"All the World's a Stage We Pass Through" R. Ayana

Showing posts with label change agents. Show all posts
Showing posts with label change agents. Show all posts

Monday, 16 January 2012

The Bumpy Road to the Golden Age


The Bumpy Road to the Golden Age

WHY IS IT SO HARD to EMBRACE CHANGE?

 

 



Across the world we are seeing signs of massive actions for and against systemic change…


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Inertia is the tendency of a body to resist change. A body tends to resist motion when it is at rest; likewise, it tends to resist rest when it is in motion. Inertia is directly proportional to the mass of an object, i.e. the higher the amount of matter an object has, the “fiercer” it tends to resist change.

This same natural phenomenon can be applied or is observable in an organization or to an entire society. It usually takes a greater effort to move away from the status quo in order to effect the necessary change than to accept the present order and just go with the flow. Most of us are guilty of keeping ourselves to our comfort zones while wishing for change to come along without an effort on our part. Both resistance to change and the preservation of the status quo are expressed in different forms and magnitude. And when that occurs one side needs to give in.

The present reality demands that the old world must provide a smooth transition to the new. Through its unrelenting pursuit for advancements and untiring labors, man has finally achieved technological capability to automate every repetitive task there is to accomplish. This capacity to take it to the next level has been deterred and has suffered strong opposition for the last 100 years. Free energy, anti-gravity, teleportation, time travel, and space exploration should have been the norms of the last 20th century, but it wasn’t to be due to the refusal of the few to step down from the throne of exclusive luxury and power which they can only have under a misinformed society.


Just before the close of the 19th century, it was proven beyond doubt that we are swimming in a sea of energy. There is no space anywhere that is not under its influence, for it is energy that space is made of. In fact, energy is what everything is really made of. Tapping it should have been the first science a schoolchild must learned, but it wasn’t. We must crawl on our bellies, bath on our sweat, and listen, in perpetuity, to the cries of our brothers in the depths of Third World hunger.

Our sense of appreciating the grandeur that is life had been effectively attenuated to say the least. And all of these sufferings were made possible because of the doctrine that there is heaven only in the afterlife. We either consciously or subconsciously believe in the promise that we can only find eternal happiness in the eyes of the lord when we are already dead. Oh my, we don’t even know who this guy really is, although, some of us do pretend to know.

 

OCCUPATION  WITHOUT  DIRECTION?

 

Even the bulk of those who participated in “Occupy Wall Street” are still asking for decent jobs with fair wages when there’s really no real need for such things in order to survive at this point in time.

  The birth of automation technology signaled the death of jobs. Manual labor is irrelevant in the age of automation. Manual labor is now rendered obsolete. The economic system must reflect this fact. Otherwise, those who have no access for money because they don’t own a job, i.e. they lost it due to automation, will just perish in hunger. Technology must serve man, not eliminate him from the equation.

The present system compels the shopowner to use machines to keep the bottomline. Machines don’t complain, are simply reliable, and undoubtedly more efficient. To put it simply, it is only the shopowner who benefits from the high efficiency that advanced technology, coexisting with an outdated economic system, brings, and not the shopworkers. The current economic system does not take into account technological advancements when it was designed centuries ago.

Not only are they trying to monopolize the benefits of science, they are using these knowledge to engineer our own demise by weaponizing some of them. Chemtrail is one good example of weather manipulation technology turned into a weapon of mass extermination using aluminum and other heavy metals that are known carcinogens.

 

SHOUTING FOR CHANGE - IS IT ENOUGH?

 

To those who have joined the occupation of the streets across the globe, who were mocked at by mainstream media as having not a clear objective of why they’re taking such actions, they must make their message clear, bold and coherent as possible. They must abandon the notion that the system can still work and is only corrupted by corporate greed. There’s a need to remove not just corruption but also the system, i.e. the corporate structures that encourage it. They must accept the fact that the current economic model is completely incompatible with present realities. They must realize that asking for more jobs is like wishing upon a dying star.

