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I would like to thank the few people who have had some positive reactions to the idea of forming a think tank out of the Obama
movement. Here is, i hope, a clarification of what i am proposing, and how it would work.
1. The idea here hinges on the simple observation that 99 percent of the current discussion is about "manufactured distractions"
and things which are temporal; will not make any difference six months from now.
The question becomes, how to transform the discussion to something that does not merely play into the old style
of politics, but which embraces Obamas ideas for participatory government and transforming the discussion to the real
issues; both simultaneously.
2. The best answer is that we can best support Obama by forcing the media, and everybody else to step up out of the gutter
tabloid game, and to begin the first truly adult discussion of the issues ever; give that we now have mass communication
which can support such a dialogue.
3. The largest problem with this is that most people have never stopped to consider themselves as problem solvers,
just more or less as cheerleaders. Cheerleading a campaign along is what we have been programmed to do, and it was
all we really could do before mass communication leveled the playing field. We are missing our opportunity, and we
are even worse squandering our energy, rather than realize that our true power collectively now is to become
problem solvers.
4. Obamas Platform and Planks, like any politicians, can only reflect the information he has been fed or which he has
been able to uncover. They are the works of a single indvidual. They are inspired, brilliant, and will work. But
in order to work, the details will have to be ironed out. Normally this would be done years from now by the cabinet
and assorted staff, and involved hundreds of professional minds. This always gets us the same problem; One hundred
minds programmed by washington really don't come together to be that smart. And more importantly, millions of minds
coming together to solve these problems will have as a whole more information, more depth, and more ability to look
into real cause and effect and real possible futures. The best way to support Obama is thus to research a plank,
and to visualize oneself as a simulated cabinet member, who is responsible now to put the flesh and details on
thes platform ideas, and to solve our real problems.
5. How that works as a group is that different people focusing on different planks end up as nodes which become
organized by the interdisciplinary folks, like myself. Simplifying some, a single person acts as a node which
the other nodes connect to. 500 nodes report back to the main central node. Each of those 500 nodes is a person
operating independantly, working on solving a problem, researching a platform plank, and so forth.
6. To start, the participants simply change their self definition and their frames of reference, go to obamas platform,
and pick 1 or 5 platform planks. They then run google searches on the main words, look at the problems and issues,
and look at possible details which advance those ideas. They may want to look at other candidates platform planks,
for comparison, and then model how different ideas about how to solve the problems would really play out in reality.
7. This means all i can really do to start it is to tell people how it would work and how it is done. Then they
have to realize the rest is up to them, and begin to act intelligently and rightly on their own. By reporting back
to all of the rest of us, they will link back into the collective intelligence, and then the true discussion begins'
when 50 or 100 people who have researched a plank get together online and discuss what they have found.
8. They then distill their findings down to the most important points, and create internet documents which are then
sent to as many different groups, forums, bbses, and etc as is possible, thus drawing in more people to the process,
and pushing the collective dialogue upward.
9. As things congeal, in theory what would happen is a threshold is reached at which point the effort will require its
own website, with a wiki, a bbs, a video gallery, and an image gallery.
10. Eventually, what forms is a citizen driven open source think tank which can then replace the old style of presidential
cabinet. Such would be clearly more democratic, would provide advice to the president an order of magnitude more evolved
and more informed,l and would give the candidate a clear picture of many different viewpoints, rather than allow
things to get mired in groupthink.
11. This destroys the ability of the media to run the conversation, and to keep the conversation stupid.
12. It involves the people in a more democratic problem solving process
13. This makes our governments capacity to solve real world problems much smarter, faster, and genuinely real;
(They haven't been solving problems, just making things worse for the most part, for about 50 years now, because the problems
are to complicated for the process that exists to comprehend, let alone address or come up with real solutions.)
14. So to start, just go to the platform, pick a platform plank, and then take it to google.
15. Once you have a good long list of external references, read up on the info yourself.
16. Then, think about the problem and see if you can come up with any additional useful ideas or information
on how to solve the problem.
17. then report back to the collective group what you have found.
18. It more or less keeps going on in new iterations and new circles, except that future iterations are done
starting not just from the platform planks, but from the previous work of other people.
19. The most important question to answer is ; if you were president, how would you solve the problem?
I hope that this clarifies the idea, how it works, and the simple actions to take to participate in transforming
the body politic into something that serves US instead of something that keeps us stuck.
Its time to quit playing the old game, and to see ourselves as the problem solvers, not just the cheerleaders and voters.
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the king of the goblins
is tired and old
he lives there insidhe an inner veil in your soul
he needs you
he feeds you
he calls you to play
in the goblin riddle,
how are the fey today?
He is the builder of your daydreams
hes the sandman of your mind
look within and down the rabbit hole
cross Daa'ats labyrinth you may find
up the tree, solve the riddle, find the keys
in the temples of the
collective psy key
Hes the confused architect of your nightmares
he visualization, hes flight
in an inner dimension
psychonautical heights
Hes that still small echoing whisper of metatron,
within your own merkaba sphere
he is yeungs unconscious, he is hunas inner sphere.
He's the inhabitant and rent payer in the
slums of your fantasies
and the differences between possible and
current realities
hes utopia and dystopia strung wrought round cross the stream
of the river lythe
hes within you; but only you can bring him to life....
He is access to infinite cosmic memory,
he is quantum informations fiddle strings
he is the flute of pan, the song of the sirens,
and the call of all the muses;
he is a secret and unsecret, inner cosm god
a you you when in body got lost and forgot
He is the solution to every problem,
but he himself is so confused
hes the darker inner subliminated part of you
And you build the world he lives in
and over which he has no control
a land of symbols and psychic landscapes
the landscapes of the heart and soul
he is the journey through the labyrinth
he is what awaits us at the end
he is the reaper, and our guardian angel
Hes the best that god could send
He is the nymph of the river lythe and the figment of our dreams
he is us in the looking glass mirror,
darkened so it seems...
He is the tao returning back to polarity
he is the leaper in the corn
he is the White buffalo
He is the oak and holly, killed and then reborn
he is every last hero god and
every religious martyr that has ever been invented
He is what we anthropomorphize in a million different
ways of cultures,
And he is waiting, there at the precipice of halfway,
for humanity to awaken from its long and tragic slumber
and remember him; and how to organize him and put him as
humpty dumpty back together again.
He is animus and animae. He is SHE. Across the looking glass,
gender is irrelevant. You should see a manual of Galactic Sex organs
from different planets, its comedy.
Spiritual force is without gender. Yet it does harbour latent polarity.
