27, 2009
4/27/09
The Honorable Tom McClintock
4230 Douglas Blvd. Suite 200
Granite Bay, CA 95746
April 23, 2009
Re: Systemic Resource Analysis of the Western Slope of the Central High Sierra
Dear Tom,
It has been said that “failing to plan is planning to fail”. The Western Slope of the Central High Sierra is an incredibly resource rich region facing daunting challenges. What will the Western Slope look like in 30 years?
A group of dedicated citizens from Placer and Nevada counties have been meeting to discuss these issues and have formed the Western Slope Community Group in order to begin an informal process of brainstorming solutions. Our belief is that addressed in isolation these issues will be difficult, if not impossible, to solve. The traditional “silo” method of planning will not work in this world of competing and often contradictory interest groups, agendas, and limited resources. However, exciting inter-dependencies are possible when we begin to apply “systems analysis” to the challenges of our region. We have identified several critical issues that we believe merit immediate focus.
The issues and challenges facing our region include economic development, fire safety and timber management, Forest Service management challenges, Necessary Small School funding, educational resources, water quality, hydroelectric utilization, recreation access, oxygen production and carbon sequestration, PG&E land divestiture program, agricultural needs, development patterns and land use issues. All of these issues will impact the future on the Western Slope for generations to come. We have been having a series of discussions with a wide variety of different organizations including environmental, business groups, farmers, timber concerns, foster care providers, social justice advocates, builders, arts organizations, anti-development coalitions, river restoration groups, land trusts, and lots of everyday folks, and a rare opportunity for consensus and collaboration seems tantalizingly close at hand.
The initial program that the group is focusing on we call “Fostering Industry”. Following the model of Pride Industries (a company based in Roseville, CA who creates job training and employment opportunities for the handicapped) WSCG begin to envision a self-sustaining “MBA” program for post-foster care youth that engages and mentors them in business management and in the economic opportunities of the Western Slope. Just some of the opportunities for business enterprises on the Western Slope include sustainable logging, recreation tourism, conventions and retreats, snowplay/snowpark, guided recreation, and construction and development – not to mention and all the trades and occupations needed to support these industries.
We have initiated conversations with Sierra College about getting involved in a degree program where “on the job training” is combined with classroom instruction in addition to specialized programs in non-violent communication and life skills. Chef Jeff the former crack dealer, now Executive Chef of the Cafe Bellagio in Las Vegas, has said that the hardest thing he had to do during his transition to “going legit” was learning how to smile. A professional environment where these youth have a boss who's job description includes teaching these “soft” skills, so necessary for success, is exciting and promising. Add the fact that the program would generate revenue from various sources including earned income, education grants, scholarships, and transitional assistance funds, and there is a real chance to provide hope and promise to these kids desperately in need of a break.
One of the most underutilized resources in our community is the under-served post-foster care youth. This is an extremely vulnerable population that is as likely to be unemployed than to graduate high school, and 84% became parents themselves within 18 months of leaving foster care. Studies have proved how this population can thrive if giving proper attention and guidance.
We seek to fundamentally rethink development and community planning comprehensively and systemically. Part of what we want to pursue is radical efficiencies in the use of natural resources for all development projects. The first Industrial Revolution was about the efficient use of labor, the next will be the efficient use of natural resources. If we can design communities to use a small fraction of the resources of older style developments, then as resource costs and challenges increase these new communities will be richer and more sustainable.
The visionary financier Alfred Lee Loomis created the research and development facility, Tuxedo Park, that developed a working radar system in a time frame that no one thought possible and defeated the Nazi U-Boat menace in the Atlantic, thus turning the tide of WW-II. Our country needs a Tuxedo Park today for resource efficient, and carbon free technologies. With the “blank slate” that is the Western Slope serving as a working laboratory in conjunction with the great Universities' of this State providing the intellectual muscle, the Western Slope has a chance to become a “Silicon Valley” for resource efficient technology – with all of the associated businesses that would flock to the area just to be close to the best thinking in this rapidly growing sector of our economy.
Although the Western Slope Community Group is interested in doing good, we actively seek to do well too. One of the systemic ideas at the core of the group is the concept of Incorporated Democracy. Our goal is to create a central company to drive this development that is “high tech” in its organizational structure. Using the best thinking in organizational and group behavior we will utilize the theories of “judgment aggregation” and the “Jury Theorum” of the Marquis de Condorcet; the “Puzzle Theory” of UC Santa Cruz professor Elliot Aronson (that shows how to design organizations to forge culturally and socio-economically diverse groups into effective teams); the biological principals of the “Evolution of Cooperation” and “reciprocal altruism”; as well as, the “genius” of American style democracy, with checks and balances on power, branches of governance, strong, accountable, elected leadership, all mixed with a health cynicism for centralized power. The goal of all of this is the creation of a strong, profitable corporation that has a broad distribution of benefits for the community that invests their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor to build it. We call this company the Nisenan Valley Group and its first project is the building of an event and retreat facility at Shinneyboo Creek Cabin Resort.
This “community of capitalists” will take on the general social challenge of post-foster care youth, but at the same time will be fully engaged in creating the wealth needed to address the quality of life issues of its population including: health care; education; saving for retirement; managing the environment for abundance; nurturing art and culture; community and spirituality; and the pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness.
The core beliefs of the group are centered around the historically conservative values of this great nation – self-sufficiency, small government, low taxation, local control, and self reliance as the only sustainable building blocks to a healthy and free nation.
These challenging times require inter-dependent, systemic thinking and we ask you, the Honorable Congressman Thomas McClintock, to use the power of your mighty office to help us.