There never is a company bent on making huge profits which would want to do so. A singular voice for the release of all technological knowledge and all other resources of the State to the people, without the prerequisite of money, must be the only message that must be put across and nothing else.

We are not advocating for socialism but for a resource-based economy. A socialist society still uses currency to distribute wealth; a resource-based economy negates the use of any currency because all resources and technological know-how are made available to any individual, which incidentally could make all his basic necessities fully satisfied. When every resource you need is made accessible to you, you will never find any incentive for greed and corruption. You will never have any motivation for stealing. And who would want to sell something nobody is willing to buy?

 

THERE WILL ALWAYS BE SKEPTICISM

 

This is impossible to realize. Of course it is. Even heavier than air flight was impossible at the time when kids were flying kites. Running car on waterfuel is impossible even if we saw how steam engines preceded gas-fired internal combustion engines. We can’t defy gravity even if we can run high speed trains on magnetic levitation tracks.

The government will never allow a partial or full implementation of RBE. The lawmakers will never craft any law that would implement such a system. Those are good assumptions. These people would never do such things as they are not really serving us. So why keep them and the system they are working for? Aren’t we supposed to be the masters and they are our servants? Or, is the constitution just a scrap of paper and not an expression of the collective will and aspirations of the people?

 

MAN SUFFERED THROUGH HIS OWN FOLLY

 

Man, as opposed to other species which incidentally he classifies as inferior, has suffered so much through the imposition of his own restrictions:

  • Countries restrict movements and cultural exchanges while encouraging animosity;

  • Religions restrict true spiritual wisdom but divides the body called humanity into sections breeding sectarian violence between differing faiths;

  • Money restricts the access to materials critical to his own survival;

  • Land titling restricts ownership to the moneyed class; overall economic production is limited to only those who have both the money and motivation to development; otherwise, the land is sitting idly by while the rest die in hunger;

  • Schools restrict his knowledge to a predetermined set of dogmatic rules, and in no way will he be allowed to stray beyond these rules without dire consequences to his career and reputation; the violators are treated as social and intellectual outcasts;

  • Mainstream media restricts his access to information by giving major air time to entertainment, selected current events focusing solely on disasters, petty to gruesome crimes, low profile corruptions, and endless political circus.

Other members of the animal kingdom don’t have these restrictions. They look at the world as a common gift to partake upon without going beyond the bounds of satisfying physical needs.

Humankind deserves to do what we want to do and be where we want to be. Our advancements are the harvest of our own labors. The benefits inherent to these advancements must be enjoyed, not just by the few who did not cause them, but by the many who collectively shed blood, sweat and tears to make life more than bearable. Humanity must be able to taste what heaven is like in this lifetime and not after.

It is time to remove all these restrictions he put on himself and those that are imposed upon him. It is time for a systemic upgrade and not just a reboot of the same grossly outmoded socioeconomic system so that new technologies can be fully harnessed for everyone’s benefit and new ideas can flourish without institutionalized restrictions. It is time for the 6,000 patents of suppressed technologies to finally see the light of day. It is time for the total incineration of medieval cultures and practices. It is time for a paradigm shift in favor of prosperity and wisdom.

It is time for us to fully evolve into a Type 1 civilization










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Sunday, 17 April 2011

The Ecologist Guide to Data Activism

Data activism

The Ecologist Guide to Data Activism

You don't have to be a web geek to join the growing ranks of activists who have told powerful stories using data visualisation. Christine Ottery outlines how you can use data as a powerful tool to press for change


Isabell Long was 16 years old and with little previous computer programming experience when she created GovSpark, an application that influenced government departments to reduce their energy consumption.

At the time, the government's real time energy data had just been released, allowing ordinary citizens, like Isabell Long, to hold the government accountable to meet its target to slash energy use by 10 per cent.

Emma Mulqueeny, digital media expert and director of hack day events organizers Rewired State, tells me that GovSpark was part of a ‘really effective strategy' to reduce the government's energy use because it showed at a glance how departments were competing. 'We were calling up the press officers from different departments and saying you could do something about what is causing the spikes in energy,' she says.

