Application to Join Commons Rising

Your organisational affiliations? (primary and secondary) *
SumPeople.org and The Commonteers. SumPeople is an aggregation platform
and The Commonteers is a social club where commonteers can meet and plan
coordinated attacks against the tendrils the Privateers have around our
common government, community, and economy. The Commonteers are also
committed to a campaign to reclaim the language of the commons and
redefine words correctly so that "noble" means greedy, violent,
uncaring, and self absorbed, whereas, "common" means hard working,
honest, reliable, and kind.

What is alive for you when you think of the commons? *
I fucking love that question. I am a commonteer. I fight for the right
of people to claim their rights to govern resources as a commons. I
have dedicated myself to stopping the privateers, at any turn, thus
seeking to converting them, through strength and love, to see the joys
of giving to, and investing in, the commons, and failing to do that to
marginalize their influence on the systems of the earth.

I am also, with a brilliant team, bringing into reality a global
economic commons that I believe can achieve the Alchemy of Non-Zero and
capture the "Greater-Than" quotation and build the largest economic
enterprise in the world as a decentralized but coordinated tribe of
friends hunting sustenance together to care for our families.

What are the skills/talents you bring to this group? *
Everything I have. My heart, my head, my Yale University Masters in
Administration, my 160 acres of land where I am building an ARC
(Awesomely Resourceful Community) designed to survive in style, my 30
years of engineering a new economic model to compete with Privateering
Capitalism -- with its foundations firmly rooted in the compost of the
mind of Elinor Ostrom, Game Theory, Coordination Theory, Reciprocal
Altruism, Judgment Aggregation, Complexity Theory, Systems Thinking, and
in the indigenous wisdom of the commons that reaches deep into our DNA.

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Pilgim