With Hope and Determination,
Representative of the Western Slope Community Group
4230 Douglas Blvd. Suite 200
Granite Bay, CA 95746
April 23, 2009
Re: Systemic Resource Analysis of the Western Slope of the Central High Sierra
Dear Tom,
It has been said that “failing to plan is planning to fail”. The Western Slope of the Central High Sierra is an incredibly resource rich region facing daunting challenges. What will the Western Slope look like in 30 years?
A group of dedicated citizens from Placer and Nevada counties have been meeting to discuss these issues and have formed the Western Slope Community Group in order to begin an informal process of brainstorming solutions. Our belief is that addressed in isolation these issues will be difficult, if not impossible, to solve. The traditional “silo” method of planning will not work in this world of competing and often contradictory interest groups, agendas, and limited resources. However, exciting inter-dependencies are possible when we begin to apply “systems analysis” to the challenges of our region. We have identified several critical issues that we believe merit immediate focus.
The issues and challenges facing our region include economic development, fire safety and timber management, Forest Service management challenges, Necessary Small School funding, educational resources, water quality, hydroelectric utilization, recreation access, oxygen production and carbon sequestration, PG&E land divestiture program, agricultural needs, development patterns and land use issues. All of these issues will impact the future on the Western Slope for generations to come. We have been having a series of discussions with a wide variety of different organizations including environmental, business groups, farmers, timber concerns, foster care providers, social justice advocates, builders, arts organizations, anti-development coalitions, river restoration groups, land trusts, and lots of everyday folks, and a rare opportunity for consensus and collaboration seems tantalizingly close at hand.
The initial program that the group is focusing on we call “Fostering Industry”. Following the model of Pride Industries (a company based in Roseville, CA who creates job training and employment opportunities for the handicapped) WSCG begin to envision a self-sustaining “MBA” program for post-foster care youth that engages and mentors them in business management and in the economic opportunities of the Western Slope. Just some of the opportunities for business enterprises on the Western Slope include sustainable logging, recreation tourism, conventions and retreats, snowplay/snowpark, guided recreation, and construction and development – not to mention and all the trades and occupations needed to support these industries.
We have initiated conversations with Sierra College about getting involved in a degree program where “on the job training” is combined with classroom instruction in addition to specialized programs in non-violent communication and life skills. Chef Jeff the former crack dealer, now Executive Chef of the Cafe Bellagio in Las Vegas, has said that the hardest thing he had to do during his transition to “going legit” was learning how to smile. A professional environment where these youth have a boss who's job description includes teaching these “soft” skills, so necessary for success, is exciting and promising. Add the fact that the program would generate revenue from various sources including earned income, education grants, scholarships, and transitional assistance funds, and there is a real chance to provide hope and promise to these kids desperately in need of a break.
One of the most underutilized resources in our community is the under-served post-foster care youth. This is an extremely vulnerable population that is as likely to be unemployed than to graduate high school, and 84% became parents themselves within 18 months of leaving foster care. Studies have proved how this population can thrive if giving proper attention and guidance.
We seek to fundamentally rethink development and community planning comprehensively and systemically. Part of what we want to pursue is radical efficiencies in the use of natural resources for all development projects. The first Industrial Revolution was about the efficient use of labor, the next will be the efficient use of natural resources. If we can design communities to use a small fraction of the resources of older style developments, then as resource costs and challenges increase these new communities will be richer and more sustainable.
The visionary financier Alfred Lee Loomis created the research and development facility, Tuxedo Park, that developed a working radar system in a time frame that no one thought possible and defeated the Nazi U-Boat menace in the Atlantic, thus turning the tide of WW-II. Our country needs a Tuxedo Park today for resource efficient, and carbon free technologies. With the “blank slate” that is the Western Slope serving as a working laboratory in conjunction with the great Universities' of this State providing the intellectual muscle, the Western Slope has a chance to become a “Silicon Valley” for resource efficient technology – with all of the associated businesses that would flock to the area just to be close to the best thinking in this rapidly growing sector of our economy.
Although the Western Slope Community Group is interested in doing good, we actively seek to do well too. One of the systemic ideas at the core of the group is the concept of Incorporated Democracy. Our goal is to create a central company to drive this development that is “high tech” in its organizational structure. Using the best thinking in organizational and group behavior we will utilize the theories of “judgment aggregation” and the “Jury Theorum” of the Marquis de Condorcet; the “Puzzle Theory” of UC Santa Cruz professor Elliot Aronson (that shows how to design organizations to forge culturally and socio-economically diverse groups into effective teams); the biological principals of the “Evolution of Cooperation” and “reciprocal altruism”; as well as, the “genius” of American style democracy, with checks and balances on power, branches of governance, strong, accountable, elected leadership, all mixed with a health cynicism for centralized power. The goal of all of this is the creation of a strong, profitable corporation that has a broad distribution of benefits for the community that invests their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor to build it. We call this company the Nisenan Valley Group and its first project is the building of an event and retreat facility at Shinneyboo Creek Cabin Resort.
This “community of capitalists” will take on the general social challenge of post-foster care youth, but at the same time will be fully engaged in creating the wealth needed to address the quality of life issues of its population including: health care; education; saving for retirement; managing the environment for abundance; nurturing art and culture; community and spirituality; and the pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness.
The core beliefs of the group are centered around the historically conservative values of this great nation – self-sufficiency, small government, low taxation, local control, and self reliance as the only sustainable building blocks to a healthy and free nation.
These challenging times require inter-dependent, systemic thinking and we ask you, the Honorable Congressman Thomas McClintock, to use the power of your mighty office to help us.