This polarity tends towards genetic differentiation via sharing
lifecodes. Methods of sharing lifecodes is thus not written directly into
the first layer of the adam kadmon holomorphic fractal.
The Cosms Gender polarity, if it could be said to have one at all,
is a standing waveform between the two polarities as two phase states.
Kundalini is one variation of phenomenization of that primal polarity.
However, kundalini is shaped by the human configuration of chakras, and the flow
from first to third. This makes the human variety of psychosexual energy rare
in the cosmos. Buit then, you didn't think that aliens only had bumps on their faces, did you?
lol.
Cosmic perspective of the collective psyche yeilds not only the quantum imprinted memories of
humanity, but of the whole of time; all the timelines that have ever been and all the timelines that could
ever be; with all of the cultures, civilizations, and societies that have ever existed, or will ever exist,
written, nearly accidentally, in the tenuous fabric of Tifert. Every memory, visualization, whole brain quantum
imaging experience ever created is stored in tiferets Hyperspace. A place where there is no time, no space,
no matter, no energy, just pure information. The true basement universe between ours and Keter, the real life
multiple worlds universe across the real life layers of branes.
And thus, having met the king of the goblins and realizing he is me, and learning to chat with him;
Have i gained access to the memories of IT ALL.
Which is all that is really implied by any genuine "spiritual technology"
the genuine capacity to inwardly hyperconnect and thus connect upward in adam fractal scales until
theres clear signal strength enhancement along ones original line of manifestation from keter.
To the extent that any given religion is an attempted blueprint for how to accomplish this reunion,
all of them should be Cherished, and studied, and we should attempt to glean as much information as we can
from them before we move on....
To actually having that cosmic perspective...
rendering all mere mortal religions, arguments, opinions, ...and manufactured distractions irrelevant.
By definition thus, the litmus test for any true monk is the question of wether he can make either positive or negative
sense out of ANY paradigm.
Postive sense means that the monk can tell you all about the grand tour of the religion (or, translate roughly on the spot)
The gems which can be found amidst it all.
Negative means that s/he can tell you what the flaws and errors are, as the original experience of spirituality is then
enlisted to represent and serve assorted political and social enterprises, and how this fundamental problem of culture
distorts and decays the paradigm over time, until all good religions become mere shells of their former selves, and none
of them can deliver.
The key to making any religion deliver is to study it in its historic context in depth. The mere surface will not provide
(Sadly, in this common era, thereby by the cosmic standard defining Humanity as still barbaric) enough lift to actually
instill ethics, moral reasoning, personal emotional self management, or any of the benefits that come with actually making it
work.
The best reason to study ALL of the religions is because the real truth is that each one points in a very vague way towards the
ultimate truth; but as a whole set, they hyper locute a collective inference; they all point from very different cultures towards
common themes and centers. But each explores this differently enough that each gives us different useful clues.
The best reason to give up such a study is if a person attains cosmic perspective.
From the point of view of cosmic perspective, all of your cultures social and economic problems are very easy to resolve,
its just the greed of some people and the ignorance of them and others that is driving problems.
By simply employing science and technology without propaganda warfare, we can easilly advance to another level
of technology at least insofar as a new infrastructure to support a Geothermally centered energy grid, Magnetic levitation
trains, cable cars, and electric cars.
Throw in permacultured Arcologies, and a possible Utopia from where we are now certainly does start to take shape.
The mind of the normal human is consumed with information that does not matter. Even slightly. Television, movies, games,
one half of what they call education, and for most people, all of what is called socializing is just more re-enforcements of the mental
cage created to keep humans as wage slave cows.
The trumping paradox is that geek power is slowly gaining momentum and enormous energy potential against alpha dominant, kunckle dragging
sadist bullies and tyrants.
The trumping power is that the King of the goblins exists; waiting for you, there, on the other sidhe of the veil.
If you can solv ethe labyrinth, you can gain access to "Visions" and thus, in theory (and in many layered levels)
access to any information in the universe.
The trumping power is that intelligences primary contributing factors are not size of brain or race, or gender, or culture
per sey; Intelligence is not about the difference physically between the brain of a genius and the brain of a moron. the primary
contributing factor is the SOFTWARE, not the Hardware. Genius is available in theory to anybody who is willing to work for it.
And so is cosmic perspective. Because Genius is in a sense halfway to cosmic perspective, you can see Genius as a sort of intermittent
phase potential between a certain kind of awake and asleep spectrum. Normal consciousness is a form of sleeping. Cosmic perspective is a form
of awakening. Genius is a form of Dreaming.
(And thats a weak metaphor in some ways....)
The trumping power is that between now and death, everybody will meet the king/Queen of the goblins; there is no escape.
If you meet before death and work things out, in the afterlife, this becomes the leviathan one gets to ride, and the Genie
tour guide. But if one does not work it out before one dies, the leviathan comes, swallows you, and takes you to some grand illusion
of inflated pseudo space time located in the swirling vortexy bubble froth of Tiferet.
The mind of the normal human is consumed with information that does not matter. Even slightly.
What matters is perhaps best put forth by buddhisms concepts of right intention and right action. Idealism can be dangerous.
I will give you some examples, since today i'm not bothering to hide being god.
Israel conquered that turf on its own, it didn't have Gods blessing, permission, or instructions to commit multiple genocides
(Which the jews themselves record in the tanakh.)
As far as the modern argument goes; Israel doesn't have a "Right" to "Exist". It is merely a two timer conquering nation using genocide
as a means to take turf.
Idealism tells us that thus, according to absolute Ethics, Israelis and Jews should be moved out of that turf, and the turf should be
given back to the true natives. The problem is this. Thats not a problem solution, its an extremist position based on ethical absolutism
as applied from a specific prism. The simple fact of the matter is; The Jews are THERE. The problem resolves most efficiently if you leave
everybody more or less where they ARE right NOW. The DIFFERENCE which is critical is that EVERBODIES PRIMARY SURVIVAL NEEDS SHOULD BE MET.
Otherwise, the USA would be handing its land back to Its natives, and somehow, i don't think theres all that much room in Europe.
Same thing all over the place. Humans immigrate. They steal turf from each other. Its tragic, but the solution is to stop the turf stealing by
MAKING WHERE YOU ARE PLEASANT ENOUGH THAT YOU AREN'T WILLING TO BLOW YOURSELF UP OVER IT ANY MORE.
Not trying to move whole populations around and displace them.
Human perspective in this time and age is a problem because its going from a very bad solution to other equally bad or worse solutions.
