Balance the past with Zeitgeist
Please watch the Zeitgeist Addendum, and RIP: Remix Manifesto
Kafka gave us The Metamorphosis. We have the power to realize our own humility. Being wrong is irrelevant if you learn from your mistakes and prevent systemic risk from such errors. How can we be so content with our wisdom if we continually ignore this vital lesson. As Wikipedia suggests, some people mistakenly dismiss The Zeitgeist Movement of being similar to Socialism, which could not be more wrong. Emergent systems are the building block of The Zeitgest Movement, while socialism tends to ignore incentives between the group and the individual. Most “losers” of history tend to argue that their system of beliefs wasn’t implemented correctly. But they are right! Thomas Sowell suggests that WHO is making the decision is the most important aspect of any system. I urge you to skim this excellent summary of the book.
Zeitgest Movement is a school of thought that grounds itself in its humility and focuses on learning and technology to achieve a kind of Truthocracy I’ve been posting about. The Zeitgesters are working to create a system for continual improvement where the incentives of the individual are aligned with those of the group. Where the decision maker is in a continual iterative effort to harvest every drop of wisdom from the group prior to making the decision. Let’s not be naive though – we have to be honest and humble in this pursuit and continually strive to improve the knowledge gathering algorithms. We must also beware of students bluffing their way to teaching.
“The Internet was not the first technology to disrupt a few business models. From the printing press to the player piano, one generation is always calling the next a pirate”. The aim of copyright law was to aid in learning by BALANCING the rights of the authors and readers (teachers and students). Balance between the copyright and copyleft is the key. Removing the obstacles for a balanced use of the rational and creative sides of the brain is the trick to achieving flow:
“Alice Flaherty argues that creativity is due to a balance of frontal and temporal lobe activity. In other words the trick is not, in fact, to get out of your “left brain” and into your right, but to increase activity in the right hemisphere (or reduce activity in the left) so it matches the activity on the other side.” Source
Awareness vs “Bewareness” is the eternal and internal battle of the present imagination and past “experience”. Our goal then must be to reduce obstacles to balance to create flow in all systems.
Rafe was here more than 2 years ago:
“- Cooperators and defectors co-exist
- “Cooperators survive in clusters”
- “Cooperators can invade defectors when starting from a small cluster”
- One interesting dynamic occurs when two self-sustaining “walker” sub-populations collide into a “big bang” of cooperation which largely takes over the population.”"
So it is very reasonable that I would have never learned this or learned it years from now if i didn’t start Googling my hypotheses. Ultimately the resource focus of Zeitgest will revolve around the speed of learning, which resides within you – your own willingness to learn, teach, and stay humble.
Please watch the Zeitgeist Addendum, and RIP: Remix Manifesto
Then facebook and twitter it (buy a copyleft t-shirt to spread the word and create more balance). You can’t have big bang without them.
Related posts:
- Notes from TED
- Decision Education Foundation
- Peanut Butter and “Culture Jamming” Sandwich
- Leveraging Taxes for Civil Engagement
- Evolution Favors Cooperation Over Competition
