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
Monday, April 27, 2009
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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