A network based on disagreement will be much stronger than one based on agreement...

N --- On Sat, Oct 11, 2014, Bruce Schuman wrote ---

I think where this is going -- is towards a very simple universal activist interface, designed to support collaboration among all kinds of groups and activists working for a better world.

Basic design to make it work:

• keep it absolutely simple
• weed out all possible controversy and points of disagreement
• make it applicable for every sector and every issue

So, let's say this is a big-picture holistic image of problems/issues in the world -- all interconnected, all critical, all demanding collaborative solutions:

We need a way to get 100,000,000 citizens, or a billion, and thousands of NGOs (non-governmental organizations, activist groups of every kind who see something like this vision, or care passionately about some part of it), all interconnected through a very basic network, in a form that can create a million alliances on every possible interconnected point of concern.

In this holistic/global context, it's about every issue at the same time, at all levels of social organization. Every issue is connected to every other issue, in an interdependent mutually-influencing way. We need to see this, model and map it, and convene a local-point adjudication and balancing of those dimensions at that local point.

Levels of categorization of this process might look like this:

• 12 basic sectors of the "wheel of co-creation", top-down hierarchical taxonomy defined by intergroup consensus
• 15 defined issues of critical international importance
• 12 general areas of concern for any community
• strict hierarchical/scientific taxonomy, rigid categories with bottomless capacity for detail
• organizational/interpersonal correlation, similarities/affinities, points of alliance
• model of neural structure in the human brain

All of this can be extremely fluent, combining the stability of a top-down ("hierarchy") rigid taxonomy with the absolute fluency of bottom-up ("circle") tagging.

This is the essential design for a "universal alliance engine" that can interconnect constructive motivation wherever it arises.

Put simply, this is what we are doing:

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