Everyday-creativity enhanced by technology

Where today we walk - we will dance and exercise in choreography.
When today we talk - we will sing and compose in constant live/improvisation mode.
Where high rise apartments are built palaces will grow.

On the limited number of party members

Without democracy:
A small vanguard party should lead the working class to carry out its own enslavement.

Indefinite period of transition

I have thought that I would put in an effort not to criticise some historical figures and get my hands dirty. However this seems too good to resist:
Where Stalin divided "full communism" from socialism and a necessary revolution to take one to there I think as an equivalent form the conception that he places a limitation on actually getting to full communism and extends the period of transition indefinitely. The goal is thus set at a much further point rather than being defined. What is to be achieved then becomes a set-back.
At once he becomes an anti-communist!
(Did that get me too involved in the subject and persona?) And that is a subject of another post.

FORMULATION OF WAR ON TERRORISM

Without exception every war includes in it an aspect of terror.*  So we might consider war as a synonym for terror and hence we would have the following formulation of the moniker in the title
Terror on terror. Is this real?! Who in their right  ( or left ) mind would care to think that this is possible. Terror cannot be overcome by terror without leaving a fully intact mechanism of terror behind. Then that system needs to be overcome and so on; what if this is a generative process where many terrors are formed and pollute the fabric of social space. The evidence is there through  the leaks and news, showing a part of our transformed fabric of reality.

*...media campaigns like the war on cancer are no exception - we are terrified by cancer

Classification of people

1. those who follow procedures if they are told what to do and idle if they do not have procedures
2. those who look for procedures and use them at will
3. those who are consciously selecting the best procedures to apply in a given situation
4. those who can modify procedures 
5. those who create new procedures based on a procedure
6. those who plan a system of procedures for whole communities 

These features of action are enough to create a perfect beehive or an ants' nest. People form empires with these rulemakers, ruletakers, and rulebreakers.

DIVIDE 

and then there are 

those who see their own problem solving and thinking as something that is subject of development(pruning and seeding and educating) and learning

they get a feedback loop going that allows them enjoyment from how their thinking progresses and insights made

I think there are other types in here as well but... other than the ones who love to share what they do and socialise with other types in collectivly inspiring eachother in the team...

It is perhaps better to see these as strategies activity and then group people by the intensity or frequency of using each strategy.

Exploiters and labourers or just free exchangers

Producers-consumers provides one framework in which to see grave exploitation and the injustice of forced condition of labour for low wages. In another framework we can see people as exchangers. Some exchange labour for wages others provide some of their capital for others' labour. While the latter seems much more neutral and less politically charged it has lost an aspect, one which we should not disregard. It is the aspect of freedom. Labour moves very slowly into a better position in a constant tug-o-war from contract to contract and always begins at a very low wage, while the entrepreneur can sack and rehire as long as there is a steady supply of the unemployed.

Cultural semantic burden in social change

The relationships between children-parents, workers-employers, younger and older in the church carry a load of semantics that is different and is difficult to synchronize in the movement from the initiator of change and those who are running an establishment. This is supported by the various cognitive fixations and can be seen as rigid. Democracy in the social sphere and Toyotism in microeconomics, systems where every member is part of the system's movement towards improvement is a flexible system. Rigid systems may have to pass away to be converted. But the result may well be just another form of rigid system or one that hypocritically calls itself flexible but actually continues to be rigid in a new form.

Each of the above scenes has a different load and power.

Flexible systems are likely to be more resilient in evolutionary terms.

Actual and Apparent in a partially Transparent System

What would happen in a Prisoner's Dilemma if what has been done actually is apparent only to some people only to some extent and that measure of transparency would vary from person to person? What if the opaque nature of the history of their previous actions would keep people in the dark?
Is this not a better way to see the world with its news distorted by propaganda, lies, public relations?
We enter a fuzzy system.

Were we thinking?

Where we thinking when the freedom of faith articles were signed by the United Nations? Where we thinking about the consequences of grouphate against one faith would be established along with calling any one of them extremist and then gathering forces around the world to attack them? Where we thinking that consequently the whole world becomes a target for their retaliations.

