https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bR-bsvi0Nk
Annotating on hypothesis as a resource for others in the Fellowship of the Sacred Commons
Four Sessoins in September
Gifting was way of life in Brehon Life
Cumann was the original Commons
Even in feudal times, the people had a Cumann
Capitalism destroyed the Cumann - it is anti-commons
The state regulates the market
Commons as a social welfare system
1980's globalisation - nations can no longer regulate
Restore the Cumann and use it to regulate the present into the future
No place for Religion
No place for Ideaology
Local - Translocal - Cosmo-Local
Web3 - Crypto as models
SESSION 1
Macro History Review
Patterns
Cyclical Humanity
COmmons arrises when Market and State become hegemonic
Commons can also become hegenomic
Transition now
What kind of commons?
Physical Commons
Social Commons
Digital Commons
Phy-gital Commons
An interesting time in humanity
Who are the commoners?
Thesis and Empirical Evidence of 20 years observation of Seed Forms
Verifiable Data that something is happening
Coherent Speculation
Commons in Feudalism
Commons in Capitalism
Alan Paige Fisk - The structure of social life
Communal Shareholding - Family
Equality Matching - Gifting
Authority Ranking - Protect & Reward
The Market
Humanity wants to create Mode A at a higher level of com-lexity - people, family, but we want it at civilisational scale
Religion was the first attempot to civilise civilisation - to civilise warriors - Caim Aideain -
Capitalism is mass ideaology
Immination of the Eschaton
Life is a vale of tears but we can go to heaven
The age of the Father - The Age of the Son - The Age of the Spirit - live like monks, we do not need church
Paradise is in the future
Reformation
Mass Utopia - past present future
BUT THIS IS OVER!!! 1789 to 1989
The Age of Cosmo-Local Networks
Software
Currencies
Our Hopes are invested in Blockchain which is a form of Jesus
Civilisations Spiral - there is always somethign left behind
It bifurcates - a reaction against the failure of the previous cycle
In Rome, work was slavery
In Christianity - work is sacred to make heaven on earth
Commonsres think translocally - cosmically
We do nto need the nation state
Fair BnB can replace Air BnB - it does not need the nation state
The Spirit as modes of exchange
Matter and Spirit are at the same level - the physical is sacred
Ideaology and Materialism can be integrated
Michel's very traumatic childhood
Marxism explained his suffering
HIs abandonment of Trotsky-ism
Shifted to self change
Looking at the world world his marxist glasses
Joined a Reich commune
Women compete for the Alpa Males - and Michel was not an alpa male
People are confused when they have no methodology at all
In order to be free, one has to know how one is determined
A tourist sees a building, but a local sees the people who inhabited the building as a culture over time
We learn from people that we disagree with
Listenign to right wing people - I do nto agree with you, AND I get you
3D is light and shadow - it is perspecival which also then creates a shadow
Christian Atheism
Conservative Communism
Michel was cancelled in 2018 - it was his shock
Universities used to be mostly men, now there are two women for every man in univesities
Something has gone wrong with the Left and Masculinity
The network state world is antithetical to family
In a society that has to struggle, the male is dominant
When that society becomes richer, the female becomes dominant (Dominus = Lord)
Rich women have an advantage over poor women becase their kids will survive
In an egqlitarian sopciety, all kids survive, so the rich women discourage other women to have children
Being a mother, growing life has to have prestige
when reproduction rates are low, society suicides itself
Commons is a practice and an institution
Network State Movement = collect money with crypto and then buy land - create a new corporate state - be a shareholder not a citizen
Commons as cosmo local domain relevancies
Crypto has the idea of contribution to the common good
Michel started to read the Dark Masters when he was canceleld in 2018
We can only want what oher peopel want - so we compete
Then we need a scapegoat - we find a common enemy
Religion is a way to sacreficie people
Sacrifice is a potion regulated through religion - until Christ appears to end the sacrifice
In feudal times, a merchant could not wear fur, it was only for royalty
In egalitarisn societies, everyone can have everything, but the only way to solve the demand is mass production with mass consumption
A rich woman can own an expensive bag yet in five years, everyoine can have it
Capitalism regulates this through over-consumpotion
Capitalism is now violent - billions of little cuts for thousands of years
LEFT : Man is good instituions are bad
RIGHT: Man is bad institutions are good
We can be egalitarian by confronting our dark nature - we are envious - we are animalistic - we needed the ten commandments - but we were given 30 of them
We began to go into thertapy in the 1970's to confront ourselves
IN the 1980's we invited medication to suppporess the symptoms
Generations have nto done their own inner work
The Woke accuse old white men in the way they used to blame the Jews - scapegoating machineries