Biofuels and Nuclear power is not solution; its expensive toxicity thats easy to thus SELL. Geothermal power and Solar power are grossly
underated in how they could perform by the propaganda BS artists. Geothermal power and Solar power could alone meet all of our energy needs
with only a very small amount of money relativistically speaking spent on it; About twice the money to drill a geothermal power station as
to drill an oil well, but a limitless supply of energy once the well is operating.
Cleaner by a long shot than surface hydrothermal ecology wrecking experiments, and not dangerously toxic for millenia to come,
the adam kadmon fractal contemplated this very problem for you. It made the sun and the center of the earth HOT so that you could get energy both
ways.
A lot of problems resolve as one sees the primal fractals at play in the forces of nature or the architectures behind them.
Gods perspective sees a very simple set of songs which generate vibratic resonances with each other and thus inflate space and time
and create the potentials for light, matter, and energy.
All physical patterns are based on the same fractal equations of valence and orbit and phase state. Matter is constructed at its assorted
levels by energy orbiting itself at different scales and phase states.Planets, Stars, Galaxies, and Galactic clusters mimic these patterns at the gravitational
macro scale. Each force of nature is another appliction of the same scalar fractal math applied at a different scale. The weak force, the strong
force, Electricity, atomic bonding, Chemical bonding, all are based on the same simple lines of a standing wave "flower of life" pattern.
The human body, or any animal or plant is yet another expression of those fractal scalar energies playing out in the scale of biochemistry.
The universe is scalar, fractal, holomorphic, A giant computational device held together by the quantum memory thats hopping from
discrete location to other discrete location at infinite velocity. This property hyperconnects everything.
Some of the quanta in your body right now just arrived there from alpha centauri, and some of them are about to hop back there.
The whole universe is written under itself in the quantum information present in any part of it. The image is of course VERY sparse;
Depending on how much of the universe you can get a sample of. The truth of this question for a human machine is that we can sample at most
about an single adam kadmon inflation outward from ourselves; Ie as large as if you stacked 14 of us on top of each other.
However, thats seven below us and 7 above us.
The other paradox is of course heisenbergs principle, and, unrealizing to current science, as that plays out amongst multiple possible timelines
and mirror universes, that amplifies to something very large.
Our own observations change phase states and energies, at a rate which is relevant to how perfectly we sample. Unless we sample every quanta,
which is impossible, the potential image we could be getting is much rougher than the image we will have to settle for. For this reason, it may
be wiser to allow the sample rate to include at first only the sixth chakra at its current size, because this is within the grasp of most people to sample
fairly easilly if they can obtain true inner silence.
The final end of it all then;
If you can make the self into a silent, waiting, resonance chamber, waiting and still in order to feel the subtlest of vibrations,
you may find that there is another pulse, like the heartbeat, apparently silent, and yet, always present unless sublimated, the pulse
of Keters light falling like a lightning bolt of liquid love into your soul.
Hes waiting for you there. If you have the strength to meet him.
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Wow, suddenly, it seems like everything is coming into phase.
This is great!.
So; there they are. 21 doors.
beyond each of these doors is a problem. Apparently, the 21 biggest problems we face, at least according to Obama.
And allthough Obama has brilliant and eloquent treatment for each of those problems, each of us serves Obama best by thinking
about and working on everything we can think or work on in order to support solving those problems ALONGSIDE Obama.
MyBO blog has some reference info on how i see it happening or going down, how i visualized or tried to communicate what i was trying
to explain how to do it.
"Regarding a meritocratic and fairly governed process"
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I agree that organic growth is best, especially since it will grow most rapidly if room exists to hop sideways.
Further structures will become relevant six months from now.---------------
Therefore, a basic structure allowing sharing of files, mutual contribution to document a la' Wiki feature and a forum at the core should suffice and allow a natural, group-selected value system to form around the issues.
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At first, the big question is where to host ourselves temporarilly. Medium for now determines such features. In the long run, we havea lot of time
to have a branch study up on democracy and communications theory and then get back to us with a proposal.
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Perhaps, like many developer forums, this can be represented by a simple 1-5 reputation rating star system attached to each individual in several categories (thoughts on this?)
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I hadn't really considered this at all. In my mind a genuine meritocracy runs on the value of the words and ideas as analyzed by formal logic. Identity
becomes irrelevant if the information is good (or bad) Its not a bad idea to explore, but i wouldn't want to get hung up in hierarchies either.
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Meanwhile, as a next step, and an initial test "sandbox", I have created Google Groups for two "planks" as listed under the Issues tab on the Obama site (see below). G Groups allows for posting of files, forum discussion threads and even a shared rich-content page publishing feature that looks like it can allow the group to mutually create documents which can be web published and shared on line. If our infrastructure folks out there come up with something better, I'll be happy to help with the heavy lifting to move the content over. I just thought it would be good to get started with something pre-existing and on a platform known for its open and innovative nature.
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Okay, this is my take on this. You have at least moved to the first place of right action concerning the idea; so thanks so very much for actually doing
that. The best way to go viral is to sort of unpack it all here there and everywhere all over the place. Gong viral per sey right now is about 4 weeks off
if everything goes on schedule. But what will happen eventually is we will get our own home site. The google groups will continue on their own, and a sort of network will start with those and other nodes.
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With that, the two "Obama Open Source Cabinet" planks/Issues I am self-selecting are Technology (my current role is advising and working with corporate CIOs on strategy in this area (not technical per se)) and Foreign Policy (my academic background). If anyone is interested in taking up these planks and wants a "sandbox" to play in as we work this out and provide some beginning ideas on these areas per prometheus's general approach, go to:
Technology (strategy and contributing/enabling the greater good per Obama issue description) - groups.google.com/group/oba.../subscribe
Foreign Policy (per Obama issue description) - groups.google.com/group/oba.../subscribe
Okay, I guess that means i'll go make about five or ten to join you. Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(plus, i have stuff to add to both of yours!)
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 20:07:14 -0400
To: CitizenStrategyThinkTank@groups.barackobama.com
From: thor@thinkresults.com
Subject: [CitizenStrategyThinkTank] Re: RE: Spam:*******, Re: RE: Re: CitizenStrategyThinkTank Digest, April 28th
Dena - that's great. To keep this simple and focused, I suggest reviewing the "Issues" as listed on the Obama site and checking one or two of greatest interest - there's your plank! Perhaps "Economy" would be a good fit for you as it addresses Labor, middle-class tax relief, trade...
To help everyone with this, I took the liberty of listing the Barack "Issues" all out in link format below. Just click and it will take you to Barack's agenda for each. PLUS, this would be a great email to send to someone trying to pass the old "well, he gives a great speech, but what's his plan?". How about 21 of them!