On Rights

In thinking, about whether the only right is the right to violence since it is the only one found in nature and hence 'natural,' a couple of counter theses spring up naturally. For humans and their conscious endeavours that bring about culture rights are nothing but an extension of nature itself. Secondly, phenomena of the mind - both logic and justice are prerequisite to any consideration of right. Because the rights need sense, while use of violence has in it no sense. Violent acquisition and enforcement by coercion are polar opposites to solving conflicts by reason that underlies, arbitration, trials, moderation and persuasion. Whereas a right to abstain from an attack against a person exists even among animals and any human hierarchical society, even though this social formation is often enforced by violence does not provide a nonviolent society.
If one was to analyse any need to justify this right to violence one would need to recourse to reason and having done so would need to resort to use other rights hence the right to violence cannot be a sole right.

Four skills for our emotions

Paul Ekman described how we need to learn as much as possible about our emotions. He then describes four skills.

1. Becoming aware of the impulse to act on an emotion, So one can choose if when and how to react.
2. Becoming aware of your running emotional reactions and choosing how to behave in the given situation.
3. Recognising the type and size of emotions 
4. How to respond in the most purposeful way.

Agile development for international relations

As agile works its wonders in software development as well as to some extent in family relations development it is only fitting to look at things on the large scale and see how development of nationstates may be enhanced by agile development methods. The insight here is that we might not have to look at nations as failed or developing but instead look at the relations between nations. To develop those relations should be at the core of mutual development and enhanced economies for the whole world. One potential problem is that while agile has pragmatic value but is still an ideology rather than based all on science of management.

http://netmap.wordpress.com/2011/09/29/agile-international-development/

Three moments of fantasy

First as a Pathology
No consciousness of the formation of fantasy, it may seem as the reality, or it could obscure the sense of reality.

Second as Illusion
While there is still no consciousness of the fantasy, it is therefore based on assumption of reality of this illusion, it is deliberately created to explain reality in a some frameworks. 

Third as Creativity
Fantasy is employed consciously in creative pursuits.

Bloody revolutions and nonviolent revolutions

While revolutions are an aspect of historical change and also a change of the form of economics it is an aspect of usurpation by war that seems of doubtful structure. If the best wars are those where soldiers do not fight then the best revolutions are the ones where power is exchanged without bloodletting. However the resulting civil war that counters the revolution and seems at first an integral part of the revolution at the same time makes this idea a difficult one to achieve. The more lives that are saved, the more effort is invested into organisation. The second difficulty is the already established form of revolution, where one side to a more or less extent copycats the previous themes.

Communists and extreme leftists have advocated violence.  However science shows that nonviolent struggle is twice as often effective as do violent struggles.

If violence was used to bring in a new form of society, that society may succumb to further internal conflicts that were congenital in its formation. This is a question that should be investigated.

Betrayal of the labour

The relationship of brotherhood among labourers is under question  when labour chooses to strike to improve their condition - they are digging themselves into further worry and dread and misery of capitalism accepting the system as it is, making sure that the shackles are ever faster, that the bond of wage-slavery perpetuates into the future. The better the conditions are the more the status qua is strengthened. The better the workers conditions get the more willing are they to fight in capitalist intra fights rather than for the emancipation point when all the people have a right to vote on issues of productions and use of the means of production.
This seems paradoxical as strikes that are organised as part of a spectacle of the general strikes can show a way towards a revolution. Summing up this yearning for a better life that has shown as an effective tool of social democrats, paradoxically could lead to a revolution.

Production of the mythology of competitive nature

Not all societies are hierarchies of competitive humans. For example hunter-gatherers. While it is exists in the relations of capitalist mode of production. It is missing in programmer lead companies. While the company itself ultimately is there to make money, it is not run by the managers or runs the mangers off the shopfloor in a worker lead coup. Again in the same scenery we have a formidable economic task of comparing the productivity of two programmers who are good or the programmer who is mediocre and the one who is excellent. One may produce very little but if the algorithms are sound they could weigh up thousands of times their amount of superficial code.

The Great Tranquility

People go about their business, regardless of the neoliberal, conservative doggy-dos. People too ashamed, to call for the no confidence. People who submit to the everyday pathology of militarism(military games, production of war scenarios). People who accept the deals fed to them. People whose gut instinct tells them that something is missing in the perspective that they see. People who see through a slit, a small sliver of the world. People who cannot put the worldview together. People whose reason does not give even a slightest sense of meaning. People who see nothing outside the tramlined destiny that is provided for them by the establishment. People who are taught and catered by the everpresent propaganda to dislike the different. People who do not know where they are. People who are constantly in a mild sense of disturbance. People who have no idea of how much they could achieve. Those people are in a state of tranquility spoon-fed by those who provide the Great Tranquility with how things are to appear to the people. A peaceful dream.