With Hope and Determination,
Representative of the Western Slope Community Group
4/27/09
Most of the snow is gone. Spring is here. You normally stay in 5 and I will put you there.
We had a great meeting on site about Interdependence Day on the 10th and 11th of July. We also got into some specifics about Nisenan Valley Group, the first policorp. We seem to have the makings of a development company and a music production company. We need to work out the deal for transitioning from the monarchy that is Shinneyboo Creek to the policorp of Nisenan Valley Group. One thing I am looking at is the leasing of Shinneyboo to the Nisenan and the granting of a first right of refusal option to the Group to purchase the Boo. This would be a way for Nisenan to capture the effects of cooperation and insure that the time and effort invested does not simply inure to me as an individual.
Lots to talk about when you get here.
We had a great meeting on site about Interdependence Day on the 10th and 11th of July. We also got into some specifics about Nisenan Valley Group, the first policorp. We seem to have the makings of a development company and a music production company. We need to work out the deal for transitioning from the monarchy that is Shinneyboo Creek to the policorp of Nisenan Valley Group. One thing I am looking at is the leasing of Shinneyboo to the Nisenan and the granting of a first right of refusal option to the Group to purchase the Boo. This would be a way for Nisenan to capture the effects of cooperation and insure that the time and effort invested does not simply inure to me as an individual.
Lots to talk about when you get here.
Saturday, April 11, 2009
4/9/09
Yes, I have. I have also thought of the Ashoka Foundation. My friend from school, xxxx xxxxxxxx was funded by Soros. I am not sure how I would go about that. Thank you for your insight. It is very useful.
Logos, Ethos and Pathos shall be my three musketeers. I very much believe that the ethics of the policorp will need to be firmly rooted in the ethical traditions of the great democracies. I believe that the only way for a complex, interdependent, economic structure to function efficiently is if great amounts of time and resources are not wasted by individuals having to protect themselves from greed and dishonesty. What is _actually_ hopelessly naive is the belief that we any have any chance of economic renewal if the growing prevailing ethos of "dog eat dog" takes hold. It is counter to evolutionary history. Reciprocal Altruism was an absolute necessity to a soft tissued organism without fangs and claws. A sense of justice has been proven to be hard coded into our very DNA because of the evolutionary imperative of cooperation.
The emotional pull for me is the absolute dread I feel for the world I am leaving to my children. I have actually entertained the thought of sacrificing my marriage and my relationship with my children in order to attempt to secure a more abundant and just society for them to inherit, just as I would place myself in harm's way to protect them. Fortunately, or maybe unfortunately, I am too selfish in my need to be with them as much as possible to ever take such drastic action for an idea. Although, I am grateful that Benjamin Franklin and John Adams made such personal sacrifices for me. Even though they could have been said to be great fathers of our nation, they were not such great fathers to their own children.
I also recently saw a 60 Minutes piece on the closing of the Las Vegas Oncology ward and the actual death sentence that the closure was to many cancer patients without insurance. One retire security guard, when asked what he would do without the chemotherapy he need, said "die peacefully." That this is the fate of people who worked hard and played by the rules in this "greatest country on earth" is a nation shame and an outrage.
I feel that there is a sense of outrage and disgust growing in this country, that if not given positive constructive solutions will turn in on ourselves. Let us not forget those people in America who stood on bridges in Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina with shotguns to stop desperate refugees from seeking safe haven in their town. Our vaulted social contract is paper thin, and we may find that not everyone has the resignation of that gentle security guard in Las Vegas.
Michael Rogers
“Great things are wanting to be done.” -- John Adams, 2nd President of the United States
xxxxx xxxxxxxx wrote:
> Have you ever thought of writing this proposal to George Soros's of
> Foundation? I wonder if you could actually get funding for developing
> this (public speaking,workshops, publishing,...)
>
> Previously you mentioned the squirrel running 3 times around the tree,
> the ancient Greeks and the need for shaping your thoughts (the tree).
> Now you speak finding motivation. Back to the ancient Greeks and
> motivation: Beside logos - the logic you mentioned, ethos (ethics - a
> call to principles) and pathos (an emotional pull) are needed. You
> have stated ehical considerations - making them more explicit - how
> doing the right thing is more productive or rewarding in the long run
> - is necessary. The emotional pull needs to be thought out more.
>
> My two cents for the day. May you stumble upon better change!
>
> xxxxx
King George did not willingly allow democracy to blossom in the colonies. It would require a concerted effort to create from scratch, or purchase and transform existing companies. But unlike the democratization of governments, armed rebellion is not required. Much more difficult is the finding of the internal motivation to organize without the assistance of the rally cry of an external enemy.
There are only two ways to start a company -- as an entrepreneur or as a financier. Some entrepreneurs have been convinced to sell their companies to ESOPS for the tax advantages, but by and large an entrepreneur who has worked 80 hour a week for years, for less money sometimes than their employees, deserves everything that they are able to reap from their company. So, starting policorps as financiers is the only logical method. You would either need to find large investors (who I believe would have an interest in investing in self regulating companies having been recently burned so badly by the excesses of ponzi capitalism) or lots of small investors who aggregate their capital.