Now - in the "opensource" grassroots spirit, to repeat previous suggestions, I also suggest everyone doing this open a group of your own once you pick an Issue/Plank as a central storehouse for you and any that might join to share info and create some strategies/talking points/1-pagers, etc... There are options out there as prev. discussed, while I found google groups about as easy if not easier then joining MYBO. Go to: groups.google.com. Yahoo has this as well - but I do not know if they have the feature set. And of course, there are others who seem to be creating their own. Then in the spirit of sharing, we can all start looping back here with our findings.
OK - enough - I'll try to be more pithy in future posts (that's for the English major ;).
Enjoy,
Thor
Civil Rights
Disabilities
Economy
Education
Energy & Environment
Ethics
Faith
Family
Fiscal
Foreign Policy
Healthcare
Homeland Security
Immigration
Iraq
Poverty
Rural
Service
Seniors & Social Security
Technology
Urban Policy
Veterans
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 5:27 PM, dena langdon <dena@vitelcom.net> wrote:
I am enthusiastic about your plans and following them with great interest. I'm not a techie but am speaker, writer, retired labor lawyer, was a professor of law, English, speech, and French. Feel free to let me know where I can help e.g.,--got an appropriate plank?
From: Thor [mailto:thor@thinkresults.com]
Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 5:53 PM
To: Citizen Strategy Think Tank
Subject: Spam:*******, [CitizenStrategyThinkTank] Re: RE: Re: CitizenStrategyThinkTank Digest, April 28th
Count me in. This type of direct involvement is why I am here and have been an Obama supporter since he ran for Senate.
CSTT and the format of this listserv provide a great, initial idea generator. I have become thoroughly addicted to all of your good recommendations and have used many of them - Thank you! - and plan to contribute more myself. This next-level structure of an "OpenSource Cabinet" as described by prometheus is not only a full demonstration of C21 citizenship but a great process for creating strong issue-based messages to help Obama win now.
With that in mind, I'd like to get started on this now and have one way to do that below. Meanwhile, FWIW, following are some suggestions regarding the structure and approach and then some action stuff at the end:
Regarding a meritocratic and fairly governed process - I am thinking this will grow organically as it has in this forum. We may be constrained if we try to create some upfront centralized structure of rankings and word counts to judge merit. After all, yesterday's subject matter expert may be over-ridden by the complete newbie with a sharper, outsider's insight today. The 7 word reply (especially in this campaign) might be of greater value and cause more positive change than the three page treatise.
Therefore, a basic structure allowing sharing of files, mutual contribution to document a la' Wiki feature and a forum at the core should suffice and allow a natural, group-selected value system to form around the issues. Perhaps, like many developer forums, this can be represented by a simple 1-5 reputation rating star system attached to each individual in several categories (thoughts on this?) which all members can equally vote on. Heck - my reward is seeing anything I do make a difference - but that can just be my optimistic, naive nature ;-) But a little recognition goes a long way - so I am open on this one.
Meanwhile, as a next step, and an initial test "sandbox", I have created Google Groups for two "planks" as listed under the Issues tab on the Obama site (see below). G Groups allows for posting of files, forum discussion threads and even a shared rich-content page publishing feature that looks like it can allow the group to mutually create documents which can be web published and shared on line. If our infrastructure folks out there come up with something better, I'll be happy to help with the heavy lifting to move the content over. I just thought it would be good to get started with something pre-existing and on a platform known for its open and innovative nature.
With that, the two "Obama Open Source Cabinet" planks/Issues I am self-selecting are Technology (my current role is advising and working with corporate CIOs on strategy in this area (not technical per se)) and Foreign Policy (my academic background). If anyone is interested in taking up these planks and wants a "sandbox" to play in as we work this out and provide some beginning ideas on these areas per prometheus's general approach, go to:
Technology (strategy and contributing/enabling the greater good per Obama issue description) - groups.google.com/group/oba.../subscribe
Foreign Policy (per Obama issue description) - groups.google.com/group/oba.../subscribe
Note: you will need to setup a Google account if you have not already. If you have any issues with the links, send me a direct email and I will send you a direct invitation to the group you want to join.
Enjoy,
Thor
PS - NO - I do not work for Google! :-)
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 11:47 AM, prometheuspan panprometheus <prometheuspan@hotmail.com> wrote:
Its nice to finally find some people on the same wavelength. Very encouraging for me.
I'm not sure about how to leverage or reward participation, thats an interesting set of variables i hadn't really thought about...
I am much more interested in how to fairly "govern" the effort, how to distill out good ideas from bad ones, how to deal with trolls,
how to deal with providing support to the transition teams, how to emulate first a think tank, then the transition teams, and then the cabinet...
So those are the kinds of details that are on my mind.
In a meritocratic system, there are two main things i would suggest. The first is to reward people for participating by giving people
community participation points per word. Keeping track of posts and the number of words per post. Then assigning values to different participation levels,
such as "Novice", "Journey person" "Top contributor" And "Problem solver." The second thing is that i think things should be formatted to cycle continually
through a voting process, or a polling process of the participants. A third point is that people should work for and earn titles relevant to specific issues,
such as "Education Participant" or "Energy Brainstormer" or "Health researcher" or "Education Expert."
peace and light
prometheuspan
> Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 08:49:27 -0400
> To: CitizenStrategyThinkTank@groups.barackobama.com
> From: kcaudle.docorp@gmail.com
> Subject: [CitizenStrategyThinkTank] Re: CitizenStrategyThinkTank Digest, April 28th
>
> prometheuspan - Amen
> However, to appeal to the blue-collar vote, we need something that they will get. Without reading...
>
> "As things congeal, in theory what would happen is a threshold is reached at which point the effort will require its own website, with a wiki, a bbs, a video gallery, and an image gallery"
>
> You and I are on the same wavelength. I was dreaming about this last night because I started thinking we needed something (I do that sometimes) about what we need to get all the issues into a format that we can all use to get the best ideas put forward. I happen to be going to a promotion ceremony on Wednesday for one of my best Friends in DC - she made LtCol (Air Force). She came up with a mechanism that I'm helping her get put into use in the Government - sort of an ebay-like idea exchange. We used it to emulate an UN vote for support to Pakistan last year.
> Something that we can post needs - and people provide ideas to solve the problem - the "money" is credits or other non-monetary values such as points toward promotions etc. This is sort of what we need to help infrastructure wise. Look how many people put forward videos and commercials on the Obama in 30 sec! Over 1200 videos...
> If we use many "free" resources - we can make this type of thing work for us.
>
> What are they using on the Obama Exchange? I've not looked at it - didn't know where the link was or if it was behind the firewalls.
