It's an idea that has been rolling around in my brain for a while. Every where I look I see an antiquated system that needs redone.
But who is going to do it?
Do we pass a law, force people's hands, steal from them, grease palms, build it and tell people for its their own good?
Government is a lagging indicator of society, literally the last people I want to design the future for my children.
Though I have my opinions on government and their role in people's lives (lol) my project is LARGELY apolitical. In fact, I would go as far as to say its ABOVE politics and is objectively closer to the "right way" of doing things than we are currently practicing as a society. In fact, I would hope to build a strong enough case for some things that they should be demanded and expected in a civilized society.
It's hard for me to precisely give a summary of what I want to write in this book but I would say a large chunk of it has to do with "Permaculture".
Though I said I want my project to be largely apolitical, there are some discussions that must be made. I personally am a "bottom-up" decentralization-supporting anarchist (buzzwords!) that believes systems that are existing that are said to help society may be part of the reason we are being held back.
It is my personal believe that some systems we use as a society DISCOURAGES resilience and ENCOURAGES dependency from a top-down centralized system prone to failure and bottlenecks.
This also manipulates the money supply and value as people are DISCOURAGED from actually creating value themselves and are ENCOURAGED to make things for others, leaving them little to barter with except money which itself is being manipulated. This creates an excessive value of acquiring that fiat.
Lots of money is made and lost just in the transactions - there are better ways but systems must be mindfully built to support it.
Some Topics:
- How people from Rural, Suburban, and Urban areas are using the same words but not talking about the same things. (There is a disconnect in language, can we overcome this?).
- Some people believe the only answer is to leave the city, some people think you need to fix where you are. I think both points are only reactive responses to the current situation, the real answer is neither (in my opinion, hopefully I will be able to lay that out in an easy to understand way).
- Food systems and how they are set up to discourage providing our own food
- Labor markets are largely controlled by their government - how does this hold people back?
- Can we recreate systems and resilient networks?
- Can we take things we have learned from crypto communities and networks to learn how people work together?
One topic that I hope I can answer is: Technology has done a great job of connecting us globally but disconnecting us locally. Can we rebuild these systems in a way that works for us locally?
Please follow me on my journey as I try and flesh these ideas out.
I hope to have a weekly stream on Vimm, Twitch, and Kick (EricWilson under all 3) where I discuss topics I am working on as I try and learn more to research for this project.
You can also follow me at Twitter.com/EricWilsonLive.
Ive also wrote on this topic before.
You should write it down, what's on your mind. I sympathize with that. Sometimes the problem I have is that there are so many topics I want to write about that I don't know what to write.
Technology and connectivity is a fascinating topic.
This has been something I have been chewing on for a while in my brain so I think this is a good motivator to organize it to speak effectively about it!
Good goal dude!
I'm not sure I understand how labor markets are controlled by government, but I'm excited to learn your thoughts.
Personally I'm super curious to how the future society turns out considering so many more extreme weather events hitting various parts of the world... I really do think that not enough people are really putting effort into societal resilience.
I hear some people saying that leaving cities is the only solution, but I assume those people are just very loud. I'd be curious if there's any data to actually see if this is a thing that's happening.
Yeah its a stretch for government influence with labor but there's ineed influence in which I believe there is unintended consequences, Ill be sure to hash it out.
I agree, societal resilience seems to be lost due to the lack of need for it - currently. But it is still a skill that shouldn't be lost and we can learn from it and even improve on it.
In regards to leaving, I think it's easier to build a small-scale project that you can effectively lessen the need for outside resources by starting with a relatively blank canvas rather than retrofit it within current urban environments. Thought I think it is noble and its obvious there is not enough food being produced within the city to sustain them, and anything to help is a good thing.
That being said, I think both are working within what they have available because there are not more efficient systems in place. I believe in surrounding yourself with solutions.
I think maybe in the 1950s, 40% of fruit and vegetables in the US came from home gardens...? Obviously the population was much smaller then, but we've also got better growing technology so I don't think it's impossible to get back to those kinds of numbers.
Thats a really good point, and something I am going to add to my notes to follow up on, thank you!
hey man, i see you are the owner of the disc golf community on hive. would it be cool if i designed a logo for the community?
Just saw this on my twitter lol