Neo-Liberalals now medicate the psyche - medicalisation of symptoms
We need to become somatic - we have to work it out in the body, thropugh the body - spirtituality arises in somatic experiences
Michel then looked to the East - a supermarket of therapy
Rashneesh Commune - preparign the world for neo-liberalism
Forget guilt and shame - forget the others - follwo your own path - follow your own bliss - transcend yourself - become selfish - go fot it - have the life youw ant - INDIVIDUALLISTIC
But if you did not have money - you cooudl not joiun that club
People prostituted themselves to go to the Ashram for €75 a day - it was for upper middle class people
How it becase a mastery of seduction - you want this
Watch Wild Wild Country - OSHO
Michel then looked at the traditions of the West - Templar - Rosicrucian -
He had to reconcile hismelf with Western Civilisation
Catholics were hostile to slavery - the church bought slaves from the ottomans - a low number of salves in Europe (it aboloshed slavery)
Buddhists had slaves since the 1930's
A Christian has to love their neighbour
Keith Chandler - beyond civilisation - relationship between order and chaos
Tribal people are not alienated, family is known as are enemies
Civilisations are alienated - solider, slave, serf, religion
Commons is not utopian
New relationship with nature
Social contracts
Not paradise
Not classless
The transition is messy
We can do better than destroying ourselves
We are in a new phase of history
Commons is a realistic hypothesis of cnage
It's real already
In the 14th century: we had purgatory so then we could lend money, we had the printing press to spead ideas and we had double entry book-keeping to create capitalism : THEY WERE SEED FORMS
Social Change needs SEED FORMS - e,g, Commons
P2P WIKI - 40,000 entries
Ken Wilbur - Integral Studies
Levels
Schema
Quadrants
Golden Rosicrucians in Holland
Gnostic Dialoistic New Christian - Saklas - Jehovah - Yeldabaoth - Pleroma - Monad - Barbelo - Aeon - Archon
With Gnostics, MIchel could not accept a hateful world and decided to be creative - he was tired of introspection
Transhumanism Documentary
Head of Digital Strategy for a Telco 90's + Burnout
William James - once born people - twice born people - we have to do a lot of work - crisis, we com eout of it - so many things - a richer integratveo capacity -dark night of the soul to be integrated 1998 (Age of 42)
The world is tragic and I can do something without teh rage of being 18
P2P Foundation - sabbatical
Came back to his engagement - tremendous energy until 2018 - massive productivity
10,000 academic references
4,000 google scholar references
2018 - shared critical video of jordan petersen - fascist - disagreed with him, but Michelw as cancelled
Michel is a librarian
People reacted - where am I?? Its like Salma Rushdie beign attacked without reading him
Nobody defended him from the extremists
"You cannat talk becase youa re white" Deminised - defunded - debanked depaypalled - blacklisted - height of popularity to zero - unjust - questioning is thsi the left - am I still on the left?
A good thing - he did not know anythign about the right
From Trotsky to New Right and all in between - no labs
He is a conservative communist - we need to improve and preserve - there are no contradictions
In 2016 - counter culture switches to the right
We lost the leftist opinion - it was a mourning
Leftism used to be a brotherhood - now to go being a white person, we are sub-human
Genital mutilation is not normal
The woke right commits genocide and the jews cannot be criticised
Identity is layered - over many years in a real life
Life experiecne made him a compelx layered being
In the USA, the Reds fear china, the blues fear the internet
They are tribes - only 4% of blues marry reds
In the USA, they are physically separating by relocaing to theri own states
Ruling classs 1%
Managers class with many factions
After world war 2, one had to be Kenseyian - this was the faction supported
In 1973, Oil Crisis - maybe Friedman??? the new neo-liberal elites that becase hegemonic
Occupy 2014 - against the 1%
6,000% increase in woke vocabularoty in press
Elites decide to shift to anotehr faction - e.g Holland hegemonic abolished guilds - but then the peopel stopped fightign fot the elite
We are in an accelerated disintegration of the western model
Importance of Web3 and P2P
Course on The Commons
Michel's Higher Standpoint now
Integrative Capacity
Motivation (not rage and resentment)
Activism is high on the dark triad
Capacity to see relatvie truths of different human groups
A new breed of people who are politically homeless
Pragmatic - making sense
MIchel's dream (web 3) social change if we have willing alliacnes from the top, the middle and the top
Monasteries - Roman Elite - People
Attract capital from sections of the elite who have the money
There is huge capital flow
if you are a parasite, they will come after you
If you share, you will be welcome everywhere
A SEED FORM
dependent on our participation
Event in Brussels - Commons Hob Brussels
706 - cultural events in people's own houses
Michel has something to say and wants to share it
In timews like this, going deep is very important
Too much action
Deep Exchange
Make time to step back
NOT ACT ACTUALLY
THINK DONT ACT!