> By the way - infrastructure - that is my strength...
>
> Kelley
movement. Here is, i hope, a clarification of what i am proposing, and how it would work.
1. The idea here hinges on the simple observation that 99 percent of the current discussion is about "manufactured distractions"
and things which are temporal; will not make any difference six months from now.
The question becomes, how to transform the discussion to something that does not merely play into the old style
of politics, but which embraces Obamas ideas for participatory government and transforming the discussion to the real
issues; both simultaneously.
2. The best answer is that we can best support Obama by forcing the media, and everybody else to step up out of the gutter
tabloid game, and to begin the first truly adult discussion of the issues ever; give that we now have mass communication
which can support such a dialogue.
3. The largest problem with this is that most people have never stopped to consider themselves as problem solvers,
just more or less as cheerleaders. Cheerleading a campaign along is what we have been programmed to do, and it was
all we really could do before mass communication leveled the playing field. We are missing our opportunity, and we
are even worse squandering our energy, rather than realize that our true power collectively now is to become
problem solvers.
4. Obamas Platform and Planks, like any politicians, can only reflect the information he has been fed or which he has
been able to uncover. They are the works of a single indvidual. They are inspired, brilliant, and will work. But
in order to work, the details will have to be ironed out. Normally this would be done years from now by the cabinet
and assorted staff, and involved hundreds of professional minds. This always gets us the same problem; One hundred
minds programmed by washington really don't come together to be that smart. And more importantly, millions of minds
coming together to solve these problems will have as a whole more information, more depth, and more ability to look
into real cause and effect and real possible futures. The best way to support Obama is thus to research a plank,
and to visualize oneself as a simulated cabinet member, who is responsible now to put the flesh and details on
thes platform ideas, and to solve our real problems.
5. How that works as a group is that different people focusing on different planks end up as nodes which become
organized by the interdisciplinary folks, like myself. Simplifying some, a single person acts as a node which
the other nodes connect to. 500 nodes report back to the main central node. Each of those 500 nodes is a person
operating independantly, working on solving a problem, researching a platform plank, and so forth.
6. To start, the participants simply change their self definition and their frames of reference, go to obamas platform,
and pick 1 or 5 platform planks. They then run google searches on the main words, look at the problems and issues,
and look at possible details which advance those ideas. They may want to look at other candidates platform planks,
for comparison, and then model how different ideas about how to solve the problems would really play out in reality.
7. This means all i can really do to start it is to tell people how it would work and how it is done. Then they
have to realize the rest is up to them, and begin to act intelligently and rightly on their own. By reporting back
to all of the rest of us, they will link back into the collective intelligence, and then the true discussion begins'
when 50 or 100 people who have researched a plank get together online and discuss what they have found.
8. They then distill their findings down to the most important points, and create internet documents which are then
sent to as many different groups, forums, bbses, and etc as is possible, thus drawing in more people to the process,
and pushing the collective dialogue upward.
9. As things congeal, in theory what would happen is a threshold is reached at which point the effort will require its
own website, with a wiki, a bbs, a video gallery, and an image gallery.
10. Eventually, what forms is a citizen driven open source think tank which can then replace the old style of presidential
cabinet. Such would be clearly more democratic, would provide advice to the president an order of magnitude more evolved
and more informed,l and would give the candidate a clear picture of many different viewpoints, rather than allow
things to get mired in groupthink.
11. This destroys the ability of the media to run the conversation, and to keep the conversation stupid.
12. It involves the people in a more democratic problem solving process
13. This makes our governments capacity to solve real world problems much smarter, faster, and genuinely real;
(They haven't been solving problems, just making things worse for the most part, for about 50 years now, because the problems
are to complicated for the process that exists to comprehend, let alone address or come up with real solutions.)
14. So to start, just go to the platform, pick a platform plank, and then take it to google.
15. Once you have a good long list of external references, read up on the info yourself.
16. Then, think about the problem and see if you can come up with any additional useful ideas or information
on how to solve the problem.
17. then report back to the collective group what you have found.
18. It more or less keeps going on in new iterations and new circles, except that future iterations are done
starting not just from the platform planks, but from the previous work of other people.
19. The most important question to answer is ; if you were president, how would you solve the problem?
I hope that this clarifies the idea, how it works, and the simple actions to take to participate in transforming
the body politic into something that serves US instead of something that keeps us stuck.
Its time to quit playing the old game, and to see ourselves as the problem solvers, not just the cheerleaders and voters.
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the king of the goblins
is tired and old
he lives there insidhe an inner veil in your soul
he needs you
he feeds you
he calls you to play
in the goblin riddle,
how are the fey today?
He is the builder of your daydreams
hes the sandman of your mind
look within and down the rabbit hole
cross Daa'ats labyrinth you may find
up the tree, solve the riddle, find the keys
in the temples of the
collective psy key
Hes the confused architect of your nightmares
he visualization, hes flight
in an inner dimension
psychonautical heights
Hes that still small echoing whisper of metatron,
within your own merkaba sphere
he is yeungs unconscious, he is hunas inner sphere.
He's the inhabitant and rent payer in the
slums of your fantasies
and the differences between possible and
current realities
hes utopia and dystopia strung wrought round cross the stream
of the river lythe
hes within you; but only you can bring him to life....
He is access to infinite cosmic memory,
he is quantum informations fiddle strings
he is the flute of pan, the song of the sirens,
and the call of all the muses;
he is a secret and unsecret, inner cosm god
a you you when in body got lost and forgot
He is the solution to every problem,
but he himself is so confused
hes the darker inner subliminated part of you
And you build the world he lives in
and over which he has no control
a land of symbols and psychic landscapes
the landscapes of the heart and soul
he is the journey through the labyrinth
he is what awaits us at the end
he is the reaper, and our guardian angel
Hes the best that god could send
He is the nymph of the river lythe and the figment of our dreams
he is us in the looking glass mirror,
darkened so it seems...
He is the tao returning back to polarity
he is the leaper in the corn
he is the White buffalo
He is the oak and holly, killed and then reborn
he is every last hero god and
every religious martyr that has ever been invented
He is what we anthropomorphize in a million different
ways of cultures,
And he is waiting, there at the precipice of halfway,
for humanity to awaken from its long and tragic slumber
and remember him; and how to organize him and put him as
humpty dumpty back together again.
He is animus and animae. He is SHE. Across the looking glass,
gender is irrelevant. You should see a manual of Galactic Sex organs
from different planets, its comedy.
Spiritual force is without gender. Yet it does harbour latent polarity.
This polarity tends towards genetic differentiation via sharing
lifecodes. Methods of sharing lifecodes is thus not written directly into
the first layer of the adam kadmon holomorphic fractal.