According to Mulqueeny, 'The government energy and carbon emissions data is still very much an underused resource.' This is because data can differ in file format or even units of measurement from one department to the next, creating a hefty amount of work before it can be compared meaningfully.

Could another reason be technical knowledge barriers? If you want to work at the coalface of data activism the best thing to do it roll your sleeves up and learn a programming language.

Otherwise, there are free programmes that can carry out at least parts of the process - but you might have to rely on developers as well. One example of open source software you can use is the data visualization tool Many Eyes, which can display your data attractively in bubbles, graphs or maps.

Here are some tips that will help you get started, whether you decide to learn to code or not:

Identify sources

Data can be numbers or text. The first thing to do is identify the data sources that you want to analyse or cross-reference. In the UK, public data is released on Data.gov.uk, which is licensed by the National Archives and paid for by UK taxpayers. Other sources could include international governments, quangos or the UN.

It is worth considering making a Freedom of Information (FOI) request if the information you want to use is not already publicly available. You can use WhatDoTheyKnow.com to help you generate emails to the relevant government department's FOI office.

Be careful, however, with commercial data. 'You have to abide by their licensing laws otherwise that's just nicking,' says Mulqueeny. Needless to say, data theft is illegal.

Sometimes you can get permissions to use private data, however. For example, Premasagar Rose, founder of web apps company Dharmafly, created a game called Carbon Copies to raise awareness of carbon footprints with data from Mike Berners-Lee's book ‘How bad are bananas?'. This was as part of a climate hack day run by Rewired State.

Digging for data

When web developers run programming language code to pull data with specific criteria from websites, it is called data scraping, data mining, or data hacking.

ScraperWiki is one platform for scraping data. Developers can write code into ScraperWiki browsers to get started. Those who can't code can use the data from the database, or request new data scrapes. Aine McGuire, director of Scraperwiki, describes ScraperWiki as 'a social network for data prospectors' - there are 1,700 developers in the community and numbers are increasing by 20 per cent each month.

However, be cautious when you are drilling down into cross-referenced geolocation data because you risk identifying individuals, which can have legal ramifications. Mulqueeny recommends consulting a statistician to be on the safe side - contact the Royal Statistical Society to find an expert.

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Tell the story

Data visualization can be powerful. David McCandless' graphics and animations, for example, are renowned for their ability to put a perspective on large numbers in comparative datasets.

One of the simplest ways to visualize data is if you have geolocation information. For example, 38 Degrees used a Google map to pinpoint forests endangered under the government's recently proposed (and retracted) sell-off. You can do something similar with Mapalist. Other visualization tools include: Google Charts, Many Eyes, Wordle, Tableau Public and Open Heat Map.

Interactivity is a hot new field, led by Hans Rosling's Gapminder Foundation, which animates global statistics. "Trying to find a way to engage a human with hard data is the challenge," says Rose.

James Darling, a developer at designers Berg London, says, 'Telling stories with the data is the crucial part, and the bit that's often missing is a really good narrative.' He recommends reading Ben Griffiths' history hack blogpost to check out masterful storytelling with statistics.

Also, ‘Journalism in the Age of Data' is a brilliant video on the challenges of telling stories with data.

Learn to code

By now, you might want to learn how to code so you can scrape data and build your own applications and visualisations. But how hard is it to pick up?

'If you have good skills in Excel then it is relatively easy to pick up a computing language like Ruby. You would then be able to take the data out of your spreadsheet and turn that into a mobile application or web application that you can visualize,' says Mulqueeny.

It is time to choose a programming language. Ruby is considered the easiest. Darling says he prefers Ruby because it is more readable as a kind of 'semi-English', which can help you to learn it. Rose, however, calls JavaScript 'liberating' because every browser, mobile phone and increasingly servers are running Javascript.

Mulqueeny says that the best way to learn coding is get a developer to talk you through it. She days: 'There are lots of informal developer's communities who meet in pubs across the UK who welcome newbies, for example Ruby in the Pub. You can find them on Twitter.' Alternatively, Rose recommends starting your own group of nascent data hackers to learn together and collaborate together.

