need to try and assemble some of my political/philosophical World View stuff together into some context... I'm giving up logic/proof for the moment and just trying to mix-master these things to tie them together (hmm, Diagram Of Effects?). Let's call the below "Claims".

Engage Ment:

• people feel a lack of engagement with politics, their employers, their employees, their society, their neighborhood, etc.

• even small-scale institutions feel impersonal, incongruent

• a feeling of engagement requires a sense of Feed Back: of being heard, of having effect

Evolut Ion:

• is a good thing

• isn't finished

• is inevitable

• goes along with Accelerating Change

FreeDom:

• all freedom must be based on Individual Freedom and Voluntary Association/transaction

• Individual Freedom requires private Property Rights (though the nature/details of those are fuzzy)

• the combination of the previous points leads to economic activity designed as a Market Economy, though humans don't make every (any?) transaction design on a purely rational/optimizing basis.

  • Small World is a model that may combine Free Market with individual AgenCy/FreeDom. The Network Economy may be a key path.

Maybe I need to write a Pattern Language! :)

Or maybe I need to focus on Action Able mentality: Games To Play.

Market Economy, Open Society

Small World vs Big World

OrganIc, Emerg Ence, Complex Ity

Two Cultures, New Economy, Red Vs Blue

We had a kinda stable understandable CultUre (Tribal Ism). But it's been in increasing flux since the Enlighten Ment. We've increased FreeDom, but at the price of Commun Ity. The answer now isn't to go back, but to go forward toward models that help us get Commun Ity with FreeDom.

• see Whole Lives, Slow World, Reputation Management, Social Capital, Engage Ment

Conflict among humans is made worse by combining increasing diversity of culture with high coupling ("shared" political power, schools, etc.).

• Federal Ism, Non Interventionism, [Network Society], [Loosely Coupled Culture], Minimal Compact.

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