The Cosms Gender polarity, if it could be said to have one at all,
is a standing waveform between the two polarities as two phase states.
Kundalini is one variation of phenomenization of that primal polarity.
However, kundalini is shaped by the human configuration of chakras, and the flow
from first to third. This makes the human variety of psychosexual energy rare
in the cosmos. Buit then, you didn't think that aliens only had bumps on their faces, did you?
lol.
Cosmic perspective of the collective psyche yeilds not only the quantum imprinted memories of
humanity, but of the whole of time; all the timelines that have ever been and all the timelines that could
ever be; with all of the cultures, civilizations, and societies that have ever existed, or will ever exist,
written, nearly accidentally, in the tenuous fabric of Tifert. Every memory, visualization, whole brain quantum
imaging experience ever created is stored in tiferets Hyperspace. A place where there is no time, no space,
no matter, no energy, just pure information. The true basement universe between ours and Keter, the real life
multiple worlds universe across the real life layers of branes.
And thus, having met the king of the goblins and realizing he is me, and learning to chat with him;
Have i gained access to the memories of IT ALL.
Which is all that is really implied by any genuine "spiritual technology"
the genuine capacity to inwardly hyperconnect and thus connect upward in adam fractal scales until
theres clear signal strength enhancement along ones original line of manifestation from keter.
To the extent that any given religion is an attempted blueprint for how to accomplish this reunion,
all of them should be Cherished, and studied, and we should attempt to glean as much information as we can
from them before we move on....
To actually having that cosmic perspective...
rendering all mere mortal religions, arguments, opinions, ...and manufactured distractions irrelevant.
By definition thus, the litmus test for any true monk is the question of wether he can make either positive or negative
sense out of ANY paradigm.
Postive sense means that the monk can tell you all about the grand tour of the religion (or, translate roughly on the spot)
The gems which can be found amidst it all.
Negative means that s/he can tell you what the flaws and errors are, as the original experience of spirituality is then
enlisted to represent and serve assorted political and social enterprises, and how this fundamental problem of culture
distorts and decays the paradigm over time, until all good religions become mere shells of their former selves, and none
of them can deliver.
The key to making any religion deliver is to study it in its historic context in depth. The mere surface will not provide
(Sadly, in this common era, thereby by the cosmic standard defining Humanity as still barbaric) enough lift to actually
instill ethics, moral reasoning, personal emotional self management, or any of the benefits that come with actually making it
work.
The best reason to study ALL of the religions is because the real truth is that each one points in a very vague way towards the
ultimate truth; but as a whole set, they hyper locute a collective inference; they all point from very different cultures towards
common themes and centers. But each explores this differently enough that each gives us different useful clues.
The best reason to give up such a study is if a person attains cosmic perspective.
From the point of view of cosmic perspective, all of your cultures social and economic problems are very easy to resolve,
its just the greed of some people and the ignorance of them and others that is driving problems.
By simply employing science and technology without propaganda warfare, we can easilly advance to another level
of technology at least insofar as a new infrastructure to support a Geothermally centered energy grid, Magnetic levitation
trains, cable cars, and electric cars.
Throw in permacultured Arcologies, and a possible Utopia from where we are now certainly does start to take shape.
The mind of the normal human is consumed with information that does not matter. Even slightly. Television, movies, games,
one half of what they call education, and for most people, all of what is called socializing is just more re-enforcements of the mental
cage created to keep humans as wage slave cows.
The trumping paradox is that geek power is slowly gaining momentum and enormous energy potential against alpha dominant, kunckle dragging
sadist bullies and tyrants.
The trumping power is that the King of the goblins exists; waiting for you, there, on the other sidhe of the veil.
If you can solv ethe labyrinth, you can gain access to "Visions" and thus, in theory (and in many layered levels)
access to any information in the universe.
The trumping power is that intelligences primary contributing factors are not size of brain or race, or gender, or culture
per sey; Intelligence is not about the difference physically between the brain of a genius and the brain of a moron. the primary
contributing factor is the SOFTWARE, not the Hardware. Genius is available in theory to anybody who is willing to work for it.
And so is cosmic perspective. Because Genius is in a sense halfway to cosmic perspective, you can see Genius as a sort of intermittent
phase potential between a certain kind of awake and asleep spectrum. Normal consciousness is a form of sleeping. Cosmic perspective is a form
of awakening. Genius is a form of Dreaming.
(And thats a weak metaphor in some ways....)
The trumping power is that between now and death, everybody will meet the king/Queen of the goblins; there is no escape.
If you meet before death and work things out, in the afterlife, this becomes the leviathan one gets to ride, and the Genie
tour guide. But if one does not work it out before one dies, the leviathan comes, swallows you, and takes you to some grand illusion
of inflated pseudo space time located in the swirling vortexy bubble froth of Tiferet.
The mind of the normal human is consumed with information that does not matter. Even slightly.
What matters is perhaps best put forth by buddhisms concepts of right intention and right action. Idealism can be dangerous.
I will give you some examples, since today i'm not bothering to hide being god.
Israel conquered that turf on its own, it didn't have Gods blessing, permission, or instructions to commit multiple genocides
(Which the jews themselves record in the tanakh.)
As far as the modern argument goes; Israel doesn't have a "Right" to "Exist". It is merely a two timer conquering nation using genocide
as a means to take turf.
Idealism tells us that thus, according to absolute Ethics, Israelis and Jews should be moved out of that turf, and the turf should be
given back to the true natives. The problem is this. Thats not a problem solution, its an extremist position based on ethical absolutism
as applied from a specific prism. The simple fact of the matter is; The Jews are THERE. The problem resolves most efficiently if you leave
everybody more or less where they ARE right NOW. The DIFFERENCE which is critical is that EVERBODIES PRIMARY SURVIVAL NEEDS SHOULD BE MET.
Otherwise, the USA would be handing its land back to Its natives, and somehow, i don't think theres all that much room in Europe.
Same thing all over the place. Humans immigrate. They steal turf from each other. Its tragic, but the solution is to stop the turf stealing by
MAKING WHERE YOU ARE PLEASANT ENOUGH THAT YOU AREN'T WILLING TO BLOW YOURSELF UP OVER IT ANY MORE.
Not trying to move whole populations around and displace them.
Human perspective in this time and age is a problem because its going from a very bad solution to other equally bad or worse solutions.
Biofuels and Nuclear power is not solution; its expensive toxicity thats easy to thus SELL. Geothermal power and Solar power are grossly
underated in how they could perform by the propaganda BS artists. Geothermal power and Solar power could alone meet all of our energy needs
with only a very small amount of money relativistically speaking spent on it; About twice the money to drill a geothermal power station as
to drill an oil well, but a limitless supply of energy once the well is operating.