A real dream is that one day there is an awakening. And a further radical reduction of hostilities and aggression once furnished by the military elites can occur.

The tranquility forms as a the result of application of social pacifiers that are part of the control mechanisms of the power-elite.

When people are made to witness the brutality of torture as an acceptable event for the liberal democracy, a peaceful nightmare does fine for a dream. For any dream will now do.

Production of the mythology of job creation

Another one got debunked today!
Released through TED, then censored. In reality the capitalists create jobs in response to demand not because of altruism, but the profit motive.
When the elites get tax exemptions job creation should go up according to this myth. The numbers tell a different story however.

In Silence when the corporations march over us

I need more orders in my corporation. It is so well run I never see His words written, or spoken. Sometimes I make daily requests. But the response is always Silence. Sometimes I am in Silence. Then we are together. The only thing to recall then is that we are together even in times when I suffer. Fot that glimpse I am greatful.

This is my effort to have different views at what the worls is made of at one point commercialisation of innovation, at another a sweatshop. At one point it magnetises the clever at another it makes people so stressed they start to repeat without reflection as to effects and flow of what they do. Subsequently they begin to feel that they enjoy this and lose their powers of functional cognition.

Economic Indulgences

Today the very large international corporations begin to get "indulgences" from law. They are becoming superjudicial, exempted from legal reach. Why does the principle of Magna Carta have no effect here? Would this not inspire a similar popular action against the power-elite?

Paradox of communist-run-capitalism and capitalist-run-communism.

In the fog of the morning, in the shivers of the dusk a strange beast is roaring. Its core is the fire of guns, its lore is a bellicose rhetoric. 

In China communists run capitalist cities and special areas designated for business, they do it better than the established capitalists of the West, according to Zizek. Why not if the growth of economies is taken as an indication of such success?

The other fact is that amid this progress, it is the capitalist areas that run the communist areas with funding, and these areas have come to a lack of both funds and adequate recourse to sustainability.

Yet another aspect of the capitalists running the communist communes is the way that the world in its mostly liberal democratic politics makes room and even benefits from admitting their presence on the world's political scene. 

With public relations and marketing everything becomes profitable. For example the green capital is reduced by business interests new interests evolve to reduce this degradation of green capital.

When democratic socialists created a socialism in Scandinavia they did better than the soviet socialists in The Soviet Union.

Immersive immiserations

Immediate immoral impact of the actions of those who act for the consciousness of the class on the society in its dreams - aspirations towards the simulated beauty, or megalomanic power trips; are here to waken the society again and again towards a flowering of enlightenment. From manure to diamonds. A new morality forms. It keeps on washing the laundry or historical tapestries if you like, of the discourse of power.
With every Occupation, with every Spring, with every May.

Economic, social and cultural dimensions for class

Going slightly against the thesis that there are in fact three dimensions to class differences, it is to be observed that the elites should be further divided by how they use their wealth or in other words - what financial mechanics and  means-of-capital do they employ. For example to garner extra social capital the cultural elite can participate in protests against war. While the social-economic elites can make further economic gains by supporting conflicts and warmongering. As these are exactly opposite to each other we can see that the elites must contain different groups. It is also possible that one group works as a mask for the other, the shadow is masked by the cultural elite (Bono and Lennon, et al).

Another issue is the class of technical middle class that is in "social apathy" while some might have in their disposal large tools of social manipulation. For example Edward Bernays. In his book Propaganda he says "We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of." Do they have social capital or not?

Different struggles

There are many different historical struggles, between the sacral and the profane for example, between the producers and their competitors for an other instance. There is also a marked lack of true struggle between the less educated and the intelligentsia. There is on the other hand struggle between those who have social status and those who do not. There is struggle between humans and illnesses. Between races. Between ethnicities. Between ages. Between those with technologies and the respective have-nots.
Therefore the historical dynamics are not at its core just the struggles between the classes. Or there are perhaps several facets to the differences of class. If we introduce several axes then we could keep many of the features of class struggle.

