Progress - Get howdt while we can

I was responding to a Pint of Stout at Sunni's website when i drifted off onto a new thought pattern. Rather than take up her space, i decided to occupy my own space - which is where people should be taking care of their business anyway.

Progress is one of those difficult terms that everybody has a definition that they assume is common to others, but we rarely bother to check with each other. It is almost as bad as the word 'community' - which i parlay around in circles with a lot. Pro is the opposite of con, so progress is the opposite of congress. With health care reform and senora Sotomayor, my head is definitely not pointed in that direction.

Things are changing rapidly - at a personal level we all need to define progress in terms of ourselves, our families (extended), our colleagues and co-workers, and the larger community that we work within before we start setting guidelines for everybody else. Gurdjieff and Ospensky had the concept of three lines of flow - where two were engaged at any given time. The three spheres in the Fourth Way are self, larger community and school of thought.

School is something we no longer even think about. It is a function of life that has been taken howdt of our hands and turned over to a monopolar entity that is too large to wrap our hands around. The life skills that are currently necessary are very different than the life skills that will be required five years from now. It is up to us to change the framework of how we operate in life. Creating a school of thought that is howdtside the realm of the current reality is my current goal. It has to be a fractal of the life we lead now - with significant changes in certain areas.

To join my quest - start looking at some of the links off this page. Building community in my personal space means relating one-on-one to the individuals that i connect with. The bloggosphere is an extension of real life into a virtual realm - there is no pathway that brings the virtual realm back into reality. Yet!

The social networks that we currently have are dominated by high profile facebooks and twitters - but the real wealth comes from finding a little niche and sharing what you like best with other co-creative persons. Self-assembly and tracking information are two of the keys, but how it will work does not have to be predefined (unless we need to sell the business plan to some investor - definitely an old construct that we don't need to have in our world (or do we)).

I wish to start a bank and to have access to the money system rules that the bankers have. I don't need billions to bail me howdt - a couple hundred thousand would go a long way. But there has to be a better medium of exchange. Fractional reserve currency dynamics sound great - let me bank a silver piece and get 40 times that value to pass howdt interest bearing loans. We need a different concept of bank. A Bank & Trust should be a community asset developer.

If you like where this is going - come visit Existence. Post a response here and we'll develop a grid that connects my reality into your reality. The idea is to be howdt there far enough to nucleate communities of different approaches to common problems and to collect good data to measure what works. Chaos dissolves into orders that are readily apparent from the perspective of the chaos. Imposed pre-order does not work any longer - let's explore doing it differently.