The Open Source Everything
Manifesto
The
circumstances underlying this manifesto are stark and compelling: We are at the end of
a five-thousand-year-plus historical process during which human society grew in
scale while it abandoned the early indigenous wisdom councils and communal
decision-making. Power was centralized in the hands of increasingly specialized
"elites" and "experts" who not only failed to achieve all
they promised but used secrecy and the control of information to deceive the
public into allowing them to retain power over community resources that they
ultimately looted.
In the
beginning, there was the commons. Over vast stretches of prehistoric time,
tribal cultures evolved in tandem with the natural environment. They did this
without creating private property or hierarchical relationships of control and
dominance that led to consumption of nature as a resource. Open-source culture
provided for community sharing and community development. With the rise of
patriarchy, empire, and systems of egoic control and empowerment, this
open-source approach to community was destroyed.
Over the
course of the last centuries, the commons was fenced, and everything from
agriculture to water was commoditized without regard to the true cost in
non-renewable resources. Human beings, who had spent centuries evolving away
from slavery, were re-commoditized by the Industrial Era.
The corruption
of the commons led to the loss of integrity between and among individuals,
organizations, and community. Artificial paradises made up of objects and
possessions were substituted for true community based on authentic
heart-to-heart relationships. Secular corruption is made possible by
information asymmetries between those in power and the public. In the absence
of transparency, truth, and trust, wealth is concentrated and waste is rampant.
We, Homo
sapiens, are defined by what we know in the context of the Cosmos and the Earth
-- larger Whole Systems.
We, Homo
sapiens, were in harmony with the Cosmos and the Earth during earlier centuries
when indigenous wisdom prevailed. The evolution of social forms and technology
toward ever-greater levels of complexity is part of our human development
toward deeper consciousness and self-awareness. The technosphere, as José
Argüelles and others have realized, is the necessary detour that takes us from
the pristine biosphere to the psychically collectivized state of the noosphere.
We live in a
constellation of complex systems. It is impossible for any single person or
even any single organization or nation in isolation to understand complex
systems.
Collective
intelligence -- multinational, multiagency, multidisciplinary, multidomain
information-sharing and sense-making -- is the only means of obtaining
near-real time understanding of complex systems sufficient to achieve
resilience in the face of changes. Many of these changes, including biospheric
ones such as climate change and depletion of planetary resources, are the
result of human activity and industry in the last three centuries.
As our
technological capacities continue to increase and our environment becomes ever
more fragile and endangered, we find that changes to the Earth that used to
take ten thousand years now take a fraction of that. We must rediscover and
reintegrate indigenous wisdom in order to come back into harmony with larger
whole systems, and do so in a manner that allows for application of appropriate
technologies and science, open-source intelligence gathering, and real-time
self-governance.
This means
that we cannot afford to address our complex world with industrial-era
hierarchies in which information travels laboriously up the chain to the top,
some elites deliberate -- lacking much of the information they need, and often
lacking ethics as well -- and then micro-management instructions go back down.
All this takes time, and the instructions are invariably wrong. Instead, we
harness the intelligence at the edge of the network -- at the point of impact
-- and the individual who is face to face with a problem in a microcosm is the
tip of the human spear, able both to reach back to all other humans for
assistance, and to act on behalf of all humans in the moment.
It is in this
light that we must recognize that only a restoration of open-source culture,
and all that enables across the full spectrum of open-source possibilities, can
allow humanity to harness the distributed intelligence of the collective and
create the equivalent of heaven on Earth -- in other words, a world that works
for all.
History is a
narrative we construct and a tool we can shape. Our model of history has been
corrupted by "information pathologies" that include weapons of distortion
and deception; suppression of alternatives and repression of inconvenient
knowledge; and manufactured consent, propaganda, secrecy, and outright
ideologically justified lies that go unchallenged by most journalists and
scholars.
Knowledge has
fragmented due to academic specialization, which supports an elite culture of
secrecy and allows for control of populations by the wealthy few, who maintain
surveillance and information-gathering operations. The sciences are divorced
from the humanities and from religions; disciplines are divorced from one
another; within disciplines the sub-disciplines have become tiny cultures in
isolation from all other knowledge clusters.
We find
ourselves at the end of centuries of isolation and alienation. We are at the
beginning of the Great Awakening. The evolution of social technologies and
communications media appears to align with prophecies of indigenous cultures
like the classic Maya, who looked toward our epoch as the end of one great
cycle and the beginning of another. It's a window of opportunity for us,
potentially the threshold of transformation of humanity into a new psychic
collectivity, a new global civilization that can attain galactic citizenship.
We have the potential to achieve a radical evolution and expansion of our
consciousness as a species, once we put aside all lesser goals.
Sharing, not
secrecy, is the means by which we realize such a lofty destiny as well as
create infinite wealth. The wealth of networks, the wealth of knowledge,
revolutionary wealth -- all can create a nonzero win-win Earth that works for
one hundred percent of humanity. This is the "utopia" that
Buckminster Fuller foresaw, now within our reach.
Context
matters. Context creates coherence and restores the missing connections that
the fragmentation of knowledge into academic specializations has caused.
Economy needs to be reimagined in terms of a whole systems approach-the
"true costs" of human action need to be measured holistically, in
terms of effects on the regenerative capacity of the biosphere as a whole. If
we as Homo sapiens fail to connect the dots and make decisions on the basis of
truthful, true-cost information, we will self-destruct.
Clarity
(transparency) is the means by which we nurture the recognition and sharing of
truth.
Diversity is
how our human species will achieve ongoing abundance by liberating human
innovation.
Integrity is
how we enter into a "state of grace" and become "one with
God," however you choose to define and understand these broad terms. This manifesto
defines "God" as an experience of collective solidarity that extends
from the human realm to the universe as a whole.
Sustainability
can only be achieved through mass collaboration and the achievement of panarchy
-- a constellation of co-equal hybrid systems of self-governance in which all
individuals freely choose where they wish to be heard, and have full access to
all relevant information.
Culture is the
soul of the community, the "glue" that keeps the lessons of history
alive, that demands clarity, that unifies diversity, that nurtures and demands
integrity, and thus sustains the community.
A model for
public intelligence is proffered in this book, ideally providing a means for
every citizen to be a collector, producer, and consumer of public intelligence
(decision-support).
A model for
informed democracy also is proffered here -- it provides a means for achieving
panarchy, enabling every citizen to have access to all relevant information and
to participate constructively in an infinite number of self-selected
communities of interest.
Organized
people will defeat organized money every time. We must all come together to
begin a new era that restores the sovereignty of the public in the aggregate
over all other forms of organization and influence.
Panarchy is
the end-state, Radical Man is the soul, Reflexive Practice is the process, and
Web 4.0 -- all people connected to one another and all information in all
languages all the time -- is the means whereby we create and actualize a World
Brain and Global Game, a noosphere, and achieve evolutionary collective
consciousness.
The goal is to
reject money and concentrated illicitly aggregated and largely phantom wealth
in favor of community wealth defined by community knowledge, community sharing
of information, and community definition of truth derived in transparency and
authenticity, the latter being the ultimate arbiter of shared wealth.
When we
relate and share knowledge authentically, this places us in a state of grace, a
state of "win-win" harmony with all others, and establishes trust
among all.
Copyright © 2012 by
Robert David Steele
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