Marx and development

Personal Mastery
Marx does not see things like personal mastery - development of the self. Yet it appears on a personal level and at a larger scale also at the level of a society. There is development as the education transforms people, as a result development of intellectual property and the economy develops with the technological progress. Revolution is not the only midwife of historical change.
In fact the opposite was what he observes: the horrors of soul-grinding effects of the division of labour and deskilling was visible all around. Development occurred mostly in the upper classes and there was no way to get a complete critique of capitalism that would include their dynamics of power.
On bbc.com 3rd of  April 2013, commenting on The Great British Class Survey :" The sociologists said these two groups[the precariat and the elite] at the extremes of the class system had been missed in conventional approaches to class analysis, which have focused on the middle and working classes. "It claims that it is too simplistic to look at class as containing just education and income, "... suggesting that class has three dimensions - economic, social and cultural."
The structure and functions of the upper class evade the eye of scrutiny. Although its many facets were hidden they are kept so by the interests of the elite themselves.
Any such analysis seems to me to be completely missing. Does Marx really shut his eyes at this aspect because his wife was a noble?

Through the summation of peoples personal mastery it is possible to see how the capitalist society becomes leaner and meaner. It never becomes a system where everyone lives the life of a billionaire. Because those who are left without much education have their progress measured at a different rate (a very slow one) than the owners class.


Personal Degeneration
So the opposite would be the drive of humans to take easier routes, to cut corners. What if such reduction of abilities in a willful manner provides a constant grind on the process of achieving hidden
aims of the owners class? Does this effect suddenly disappear after the workers come to power? In fact it worsened!
On the bright side, the advantage of this drive is presented as the development of society and technology. Yet some time into this progress, this drive puts people into their misery, drudgery, monotony and stress. These problems are solved in yet another technology - the application of computers in creating Augmented Reality, and the gamification of everything that was so far boring.

Production of narratives

One of the motives for playing social, Berneian games, and not all games but many, nonetheless, is to form narratives and stories, that form the main content of talks that repeat the past in speak. Those macrologies form also a later frame of reality and a component of the psychosocial space of Alzheimer's disease. These narrations also form the material for another game. A complete cycle appears. A circle of life appears as this metagame that is repeated in the next generation that listens to this cycle in its complete form.

Five elements of doom

How cultures disappear to stay as warnings in history books. How difficult it is to see this affecting us as much as others were affected.

1. environmental damage
2. climate change 
3. hostile neighbors 
4. friendly trade partners
5. a society's response to its environmental problems

This is from Jared Diamond.

Attack on the power-elite

There is a perceivable similarity in the way Nietzsche, the Sun Tzu and Machiavelli's The Prince handle the relationship between wars and the elite. Nietzsche calls for the masters to live dangerously and not care for the principle of will to live. This would lead them eventually to their demise. So it might be possible that he wanted the master to be vanquished by their own hand. The same can be seen in works mentioned above as well. Perhaps Marx should be in the list as well...His method was not a subtle attack at any point perhaps other than the second part of his work. Perhaps such demagogue's position was meant as a provocation of reaction against him.
His thought process yielded a huge power over the minds of many. In that it worked quite like religions do. He is certainly one of the powerful men of history. What more?
In the advocation of revolution as the only method of social end for capitalism he becomes the sales manager for the weapons industry. It is the military industrial complex that cannot be dislodged with any fighting, that would clearly just prolong the historical process burdened and enthralled by violence, aggression, and hence this cannot be a road towards communism.  In support of this here is how communism developed in Russia:
         To overcome our enemies we must have our own socialist militarism.
September 1918, Grigory Zinoviev
Perpetual war as a function of the state to coerce its citizens continues. This keeps the power elite in power over the means of destruction.

Overcoming the immortal industry of death
An attack is not enough. It would just keep things running in the same channel. Psychological usurpation is necessary. Public relations actions have been used before in overcoming a war. Protests can be carried out in many ways.
Communal enterprises could lead the way. Any attacks would just propagate the historical class struggle in many new forms.  It would become meaner, taking less lives but putting ever more people at the owner class' mercy.

On all fronts

I think now, having undergone a somewhat exhilarating metamorphosis in my political views, that the proponents of socialism should advance on all fronts towards it. Meaning that they should take each route available and regularly come together to see, compare and review the various techniques and ways with each other so that a democratic process would draw the most people to the most successful routes that result in the most stable forms of socialism.

