From: jc (jcpryor@nccn.net)
Date: Sat Aug 06 2005 - 20:34:30 BST
Ok there was one post I read a while back that commented upon
dot-communism as being interesting rhetoricaly, but North Korea,
China, Cuba, yada yada gulag. Sorry I can't come us with it but let
me just lay out what I mean.
I read a newspaper article sometime long ago that talked about one of
the airlines being bought out by it's employees and comparing this to
communism's dictum that the worker should control the means of
production. So can capitalism and communism unite?
All corporations are in fact, community efforts, community pools of
resources brought together for profit motivations. Communism is
about empowering the individual in the face of capitalistic corporate
powers. The internet is the power of information and collective
thought and decision making. If individuals could combine
effortlessly into organizations created to meet specific economic
conditions, the dynamic evolution of such communal endeavors would
soon surpass the economic efficiency of the existing bloated
corporate giants.
However, that isn't going to happen as long as the same powers
possess in their hands, the entire cultural education. Whereas
mankind used to sit around a fire and repeat stories to one another,
nowadays kids are plopped in front of a tv set well before they can
talk and trained in the assimilation of values dictated by these
corporate giants and according to Pirsig, this is highly immoral. It
is a new breed of national socialism because the media is the
quintessential social medium, entirely anti-intellectual in all
aspects.
The internet is a dynamic counter because it is mainly intellectual.
Intellectual and pornographic. Weird mix, I admit. But the words we
share and the ideas we exchange have the potential of spreading now
that was never possible before.
There are all kinds of powers that humans can gain through communal
action. We can create living neighborhoods consciously with built-in
child support and jobs without commute. (CoHousing) We can examine
collectively all aspects of government from the top to the bottom and
comment upon it if we utilize open source governance.
Information is power. Power over hunger. (Anyone ever hear of
Masanobu Fukuoka?) Spread the wires and invite the dialogue and a
revolution can occur. Dot Communism advocates the immediate overturn
of intellectual property laws. Not the overthrow, but the overturn.
You might think this would restrict thed ability of intellectuals to
profit from their works, but on the contrary, it would free up their
works from enslavement to the capitalistic systems which seek to own
and control. It would also eliminate a lot of lawyers from their
leechlike fix on the system. It would free up creativity. It
would eliminate Microsoft and Hollywood with one blow and turn people
back upon their local community.
The main premise of dotcommunism is that with the right information,
anything is possible. IF information flows freely amongst all
peoples, and the impediments to social evolution are removed, the new
age will be a bright and happy one. Simply by force of the flow of
social good amongst the agregate populations of the earth. I believe
in DQ.
Hopefully,
jc
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