I have developed a method for funding a policorp that takes advantage of the aggregation of capital of a multi-level marketing structure (but used for good not evil). Conceivably 10,000 people investing $50 per month (come on -- start your own business for only $600 per year?) would generate $500,000 per month in salaries for the initial staff. An additional $75 per month investment would generate $10,000,000 per year to begin acquiring capital assets that could be put to productive wealth producing use. The initial start up staff would have the job to conceive, organize, plan, and lobby for the development and implementation of a business plan the goal of which would be the hiring of the other "citizens" as the company required them and could support their base salary needs. This initial start up capital could be leveraged with municipal bond measures that would used to build radically resource efficient communities so that wealth was kept working in the community and not exported out to Houston and Saudi Arabia. Like bonds are used to build auto-centric subdivisions, in a resource efficient community a portion of the bond would be paid back by the sale of individual units of the development -- it is a tried and true financing method that is just tweaked a little.
By simply organizing the market power of the 10,000, a bank, a large food distribution company, all sorts of retail stores, and a variety of other businesses could be started. The working partners running these economic "colonies" would have the independence of front line action to take care of customers and deal the with the day to day running of the company, but be interdependent in the sense that their capital would come from the larger policorp and there would be economies of scale with one human resource department, one healthcare plan, one accounting and finance department, one maintenance team, etc. First we take the power of our purse back and then we "hire" people away from their "day jobs" as resources allow.
Also, as we begin to act together to manage our resource efficiency, we begin lowering the cost of living in the community by, for instance, buying food in bulk from local farmers instead of in pre-packeted microwave pouches that travel an average of 1,500 miles to get to your plate. The cost might be the same, but the resources are going into hiring cooks to prepare meals instead of trucking and packaging with the benefit of increased convenience and nutrition. The cooks money is more likely to stay working in the community than is the money paid for trucking and packaging.
I might have to stand out on the street corner giving out the "Return to Common Sense", but hopefully people will see the inevitable logic of Incorporated Democracy and it will take off like the 100 monkey theory postulates. I think it could be a block buster book that could be at least as popular as "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People." And like that book, and "Atlas Shrugged", the book could be used to support a marketing juggernaut of speeches, meetings, and seminars that attempted to take people intrigued and bring them into an interdependent, successful economic community.
My project is the decidedly un-sexy idea of the evolution of organizational structures. My study of the evolution of cooperation has led me to believe that the mechanisms at play in this second tread of the evolutionary story, that runs concurrent to the traditional "dog-eat-dog" view, have immediate applicability to our current crises . It goes something like this -- in order to keep free riders from taking all the benefits of cooperation, and therefore creating a barrier to cooperation, it is necessary in designing human organizational structures to insure that cooperators are able to capture the effects of cooperation.
We did this 230 years ago with governments, where we designed American Democracy to have checks and balances on power, branches of government, and elected/accountable leadership in order to insure that those who gained power in our political democracy could be removed if they became free riders. But now governments are a declining power and corporations are ascendant. 2007 was the first time in human history that of the 100 largest economies in the world, more than half are now corporations not traditional governments. It is hopeless naive to base an economic system, as our current one is, on the hope that leaders will do what is right.
I have attached some of the pieces that include an effort to explain the evolution of cooperation piece. Thanks for your interest. I should get back to running my business.
With hope and determination,
Michael Rogers
“Great things are wanting to be done.” -- John Adams, 2nd President of the United States
xxxxx xxxxxxxx wrote:
> Thank you.
>
> Questions that popped up immediately:
>
> Why or how would corporate leaders be interested in doing anything right?
>
> Corporations use and have been using governments in order to get some
> free rides;
> why would they change?
>
> Who would be in the first circle of recipients of this booklet? How
> would they be attracted?
>
> And, unrelated to above, what a beautiful place(s) you have or manage
> - lovely. I was very near there in 1998, just west, close to the
> 20/80 junction.
>
> Yours from a very different place, Shrewsbury, where the first English
> parliament met with both houses, but long before that, where the
> Romans decided to build a settlement on the land inside a horsehoe
> shape of a river.
>
> Tell me more about your study of the evolution of cooperation, before
> the summer rush on cabin renting.
>
> cheers (as everyone says here)
> xxxxx
>
> On 4/9/09, Evolutionary wrote:
>
>> My project is the decidedly un-sexy idea of the evolution of organizational
>> structures. My study of the evolution of cooperation has led me to believe
>> that the mechanisms at play in this second tread of the evolutionary story,
>> that runs concurrent to the traditional "dog-eat-dog" view, have immediate
>> applicability to our current crises . It goes something like this -- in
>> order to keep free riders from taking all the benefits of cooperation, and
>> therefore creating a barrier to cooperation, it is necessary in designing
>> human organizational structures to insure that cooperators are able to
>> capture the effects of cooperation.
>>
>> We did this 230 years ago with governments, where we designed American
>> Democracy to have checks and balances on power, branches of government, and
>> elected/accountable leadership in order to insure that those who gained
>> power in our political democracy could be removed if they became free
>> riders. But now governments are a declining power and corporations are
>> ascendant. 2007 was the first time in human history that of the 100 largest
>> economies in the world, more than half are now corporations not traditional
>> governments. It is hopeless naive to base an economic system, as our current
>> one is, on the hope that leaders will do what is right.
>>
>> This latest implosion of ponzi capitalism only exposes the urgent need for
>> self regulating economic structures because our society is so dependent on
>> multinational corporations. Incorporated Democracy is the cure to a vast
>> myriad of social ills, and in it lies the rebirth of community and broad
>> prosperity.
>>
>> Michael Rogers
>>
>> “Great things are wanting to be done.” -- John Adams, 2nd President of the
>> United States
>>
>>
>>
>> XXXXXXXX wrote:
>>
>>
>>> ** CRAIGSLIST ADVISORY --- AVOID SCAMS BY DEALING LOCALLY
>>> ** Avoid: wiring money, cross-border deals, work-at-home
>>> ** Beware: cashier checks, money orders, escrow, shipping
>>> ** More Info: http://www.craigslist.org/about/scams.html
>>>
>>> Tell me more. I'm curious, but need to know more about the content.