Cleaner by a long shot than surface hydrothermal ecology wrecking experiments, and not dangerously toxic for millenia to come,
the adam kadmon fractal contemplated this very problem for you. It made the sun and the center of the earth HOT so that you could get energy both
ways.
A lot of problems resolve as one sees the primal fractals at play in the forces of nature or the architectures behind them.
Gods perspective sees a very simple set of songs which generate vibratic resonances with each other and thus inflate space and time
and create the potentials for light, matter, and energy.
All physical patterns are based on the same fractal equations of valence and orbit and phase state. Matter is constructed at its assorted
levels by energy orbiting itself at different scales and phase states.Planets, Stars, Galaxies, and Galactic clusters mimic these patterns at the gravitational
macro scale. Each force of nature is another appliction of the same scalar fractal math applied at a different scale. The weak force, the strong
force, Electricity, atomic bonding, Chemical bonding, all are based on the same simple lines of a standing wave "flower of life" pattern.
The human body, or any animal or plant is yet another expression of those fractal scalar energies playing out in the scale of biochemistry.
The universe is scalar, fractal, holomorphic, A giant computational device held together by the quantum memory thats hopping from
discrete location to other discrete location at infinite velocity. This property hyperconnects everything.
Some of the quanta in your body right now just arrived there from alpha centauri, and some of them are about to hop back there.
The whole universe is written under itself in the quantum information present in any part of it. The image is of course VERY sparse;
Depending on how much of the universe you can get a sample of. The truth of this question for a human machine is that we can sample at most
about an single adam kadmon inflation outward from ourselves; Ie as large as if you stacked 14 of us on top of each other.
However, thats seven below us and 7 above us.
The other paradox is of course heisenbergs principle, and, unrealizing to current science, as that plays out amongst multiple possible timelines
and mirror universes, that amplifies to something very large.
Our own observations change phase states and energies, at a rate which is relevant to how perfectly we sample. Unless we sample every quanta,
which is impossible, the potential image we could be getting is much rougher than the image we will have to settle for. For this reason, it may
be wiser to allow the sample rate to include at first only the sixth chakra at its current size, because this is within the grasp of most people to sample
fairly easilly if they can obtain true inner silence.
The final end of it all then;
If you can make the self into a silent, waiting, resonance chamber, waiting and still in order to feel the subtlest of vibrations,
you may find that there is another pulse, like the heartbeat, apparently silent, and yet, always present unless sublimated, the pulse
of Keters light falling like a lightning bolt of liquid love into your soul.
Hes waiting for you there. If you have the strength to meet him.
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Wow, suddenly, it seems like everything is coming into phase.
This is great!.
So; there they are. 21 doors.
beyond each of these doors is a problem. Apparently, the 21 biggest problems we face, at least according to Obama.
And allthough Obama has brilliant and eloquent treatment for each of those problems, each of us serves Obama best by thinking
about and working on everything we can think or work on in order to support solving those problems ALONGSIDE Obama.
MyBO blog has some reference info on how i see it happening or going down, how i visualized or tried to communicate what i was trying
to explain how to do it.
"Regarding a meritocratic and fairly governed process"
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I agree that organic growth is best, especially since it will grow most rapidly if room exists to hop sideways.
Further structures will become relevant six months from now.---------------
Therefore, a basic structure allowing sharing of files, mutual contribution to document a la' Wiki feature and a forum at the core should suffice and allow a natural, group-selected value system to form around the issues.
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At first, the big question is where to host ourselves temporarilly. Medium for now determines such features. In the long run, we havea lot of time
to have a branch study up on democracy and communications theory and then get back to us with a proposal.
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Perhaps, like many developer forums, this can be represented by a simple 1-5 reputation rating star system attached to each individual in several categories (thoughts on this?)
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I hadn't really considered this at all. In my mind a genuine meritocracy runs on the value of the words and ideas as analyzed by formal logic. Identity
becomes irrelevant if the information is good (or bad) Its not a bad idea to explore, but i wouldn't want to get hung up in hierarchies either.
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Meanwhile, as a next step, and an initial test "sandbox", I have created Google Groups for two "planks" as listed under the Issues tab on the Obama site (see below). G Groups allows for posting of files, forum discussion threads and even a shared rich-content page publishing feature that looks like it can allow the group to mutually create documents which can be web published and shared on line. If our infrastructure folks out there come up with something better, I'll be happy to help with the heavy lifting to move the content over. I just thought it would be good to get started with something pre-existing and on a platform known for its open and innovative nature.
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Okay, this is my take on this. You have at least moved to the first place of right action concerning the idea; so thanks so very much for actually doing
that. The best way to go viral is to sort of unpack it all here there and everywhere all over the place. Gong viral per sey right now is about 4 weeks off
if everything goes on schedule. But what will happen eventually is we will get our own home site. The google groups will continue on their own, and a sort of network will start with those and other nodes.
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With that, the two "Obama Open Source Cabinet" planks/Issues I am self-selecting are Technology (my current role is advising and working with corporate CIOs on strategy in this area (not technical per se)) and Foreign Policy (my academic background). If anyone is interested in taking up these planks and wants a "sandbox" to play in as we work this out and provide some beginning ideas on these areas per prometheus's general approach, go to:
Technology (strategy and contributing/enabling the greater good per Obama issue description) - groups.google.com/group/oba.../subscribe
Foreign Policy (per Obama issue description) - groups.google.com/group/oba.../subscribe
Okay, I guess that means i'll go make about five or ten to join you. Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(plus, i have stuff to add to both of yours!)
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 20:07:14 -0400
To: CitizenStrategyThinkTank@groups.barackobama.com
From: thor@thinkresults.com
Subject: [CitizenStrategyThinkTank] Re: RE: Spam:*******, Re: RE: Re: CitizenStrategyThinkTank Digest, April 28th
Dena - that's great. To keep this simple and focused, I suggest reviewing the "Issues" as listed on the Obama site and checking one or two of greatest interest - there's your plank! Perhaps "Economy" would be a good fit for you as it addresses Labor, middle-class tax relief, trade...
To help everyone with this, I took the liberty of listing the Barack "Issues" all out in link format below. Just click and it will take you to Barack's agenda for each. PLUS, this would be a great email to send to someone trying to pass the old "well, he gives a great speech, but what's his plan?". How about 21 of them!