To learn off your own steam, you can try O'Reilly books. Darling suggests: 'Hackety hack is written for children and will teach you the basics in a fun way.'

Christine Ottery is a freelance journalist


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Wednesday, 22 March 2006

Change Agents

Change Agents

  

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There was a time, not so long ago, when the ‘Western World’ was infected with an explosion of new, fresh ideas and ideals. It was a time when all authority was recognised as arbitrary, when leaders were routinely questioned, held up to real scrutiny - and sometimes paid real penalties when found to be engaged in illegal or unethical conduct. A time when all war was recognised as an unnecessary evil, a tool of control for the rich and powerful. It was a time when organised religions came to be recognised as pernicious fairy tales and new ways to evolve the spirit were sought in truly ancient places.

 


           
It was a time when young women encouraged, sheltered and praised young men for avoiding government orders to murder strangers in their homes. Many became active in creating an alternative vision of life, love and politics and began to enact real changes in their lives and relations with each other. They stood up to defend the persecuted and rallied to save the environment and bring an end to war.

         They decried injustice and rampant mindless consumerism (shopping) and recognised industry and business as blind behemoths pushing the world toward disaster. 

          They learned to effect change without violence. And often they said, “Never trust anyone over thirty,” as they saw most of those older than themselves as the cause of the world’s problems as they watched them suck up and sell out their dreams and children for imaginary and toxic ‘luxuries’. 

          It was less than two generations ago that the young suddenly outnumbered the old in the West. Not since the Renaissance had well educated youth seized a chance to transform the fossilised crap heaped on them by their terrified bumpkin elders and create new dreams and pathways to growth out of old offal. 

          Today this demographic exists in the ‘East’.

         In reality, 99% of the young people in those halcyon days paid mere lip service to change and burrowed into the cocoon offered them by society when they had the chance, recapitulating the caterpillar lives of their parents and grandparents. They became part of the problem, ignoring the truth they’d known in their hearts and ending up helping to put to sleep the revolution of awareness sweeping the globe. They went out and ‘got a real job’ working for The Man – working for the Beast, working out of fear – fear of being seen as different, fear of insecurity, fear of the unknown, fear of old age and death.

          Only a vanishingly small minority ever actually worked toward changing the dumb oligarchies and transform the feudal fraud foisted on their parents. Only a small number chose to have a great time transforming themselves in this, the best of all possible worlds - instead of blindly burrowing to create their own tomb, mindlessly working, consuming, reproducing and dying.

          While most became lonely box-watchers living in boxes, some entered a different cocoon, a chrysalis, and transformed. They saw, lived and communicated a version of the world which could thrive without the interfering lies of mummified politics, money, religion, aggression - tools used by the burrowing builders of hives for the domesticated, unevolved bulk of terrified humanity. They created spaces where the paradoxical combination of freedom and sharing could replace the blind-leading-the-blind slavery of wage serfdom.

 

Imagine. They knew that none but ourselves can free our minds. Their songs of freedom and redemption pointed out new ways and many people came to see the obvious – that the Emperor wore no clothes and that nothing stood in the way of them all making a just and wonderful world for themselves. They knew that there was no reason to wait and the time for enlightenment is always now.
 
While many adopted hip fashions and patois, only about one percent actually lived and spread word of these new ways of living. Hardly any stood together in the streets or forests and said “Stop – no further!” at peril of their freedom and health. Only a few consciously and actively changed their own lives and the world.

          But they could live with themselves – and die without guilt. They did what they could and seeded the wider cult(ure). Many were infected by these seeds of transformation explored possibilities that their parents and contemporaries couldn’t understand, out of sight and out of the bright glare of history. Yet most of the social and environmental advances we have come to experience in the last generation have been a result of their efforts.

It’s time for the sleepers to awaken. You know who you are.Time for us all to start living our ideas and ideals - again. Look around. Smell the flowers or smell the coffee. How will you live, now that you have a choice? This is the best of all possible worlds.

- R. Ayana

         
 "The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and by acting on the law of the strongest breaks up the foundations of society."

-         Thomas Jefferson







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