>>>
>>> I'm currently in England, finishing up a book project. I will be returning
>>>
>> to California in a month or so.
>>
>>> I look forward to hearing about your brochure idea.
>>>
Logos, Ethos and Pathos shall be my three musketeers. I very much believe that the ethics of the policorp will need to be firmly rooted in the ethical traditions of the great democracies. I believe that the only way for a complex, interdependent, economic structure to function efficiently is if great amounts of time and resources are not wasted by individuals having to protect themselves from greed and dishonesty. What is _actually_ hopelessly naive is the belief that we any have any chance of economic renewal if the growing prevailing ethos of "dog eat dog" takes hold. It is counter to evolutionary history. Reciprocal Altruism was an absolute necessity to a soft tissued organism without fangs and claws. A sense of justice has been proven to be hard coded into our very DNA because of the evolutionary imperative of cooperation.
The emotional pull for me is the absolute dread I feel for the world I am leaving to my children. I have actually entertained the thought of sacrificing my marriage and my relationship with my children in order to attempt to secure a more abundant and just society for them to inherit, just as I would place myself in harm's way to protect them. Fortunately, or maybe unfortunately, I am too selfish in my need to be with them as much as possible to ever take such drastic action for an idea. Although, I am grateful that Benjamin Franklin and John Adams made such personal sacrifices for me. Even though they could have been said to be great fathers of our nation, they were not such great fathers to their own children.
I also recently saw a 60 Minutes piece on the closing of the Las Vegas Oncology ward and the actual death sentence that the closure was to many cancer patients without insurance. One retire security guard, when asked what he would do without the chemotherapy he need, said "die peacefully." That this is the fate of people who worked hard and played by the rules in this "greatest country on earth" is a nation shame and an outrage.
I feel that there is a sense of outrage and disgust growing in this country, that if not given positive constructive solutions will turn in on ourselves. Let us not forget those people in America who stood on bridges in Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina with shotguns to stop desperate refugees from seeking safe haven in their town. Our vaulted social contract is paper thin, and we may find that not everyone has the resignation of that gentle security guard in Las Vegas.
Michael Rogers
“Great things are wanting to be done.” -- John Adams, 2nd President of the United States
xxxxx xxxxxxxx wrote:
> Have you ever thought of writing this proposal to George Soros's of
> Foundation? I wonder if you could actually get funding for developing
> this (public speaking,workshops, publishing,...)
>
> Previously you mentioned the squirrel running 3 times around the tree,
> the ancient Greeks and the need for shaping your thoughts (the tree).
> Now you speak finding motivation. Back to the ancient Greeks and
> motivation: Beside logos - the logic you mentioned, ethos (ethics - a
> call to principles) and pathos (an emotional pull) are needed. You
> have stated ehical considerations - making them more explicit - how
> doing the right thing is more productive or rewarding in the long run
> - is necessary. The emotional pull needs to be thought out more.
>
> My two cents for the day. May you stumble upon better change!
>
> xxxxx
King George did not willingly allow democracy to blossom in the colonies. It would require a concerted effort to create from scratch, or purchase and transform existing companies. But unlike the democratization of governments, armed rebellion is not required. Much more difficult is the finding of the internal motivation to organize without the assistance of the rally cry of an external enemy.
There are only two ways to start a company -- as an entrepreneur or as a financier. Some entrepreneurs have been convinced to sell their companies to ESOPS for the tax advantages, but by and large an entrepreneur who has worked 80 hour a week for years, for less money sometimes than their employees, deserves everything that they are able to reap from their company. So, starting policorps as financiers is the only logical method. You would either need to find large investors (who I believe would have an interest in investing in self regulating companies having been recently burned so badly by the excesses of ponzi capitalism) or lots of small investors who aggregate their capital.
I have developed a method for funding a policorp that takes advantage of the aggregation of capital of a multi-level marketing structure (but used for good not evil). Conceivably 10,000 people investing $50 per month (come on -- start your own business for only $600 per year?) would generate $500,000 per month in salaries for the initial staff. An additional $75 per month investment would generate $10,000,000 per year to begin acquiring capital assets that could be put to productive wealth producing use. The initial start up staff would have the job to conceive, organize, plan, and lobby for the development and implementation of a business plan the goal of which would be the hiring of the other "citizens" as the company required them and could support their base salary needs. This initial start up capital could be leveraged with municipal bond measures that would used to build radically resource efficient communities so that wealth was kept working in the community and not exported out to Houston and Saudi Arabia. Like bonds are used to build auto-centric subdivisions, in a resource efficient community a portion of the bond would be paid back by the sale of individual units of the development -- it is a tried and true financing method that is just tweaked a little.
By simply organizing the market power of the 10,000, a bank, a large food distribution company, all sorts of retail stores, and a variety of other businesses could be started. The working partners running these economic "colonies" would have the independence of front line action to take care of customers and deal the with the day to day running of the company, but be interdependent in the sense that their capital would come from the larger policorp and there would be economies of scale with one human resource department, one healthcare plan, one accounting and finance department, one maintenance team, etc. First we take the power of our purse back and then we "hire" people away from their "day jobs" as resources allow.