Now - in the "opensource" grassroots spirit, to repeat previous suggestions, I also suggest everyone doing this open a group of your own once you pick an Issue/Plank as a central storehouse for you and any that might join to share info and create some strategies/talking points/1-pagers, etc... There are options out there as prev. discussed, while I found google groups about as easy if not easier then joining MYBO. Go to: groups.google.com. Yahoo has this as well - but I do not know if they have the feature set. And of course, there are others who seem to be creating their own. Then in the spirit of sharing, we can all start looping back here with our findings.
OK - enough - I'll try to be more pithy in future posts (that's for the English major ;).
Enjoy,
Thor
Civil Rights
Disabilities
Economy
Education
Energy & Environment
Ethics
Faith
Family
Fiscal
Foreign Policy
Healthcare
Homeland Security
Immigration
Iraq
Poverty
Rural
Service
Seniors & Social Security
Technology
Urban Policy
Veterans
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 5:27 PM, dena langdon <dena@vitelcom.net> wrote:
I am enthusiastic about your plans and following them with great interest. I'm not a techie but am speaker, writer, retired labor lawyer, was a professor of law, English, speech, and French. Feel free to let me know where I can help e.g.,--got an appropriate plank?
From: Thor [mailto:thor@thinkresults.com]
Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 5:53 PM
To: Citizen Strategy Think Tank
Subject: Spam:*******, [CitizenStrategyThinkTank] Re: RE: Re: CitizenStrategyThinkTank Digest, April 28th
Count me in. This type of direct involvement is why I am here and have been an Obama supporter since he ran for Senate.
CSTT and the format of this listserv provide a great, initial idea generator. I have become thoroughly addicted to all of your good recommendations and have used many of them - Thank you! - and plan to contribute more myself. This next-level structure of an "OpenSource Cabinet" as described by prometheus is not only a full demonstration of C21 citizenship but a great process for creating strong issue-based messages to help Obama win now.
With that in mind, I'd like to get started on this now and have one way to do that below. Meanwhile, FWIW, following are some suggestions regarding the structure and approach and then some action stuff at the end:
Regarding a meritocratic and fairly governed process - I am thinking this will grow organically as it has in this forum. We may be constrained if we try to create some upfront centralized structure of rankings and word counts to judge merit. After all, yesterday's subject matter expert may be over-ridden by the complete newbie with a sharper, outsider's insight today. The 7 word reply (especially in this campaign) might be of greater value and cause more positive change than the three page treatise.
Therefore, a basic structure allowing sharing of files, mutual contribution to document a la' Wiki feature and a forum at the core should suffice and allow a natural, group-selected value system to form around the issues. Perhaps, like many developer forums, this can be represented by a simple 1-5 reputation rating star system attached to each individual in several categories (thoughts on this?) which all members can equally vote on. Heck - my reward is seeing anything I do make a difference - but that can just be my optimistic, naive nature ;-) But a little recognition goes a long way - so I am open on this one.
Meanwhile, as a next step, and an initial test "sandbox", I have created Google Groups for two "planks" as listed under the Issues tab on the Obama site (see below). G Groups allows for posting of files, forum discussion threads and even a shared rich-content page publishing feature that looks like it can allow the group to mutually create documents which can be web published and shared on line. If our infrastructure folks out there come up with something better, I'll be happy to help with the heavy lifting to move the content over. I just thought it would be good to get started with something pre-existing and on a platform known for its open and innovative nature.
With that, the two "Obama Open Source Cabinet" planks/Issues I am self-selecting are Technology (my current role is advising and working with corporate CIOs on strategy in this area (not technical per se)) and Foreign Policy (my academic background). If anyone is interested in taking up these planks and wants a "sandbox" to play in as we work this out and provide some beginning ideas on these areas per prometheus's general approach, go to:
Technology (strategy and contributing/enabling the greater good per Obama issue description) - groups.google.com/group/oba.../subscribe
Foreign Policy (per Obama issue description) - groups.google.com/group/oba.../subscribe
Note: you will need to setup a Google account if you have not already. If you have any issues with the links, send me a direct email and I will send you a direct invitation to the group you want to join.
Enjoy,
Thor
PS - NO - I do not work for Google! :-)
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 11:47 AM, prometheuspan panprometheus <prometheuspan@hotmail.com> wrote:
Its nice to finally find some people on the same wavelength. Very encouraging for me.
I'm not sure about how to leverage or reward participation, thats an interesting set of variables i hadn't really thought about...
I am much more interested in how to fairly "govern" the effort, how to distill out good ideas from bad ones, how to deal with trolls,
how to deal with providing support to the transition teams, how to emulate first a think tank, then the transition teams, and then the cabinet...
So those are the kinds of details that are on my mind.
In a meritocratic system, there are two main things i would suggest. The first is to reward people for participating by giving people
community participation points per word. Keeping track of posts and the number of words per post. Then assigning values to different participation levels,
such as "Novice", "Journey person" "Top contributor" And "Problem solver." The second thing is that i think things should be formatted to cycle continually
through a voting process, or a polling process of the participants. A third point is that people should work for and earn titles relevant to specific issues,
such as "Education Participant" or "Energy Brainstormer" or "Health researcher" or "Education Expert."
peace and light
prometheuspan
> Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 08:49:27 -0400
> To: CitizenStrategyThinkTank@groups.barackobama.com
> From: kcaudle.docorp@gmail.com
> Subject: [CitizenStrategyThinkTank] Re: CitizenStrategyThinkTank Digest, April 28th
>
> prometheuspan - Amen
> However, to appeal to the blue-collar vote, we need something that they will get. Without reading...
>
> "As things congeal, in theory what would happen is a threshold is reached at which point the effort will require its own website, with a wiki, a bbs, a video gallery, and an image gallery"
>
> You and I are on the same wavelength. I was dreaming about this last night because I started thinking we needed something (I do that sometimes) about what we need to get all the issues into a format that we can all use to get the best ideas put forward. I happen to be going to a promotion ceremony on Wednesday for one of my best Friends in DC - she made LtCol (Air Force). She came up with a mechanism that I'm helping her get put into use in the Government - sort of an ebay-like idea exchange. We used it to emulate an UN vote for support to Pakistan last year.
> Something that we can post needs - and people provide ideas to solve the problem - the "money" is credits or other non-monetary values such as points toward promotions etc. This is sort of what we need to help infrastructure wise. Look how many people put forward videos and commercials on the Obama in 30 sec! Over 1200 videos...
> If we use many "free" resources - we can make this type of thing work for us.
>
> What are they using on the Obama Exchange? I've not looked at it - didn't know where the link was or if it was behind the firewalls.
> By the way - infrastructure - that is my strength...
>
> Kelley
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