The routes to socialism:

1. Reformist, the democratic route
2. Revolutionary, the vanguard's route
1. Exported/foreign funded socialism
2. Domestically originating socialism
3. Grassroots expansion of cooperative communities towards a sustainable and independent route
   While Marx downplays this route, "small-scale socialistic communities would be bound to marginalisation and poverty."  Why would large scale enterprises work? What would happen to a summation of the smaller communities if they would take up the whole society in a state?
4. Exodus and creating a community in an established socialist country
5. Technological revolution can make it affordable for the majority class to own and operate the means of production so blurring the line between the owners and the producers
6. Philanthropist, the charitable route

The revolutionary route seems doubtful, I believe that this would create a foundation for a bickering elite running the country possibly in a centralised manner and not form a stable, politically sustainable state. It would be based on coercion quite the same as capitalist societies.

While there has been no success overall towards a permanent revolution, the combination of all methods may form a wider road towards freedom from the shackles of capital.

Production of the mythology of efficiency

Is there not a parallel between the constant production of the Veil - the object of concealment, or an enveiling packaging of the capitalist system created for the class without the means of production and the production of fantasy from the workings of our unconcsious psyche?

In fact, as with any mythology the person that comes to believe it, pays for it. Capitalism creates a ruthlessly efficient system of the myth-making (for example one part of such credo is the story of an efficient market in comparison to the public sector) where the myths are constantly on sale and in fact in demand.

This works splendidly well also in state-capitalism. Both capitalism and state-capitalism are bounded by their respective belief-systems. This production works to produce the culture of the society.

What does this connection between the unconscious mind and the economic system indicate? The former is after all often the source of the success of the economic system. We could infer that something like the complexes of the psyche influence and reoccur in the economic system.

While culture is considered as one of the most value-ladden of products, I see here a reason to put a reversion on this price. Since we have to consume the culture to be indoctrinated in the system and sustain the sum of mythologies of capitalism so that we make good consumers and good workers. We should be paid to be believing in this mechanism of nonsense!

The coming to consciousness of this Veil can be solved by creating more culture inspired by other forms of economics, a production of culture that spreads faster and speaks of the reality without a motive to imbibe capitalism into the persons' moral sentiments.

Internet and IT in general provide the individual with the power to create and share their creativity to others, amusingly this is happening. What keeps the motive in this new growing culture to reverse capitalism while sustaining itself as a society and working faster and more powerfully than the capitalist culture?

From individuation in tribes to formation of civilization

What happens when people in their communities begin their process of individuation?
Where does it lead to? What are the consequences?

The legend of five webs

A few extrapolations on the possible progress of the web.

1. WEB 1.0 The web based on web pages on servers. Search engines. Wide accessibilty, ease of posting.
   1.5 Forums and chatrooms, affordable hosting servers
2. WEB 2.0 Social Media - Collaborative cooperation and two-way webservices
   The CMS, instant messaging, wiki
3. WEB 3.0 Semantic web - Big data,  meaningful data, analytical engines take over search engines, news, search and investment bots. Web gains the possiblity to reason and begins to reason based on human impetus and desires. Lifelogs.
   MOOC,
   wiki
   Watson
4. WEB 4.0 Pragmatic web - Internet of things creates a possbility to interact with everything from architecture to vehicles to nature to our health. The web begins to make and facilitate changes in our environment on an ever-increasing pace and period. Down to daily and perhaps even constant flow.
   Users begin to make their world according to their personal and shared vision.
   thingiverse.com
   robots
   agents/cybertwins
   RoboEarth Cloud Engine - 2013
5. WEB 5.0 Teleological web - Nanocultures, Valuecosm, an internet of wishfulfilment. People express their good wishes to get a response and effort by the web to match it or some reasoning to guide  wishes so that they comply with the sustainability principle. The eutopian principle of "maximum fulfilment of personal desires to the maximum number of people possible in the society so that the minimal principle of elimination of all suffering is upheld" begins to form an aim for existence.
6. WEB 6.0 Spiritual web - uploaded memories and eventually whole "spirits," the whole of the way of thinking and the whole experiences of the person

How to introduce the profit motive to formerly free services?

Capitalism is honing its own castration knife when people go to hospitals and begin to think that they should turn to pay for free hospitals' service. Until they have no option.

When the free service is quashed to the point that people have little chance between staying alive and dying they choose to bribe and equality before death vanishes. For this social cost the few in the power over profit get an income. The costs and benefits of the move are highly dubious. Solvency is threatened. The survival of the people are threatened. All of this with an unparalleled "economic growth" in the backdrop?