Also, as we begin to act together to manage our resource efficiency, we begin lowering the cost of living in the community by, for instance, buying food in bulk from local farmers instead of in pre-packeted microwave pouches that travel an average of 1,500 miles to get to your plate. The cost might be the same, but the resources are going into hiring cooks to prepare meals instead of trucking and packaging with the benefit of increased convenience and nutrition. The cooks money is more likely to stay working in the community than is the money paid for trucking and packaging.
I might have to stand out on the street corner giving out the "Return to Common Sense", but hopefully people will see the inevitable logic of Incorporated Democracy and it will take off like the 100 monkey theory postulates. I think it could be a block buster book that could be at least as popular as "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People." And like that book, and "Atlas Shrugged", the book could be used to support a marketing juggernaut of speeches, meetings, and seminars that attempted to take people intrigued and bring them into an interdependent, successful economic community.
My project is the decidedly un-sexy idea of the evolution of organizational structures. My study of the evolution of cooperation has led me to believe that the mechanisms at play in this second tread of the evolutionary story, that runs concurrent to the traditional "dog-eat-dog" view, have immediate applicability to our current crises . It goes something like this -- in order to keep free riders from taking all the benefits of cooperation, and therefore creating a barrier to cooperation, it is necessary in designing human organizational structures to insure that cooperators are able to capture the effects of cooperation.
We did this 230 years ago with governments, where we designed American Democracy to have checks and balances on power, branches of government, and elected/accountable leadership in order to insure that those who gained power in our political democracy could be removed if they became free riders. But now governments are a declining power and corporations are ascendant. 2007 was the first time in human history that of the 100 largest economies in the world, more than half are now corporations not traditional governments. It is hopeless naive to base an economic system, as our current one is, on the hope that leaders will do what is right.
I have attached some of the pieces that include an effort to explain the evolution of cooperation piece. Thanks for your interest. I should get back to running my business.
With hope and determination,
Michael Rogers
“Great things are wanting to be done.” -- John Adams, 2nd President of the United States
xxxxx xxxxxxxx wrote:
> Thank you.
>
> Questions that popped up immediately:
>
> Why or how would corporate leaders be interested in doing anything right?
>
> Corporations use and have been using governments in order to get some
> free rides;
> why would they change?
>
> Who would be in the first circle of recipients of this booklet? How
> would they be attracted?
>
> And, unrelated to above, what a beautiful place(s) you have or manage
> - lovely. I was very near there in 1998, just west, close to the
> 20/80 junction.
>
> Yours from a very different place, Shrewsbury, where the first English
> parliament met with both houses, but long before that, where the
> Romans decided to build a settlement on the land inside a horsehoe
> shape of a river.
>
> Tell me more about your study of the evolution of cooperation, before
> the summer rush on cabin renting.
>
> cheers (as everyone says here)
> xxxxx
>
> On 4/9/09, Evolutionary wrote:
>
>> My project is the decidedly un-sexy idea of the evolution of organizational
>> structures. My study of the evolution of cooperation has led me to believe
>> that the mechanisms at play in this second tread of the evolutionary story,
>> that runs concurrent to the traditional "dog-eat-dog" view, have immediate
>> applicability to our current crises . It goes something like this -- in
>> order to keep free riders from taking all the benefits of cooperation, and
>> therefore creating a barrier to cooperation, it is necessary in designing
>> human organizational structures to insure that cooperators are able to
>> capture the effects of cooperation.
>>
>> We did this 230 years ago with governments, where we designed American
>> Democracy to have checks and balances on power, branches of government, and
>> elected/accountable leadership in order to insure that those who gained
>> power in our political democracy could be removed if they became free
>> riders. But now governments are a declining power and corporations are
>> ascendant. 2007 was the first time in human history that of the 100 largest
>> economies in the world, more than half are now corporations not traditional
>> governments. It is hopeless naive to base an economic system, as our current
>> one is, on the hope that leaders will do what is right.
>>
>> This latest implosion of ponzi capitalism only exposes the urgent need for
>> self regulating economic structures because our society is so dependent on
>> multinational corporations. Incorporated Democracy is the cure to a vast
>> myriad of social ills, and in it lies the rebirth of community and broad
>> prosperity.
>>
>> Michael Rogers
>>
>> “Great things are wanting to be done.” -- John Adams, 2nd President of the
>> United States
>>
>>
>>
>> XXXXXXXX wrote:
>>
>>
>>> ** CRAIGSLIST ADVISORY --- AVOID SCAMS BY DEALING LOCALLY
>>> ** Avoid: wiring money, cross-border deals, work-at-home
>>> ** Beware: cashier checks, money orders, escrow, shipping
>>> ** More Info: http://www.craigslist.org/about/scams.html
>>>
>>> Tell me more. I'm curious, but need to know more about the content.
>>>
>>> I'm currently in England, finishing up a book project. I will be returning
>>>
>> to California in a month or so.
>>
>>> I look forward to hearing about your brochure idea.
>>>
4/9/09
Wikipedia
*"Socialism* refers to a broad set of economic theories of social organization advocating public or state ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods, and a society characterized by equality for all individuals, with a fair or egalitarian method of compensation.^[1] ^[2] "
Good god no! Government is a dying industry and cannot even manage itself much less a complex market economy. We are talking about distributed capitalism. Great leaders who create wealth should be handsomely compensated and lazy, free riders (CEOs included) should be banished into the wilderness. Capitalism is so great, everyone should be one. But our economy has become too complex to allow 15th century organizational structures to dominate any longer. No less that Warren Buffett has said "The idea that you hand over huge positions in society simply because someone came from the right womb - I just think it's almost un-American." And we are heading towards a country where the "American Dream" is a fantasy and the only people who are able to start things are those from "dynastic wealth". The age of the small business man is over, as increasing regulation falls disproportionally on to small businesses who do not have the resources to manage those regulator burdens. As opportunity becomes further out of reach to bright, hardworking Americans, it will lead to a radicalized society with young people ready to tear down what exists without anything equally complex to replace it.
