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The Open Source Everything Manifesto: Chapter 5 Integrity, Lies, and Panarchy Extract II Every major segment of our society–academia, civil society [including labor unions and religions], commerce, government, law enforcement, media, military, and non-government/non-profit–is currently suffering from epidemic lack of integrity, which only gets worse at large scales of operation, leading to implosion from corruption …

The Open Source Everything Manifesto: Chapter 5 Integrity, Lies, and Panarchy Extract I

The Open Source Everything Manifesto: Chapter 5 Extract I In the twenty-first century, intelligence, design, and integrity comprise the triad that matters most.  The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is the non-negotiable starting position for getting it right, and this is crucially important with respect to the sustainability of the Earth …

2012 Reality Sandwich: The Open Source Everything Manifesto

The Open Source Everything Manifesto Robert David Steele Reality Sandwich, 13 June 2012 The following is excerpted from The Open-Source Everything Manifesto: Transparency, Truth, & Trust published by Evolver Editions, an imprint of North Atlantic Books. The circumstances underlying this manifesto are stark and compelling: We are at the end of a five-thousand-year-plus historical process …

The Open Source Everything Manifesto: Chapter 4 Philosophical Concepts Extract III

The Open Source Everything Manifesto: Chapter 4 Philosophical Concepts Extract III Education The core value of universal education must inform the most intrinsic function and principle of a democratic society, in order that self-directed reason is inculcated into the populace. . . . . . . . . . To this end, Durant [in Philosophy …

The Open Source Everything Manifesto: Chapter 4 Philosophical Concepts Extract II

The Open Source Everything Manifesto: Chapter 4 Philosophical Concepts Extract II The sharing of truth in the form of widely available information creates a foundation for cost-effective transparent decisions that are inherently anti-corrupt in nature. . . . . . . . . Where the philosophy gets interesting, even challenging, is when it confronts the …

The Open Source Everything Manifesto: Chapter 4 Philosophical Concepts Extract I

The Open Source Everything Manifesto: Chapter 4 Philosophical Concepts Extract I Truth, Coin of Collective Consciousness When things are not going well, until you get the truth on the table, no matter how ugly, you are not in a position to deal with it. Bob Seelert Truth is the foundation for all discourse and wise …

The Open Source Everything Manifesto: Chapter 3 Manifesto Extract III

The Open Source Everything Manifesto: Chapter 3 Manifesto Extract III Sharing, not secrecy, is the means by which we realize such as 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 …