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Focused on new book, but in passing provides very good summaries of past books.

Jared Diamond: what we can learn from tribal life

The west's dwindling connection with the natural world puts it in increasing peril, says the distinguished anthropologist in his new book. Many of the practices of tribal cultures can help us to rediscover our way, he argues – from respecting the environment to letting toddlers play with knives

EXTRACT

Since moving to LA, Diamond has produced a series of books that have propelled him to fame. The first, The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee, appeared in 1992, its title referring to Homo sapiens, who are depicted by Diamond as a species of chimpanzee that is increasingly out of kilter with the natural world, particularly since the invention of agriculture, “a catastrophe from which we have never recovered”. With the arrival of farming, Diamond argues, women were subjected to domestic drudgery; people started to hoard resources and wealth; and our proximity to animals triggered disease epidemics that still threaten to overwhelm us. “With agriculture came the gross social and sexual inequality, the disease and despotism, that curse our existence,” he states. The Third Chimpanzee won the Royal Society prize for science books that year.

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2013/01/012013/01/01

Howard Rheingold: 24 Jan to 1 Mar Webinar on “Toward a Literacy of Cooperation: Introduction to Cooperation Studies”

03 Economy, 04 Education, 11 Society, Advanced Cyber/IO, Civil Society, Collective Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Gift Intelligence

We're convening “Toward a Literacy of Cooperation: Introduction to Cooperation Studies,” January 24 -March 1.

A detailed syllabus: http://socialmediaclassroom.com/host/cooperation4

Cost: $300; $250 if you've taken a Rheingold U course before; $500 if your company reimburses you.

In addition to the monetary cost, a commitment to participate is required. The real magic is in learning the meta-skill of forming a learning community with strangers around the world in just a few weeks. To get the most out of this experience, you will need to devote 2-3 hours a week to reading, writing, mindmapping. It's the equivalent of a graduate-level seminar.

Read the syllabus carefully. Check the schedule. The reason I'm looking for learners three weeks early is that it works better if everyone gets a week or two head start on the readings. The community is limited to 35 learners. Although the syllabus is freely world-readable, the forums, blogs, and live-sessions are limited to committed participants. This will be the fourth time that this course has been convened. I've learned a great deal about facilitating this community from my co-learners along the way.If you are seriously interested, let me know, and I'll notify you when it's time to pay me via PayPal.

2012/12/282012/12/29

Mini-Me: Sandy Hook Massacre — Still Conflicted

Collective Intelligence, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government, IO Deeds of War, Law Enforcement, Media

Huh?

Sandy Hook: Huge Hoax and Anti-Gun “Psy Op”

By Jim Fetzer and Dennis Cimino

Jim Fetzer, a former Marine Corps officer, is McKnight Professor Emeritus at the University of Minnesota Duluth.

Dennis Cimino, who has extensive engineering and support experience with military electronics, predominantly US Navy Combat Systems, was the Navy’s top EMI troubleshooter before he went to work for Raytheon in the 1980s.

There are obvious signs that tell the difference between genuine and fabricated event. The recent shooting of police and firemen responding to a deliberately-set fire has all the signs of being a bona fide event: there is a single consistent narrative, one shooter has been clearly identified, and there has been no good reason to doubt that the subject, William Spengler, went off the rails and committed the crimes. There are many articles about it, which relate the same basic themes: “Killer of 2 NY Firemen had semiautomatic rifle, left note”: “Police say the man who lured firefighters in Webster, N.Y., into a deadly ambush had the same make and caliber semiautomatic rifle as the one used in the Connecticut school massacre. Webster Police Chief Gerald Pickering said Tuesday that 62-year-old William Spengler was armed with a .223-caliber Bushmaster rifle, a .38-caliber revolver and a 12-gauge shotgun in Monday’s ambush. Spengler killed two firefighters and wounded two others before fatally shooting himself.”

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2012/12/242012/12/24

Anthony Judge: Beyond the 12, Past the 13, Into New Spheres of Understanding

Advanced Cyber/IO, Collective Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence

Imaginative Reconfiguration of a post-Apocalyptic Global Civilization

Engaging cognitively with the illusion of the “End of the World”

Introduction
Imaginative patterns of global reconfiguration
Sphere packing as a fundamental spatio-temporal pattern
Transition to 14-fold patterning — transcending the problematic challenge of 13
Dynamics associated with a 14-fold pattern
Ends and edges understood cognitively in spatio-temporal terms
Towards the challenges of the 15th “b'ak'tun”?
Conclusion
References

Phi Beta Iota: Concise but very deep, very provocative. 13 is the Maonic “New World Order” magic number, containing the 12, these reflections from Anthony Judge are very pertinent to moving beyond the 13, toward the self-healing open source everything.

2012/12/192012/12/19

Reference: Atlantic Council Envisioning 2030: US Strategy for a Post-Western World

02 China, 05 Iran, 06 Russia, Collective Intelligence, Commercial Intelligence, Communities of Practice, Earth Intelligence, Ethics, IO Impotency, Officers Call, Peace Intelligence, Strategy, White Papers

Document: Envisioning 2030: US Strategy for a Post-Western World (Atlantic Council, 10 December 2030)

Executive Summary

Agree that we are at a potentially historic transition point. However, the Atlantic Council lacks the strategic analytic model to make the most of its otherwise formidable brain trust. Agree on the need for a new mental map, but they chose the wrong map. See the HourGlass Strategy as an alternative (also below the line).

The report misses multiple big possibilities including the eight tribes, M4IS2, and OSE.

1. Frame second-term policies from a more strategic and long-term perspective, recognizing the magnitude of the moment and the likelihood that the United States’ actions now will have generational consequences.

Absolutely. Understanding emergent public governance trends rooted in true cost and whole system analytics, which harness the distributed intelligence of the five billion poor, not in this report.

2. Continue to emphasize what has been called “nation-building at home” as the first foreign policy priority, without neglecting its global context.

Left unsaid is the need to establish a plan, coincident with the creation of a 450-ship Navy, a long-haul Air Force, and an air-liftable Army, to close most of our military bases around the world, and bring all of our troops – and their purchasing power – home.

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2012/12/172012/12/18

Berto Jongman: Cyber-World Crisis of Legitimacy and Representation

Advanced Cyber/IO, Collective Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence

The crisis of legitimacy and representation

Matthew Carpenter-Arevalo

ForumBlog.org, Dec 17th, 2012

The ongoing spat between the cyber community and the United Nation’s International Telecommunications Union (ITU) reveals a much larger crisis that the world is increasingly facing – the crisis of the legitimacy of representation.

The UN and the Internet are arguably two of humanity’s greatest accomplishments of the 20th century: both bring the world closer by facilitating dialogue and though each has its flaws most would agree that the world is a better place because of their creation.

With so much in common then, why do the two communities find themselves embroiled in conflict?

The underlying issue, I would argue, is that in the same way the United Nations changed the world’s expectations around how problems are solved, so too is the Internet in bringing about a sea change in how citizens expect to be represented in both government and markets.

The UN was designed based on the principle of representative government. As citizens, our voices are represented via a proxy delegate appointed by the proxy government charged with representing our will.

This system, when implemented well, has succeeded in reducing violent conflict, increasing qualities of life and reducing civil strife by empowering citizens with the means to provide an input into their governance.

The digital revolution and direct popular representation

The conflict we’re beginning to see comes from the fact that the tools of the Internet are enabling individuals to represent themselves in conversations previously managed by proxy representatives.

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2012/12/172012/12/17