Incorporated Democracy is going to unshackle the corporate structure because people will come to see that self regulating corporations can be deregulated and that they will step up to take on a lot of the social issues that are being heaped on government. So that we can achieve the small "c" conservative vision of smaller government and an open market. It puts the focus on the entities which create and generate wealth, instead of entities (government) that are basic service organizations down stream of wealth generation. Incorporated Democracy is about unleashing the engine of (self regulating) capitalism to save the world.
Michael Rogers
“Great things are wanting to be done.” -- John Adams, 2nd President of the United States
XXXX XXXXX wrote:
> Incentivized socialism?
>
>
> On 4/9/09 12:16 PM, "Shinneyboo Creek Cabins" wrote:
>
> *My tree is the decidedly un-sexy idea of the evolution of
> organizational structures. My study of the evolution of
> cooperation has
> led me to identify the mechanisms at play in this second tread of the
> evolutionary story that runs concurrent to the traditional
> "dog-eat-dog"
> view. It goes like this -- in order to keep free riders from
> taking all
> the benefits of cooperation, and therefore creating a barrier to
> cooperation, it is necessary in designing human organizational
> structures to insure that cooperators are able to capture the
> effects of
> cooperation.
>
> We did this 230 years ago with governments, where we designed American
> Democracy to have checks and balances on power, branches of
> government,
> and elected/accountable leadership in order to insure that those who
> gained power in our political democracy could be removed if they
> became
> free riders. But now governments are a declining power and
> corporations
> are ascendant. 2007 was the first time in human history that of
> the 100
> largest economies in the world, more than half are now
> corporations not
> traditional governments. **It is hopeless naive to base an economic
> system, as our current one is, on the hope that leaders will do
> what is
> right.*
> *
> This latest implosion of ponzi capitalism only exposes the urgent need
> for self regulating economic structures because our society is so
> dependent on multinational corporations. Incorporated Democracy is the
> cure to a vast myriad of social ills.
> *
>
> Michael Rogers
>
> “Great things are wanting to be done.”
> -- John Adams, 2nd President of the United States
xxxx xxxxx wrote:
What is your tree?
XXXX XXXXX
Copywriter
*"Socialism* refers to a broad set of economic theories of social organization advocating public or state ownership and administration of the means of production
Good god no! Government is a dying industry and cannot even manage itself much less a complex market economy. We are talking about distributed capitalism. Great leaders who create wealth should be handsomely compensated and lazy, free riders (CEOs included) should be banished into the wilderness. Capitalism is so great, everyone should be one. But our economy has become too complex to allow 15th century organizational structures to dominate any longer. No less that Warren Buffett has said "The idea that you hand over huge positions in society simply because someone came from the right womb - I just think it's almost un-American." And we are heading towards a country where the "American Dream" is a fantasy and the only people who are able to start things are those from "dynastic wealth". The age of the small business man is over, as increasing regulation falls disproportionally on to small businesses who do not have the resources to manage those regulator burdens. As opportunity becomes further out of reach to bright, hardworking Americans, it will lead to a radicalized society with young people ready to tear down what exists without anything equally complex to replace it.
Incorporated Democracy is going to unshackle the corporate structure because people will come to see that self regulating corporations can be deregulated and that they will step up to take on a lot of the social issues that are being heaped on government. So that we can achieve the small "c" conservative vision of smaller government and an open market. It puts the focus on the entities which create and generate wealth, instead of entities (government) that are basic service organizations down stream of wealth generation. Incorporated Democracy is about unleashing the engine of (self regulating) capitalism to save the world.
Michael Rogers
“Great things are wanting to be done.” -- John Adams, 2nd President of the United States
XXXX XXXXX wrote:
> Incentivized socialism?
>
>
> On 4/9/09 12:16 PM, "Shinneyboo Creek Cabins"
>
> *My tree is the decidedly un-sexy idea of the evolution of
> organizational structures. My study of the evolution of
> cooperation has
> led me to identify the mechanisms at play in this second tread of the
> evolutionary story that runs concurrent to the traditional
> "dog-eat-dog"
> view. It goes like this -- in order to keep free riders from
> taking all
> the benefits of cooperation, and therefore creating a barrier to
> cooperation, it is necessary in designing human organizational
> structures to insure that cooperators are able to capture the
> effects of
> cooperation.
>
> We did this 230 years ago with governments, where we designed American
> Democracy to have checks and balances on power, branches of
> government,
> and elected/accountable leadership in order to insure that those who
> gained power in our political democracy could be removed if they
> became
> free riders. But now governments are a declining power and
> corporations
> are ascendant. 2007 was the first time in human history that of
> the 100
> largest economies in the world, more than half are now
> corporations not
> traditional governments. **It is hopeless naive to base an economic
> system, as our current one is, on the hope that leaders will do
> what is
> right.*
> *
> This latest implosion of ponzi capitalism only exposes the urgent need
> for self regulating economic structures because our society is so
> dependent on multinational corporations. Incorporated Democracy is the
> cure to a vast myriad of social ills.
> *
>
> Michael Rogers
>
> “Great things are wanting to be done.”
> -- John Adams, 2nd President of the United States
xxxx xxxxx wrote:
What is your tree?
XXXX XXXXX
Copywriter
4/9/09
My tree is the decidedly un-sexy idea of the evolution of organizational structures. My study of the evolution of cooperation has led me to identify the mechanisms at play in this second tread of the evolutionary story that runs concurrent to the traditional "dog-eat-dog" view. It goes like this -- in order to keep free riders from taking all the benefits of cooperation, and therefore creating a barrier to cooperation, it is necessary in designing human organizational structures to insure that cooperators are able to capture the effects of cooperation.
We did this 230 years ago with governments, where we designed American Democracy to have checks and balances on power, branches of government, and elected/accountable leadership in order to insure that those who gained power in our political democracy could be removed if they became free riders. But now governments are a declining power and corporations are ascendant. 2007 was the first time in human history that of the 100 largest economies in the world, more than half are now corporations not traditional governments. **It is hopeless naive to base an economic system, as our current one is, on the hope that leaders will do what is right.*
This latest implosion of ponzi capitalism only exposes the urgent need for self regulating economic structures because our society is so dependent on multinational corporations. Incorporated Democracy is the cure to a vast myriad of social ills.
We did this 230 years ago with governments, where we designed American Democracy to have checks and balances on power, branches of government, and elected/accountable leadership in order to insure that those who gained power in our political democracy could be removed if they became free riders. But now governments are a declining power and corporations are ascendant. 2007 was the first time in human history that of the 100 largest economies in the world, more than half are now corporations not traditional governments. **It is hopeless naive to base an economic system, as our current one is, on the hope that leaders will do what is right.*
This latest implosion of ponzi capitalism only exposes the urgent need for self regulating economic structures because our society is so dependent on multinational corporations. Incorporated Democracy is the cure to a vast myriad of social ills.
4/8/11
You are obviously giving a lot of thought to the structural problems of society and you are dead on with the potential of the internet.
Carl Jung once said that he was suspicious of people who dressed radically, because his ideas were so radical that he dressed as conservatively as possible so as to not make his ideas appear even more so. Incorporated Democracy is so transformative in my mind that I am trying to make it look as main stream, pro-business (democratic that is), and mom and apple pie as possible. And it is pro-corporate, unlike most progressive thought now days. Just as you cannot disparage government because there are monarchies, so too I believe that the corporate structure could be put to use to bring people together and provide a community based method of "hunting" our economic sustenance. I firmly believe that democratized corporations will no longer "colonialize" people, resources, and the natural bounty of the earth (or to a very lesser degree) and that the problem from which all these myriad symptoms derive is concentrated unaccountable, undemocratic, economic might. I don't believe that money is slavery, I believe it can be used to enslave, or liberate. It is a neutral medium that we imbue with good, or evil.
The Declaration of Interdependence was ratified on 7/7/7 by common patriots, all of whom I count as friends. We are trying to form a Policorp on the Western Slope of the High Sierra. A radically resource efficient (liberated) community of 10,000 people all of whom will be engaged in full throated democratic capitalism. We are struggling with how to aggregate capital in order to move the Policorp forward. First of all we need to organize colonies of citizens in the Northern California, Northern Nevada area who want to become a part of this evolution and are ready to tax themselves small amounts of money (their Starbuck's funds) and to begin organizing economically, politically, and socially to move the Nisenan Valley Group forward (Nisenan is our area's first people's name for themselves, which means "of us").
Our area colleges are a invaluable resource for the Evolution (I am firmly an evolutionary, not a revolutionary, as revolution is to me about tearing down and usually not having something as complex to replace it with, whereas evolution is about making the changes necessary to move forward in a better way -- although evolution needs the fervor and passion of revolution and is as urgent). The pamphlet would be used to organize and fund raise on area campuses and other locations and to draw people to dialectics on democracy. Most progressive movements start at colleges.
Carl Jung once said that he was suspicious of people who dressed radically, because his ideas were so radical that he dressed as conservatively as possible so as to not make his ideas appear even more so. Incorporated Democracy is so transformative in my mind that I am trying to make it look as main stream, pro-business (democratic that is), and mom and apple pie as possible. And it is pro-corporate, unlike most progressive thought now days. Just as you cannot disparage government because there are monarchies, so too I believe that the corporate structure could be put to use to bring people together and provide a community based method of "hunting" our economic sustenance. I firmly believe that democratized corporations will no longer "colonialize" people, resources, and the natural bounty of the earth (or to a very lesser degree) and that the problem from which all these myriad symptoms derive is concentrated unaccountable, undemocratic, economic might. I don't believe that money is slavery, I believe it can be used to enslave, or liberate. It is a neutral medium that we imbue with good, or evil.
The Declaration of Interdependence was ratified on 7/7/7 by common patriots, all of whom I count as friends. We are trying to form a Policorp on the Western Slope of the High Sierra. A radically resource efficient (liberated) community of 10,000 people all of whom will be engaged in full throated democratic capitalism. We are struggling with how to aggregate capital in order to move the Policorp forward. First of all we need to organize colonies of citizens in the Northern California, Northern Nevada area who want to become a part of this evolution and are ready to tax themselves small amounts of money (their Starbuck's funds) and to begin organizing economically, politically, and socially to move the Nisenan Valley Group forward (Nisenan is our area's first people's name for themselves, which means "of us").
Our area colleges are a invaluable resource for the Evolution (I am firmly an evolutionary, not a revolutionary, as revolution is to me about tearing down and usually not having something as complex to replace it with, whereas evolution is about making the changes necessary to move forward in a better way -- although evolution needs the fervor and passion of revolution and is as urgent). The pamphlet would be used to organize and fund raise on area campuses and other locations and to draw people to dialectics on democracy. Most progressive movements start at colleges.
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