Emergence - Attention to Improvements

CCQ, Community Consciousness Quotient, Measuring Conscious Capital

CRCCCCC- Connect, reflect, catalyze, communicate = create consensus and community

We understand reality through the tools we use. (When you have a hammer everything looks like a nail, and if you have a screwdriver ......)
When we shifted from hunting  gathering to settled agriculture, the tools also changed. With the change in lifestyles and tools, the mental models, the way we see the world also changes. Farmers and fishermen respond to reality in different ways. It took me a while to understand the logic when I changed my domain from agriculture to fisheries. On the high seas one cannot hold on to much whereas for those of us on terra firma we have many things to hold on to. With the industrial revolution, the tools changed again. More and more people shifted from agriculture and with the expansion of markets, fishermen too were pushed to the boundaries. With machines, those connected with them rose to prominence and we started seeing reality through the machines. The agricultural revolution lasted for around 10,000 years, the industrial for around 500 and during the last 50 years we see the information revolution bringing in a new set of tools, the computer, and the web. We have come to talk about windows, vista, connectivity, community and home and if one is not familiar with the tools, your own mother tongue might sound an alien language. So the tools do influence language, world views and the way we understand reality

The history of lifestyle shifts get shorter. The new tools offer possibilities for a new synthesis, learning from all the major lifestyle shifts, for enhancing community and realizing the higher evolutionary potential of the species.  

Paying attention to improvements, however small they be, is the road to emergence of a more connected world, community, because resistance leads to resistance. Good intentions do not always create good impact. Very often they create the opposite

Gates and Windows  to Learning

Connect and Disconnects

Knowledge, Ignorance

Connected world, Digital divide

Developed, Developing

Rich, Poor

Every conflict, problem, duality is a gate, window , to an opportunity to learn

Devices, Drives, Drivers and Drive Distortions

What drives us also distorts, destroys community

Need to connect arises from the need to know and to express one's SELF

And work is nothing but expressing one's self, the most meaning driven

Creating meaning - the most basic of the survival drives and the most distorted, the primary distortion. Other distortions are secondary, derived from the meaning distortion

IF

life is not meaningful

THEN,

suicide, illness, early death, accidents are ‘natural' corollaries on the Road by Default, the  other road is the Road by Design
 
Priests of science and religion explain the nature of reality in their own languages

The physicist in machine language and logic and the biologist in bio-logic

The BIO-LOGIC is of a higher order than the machine logic

They work in opposing directions, like quantity and quality, more the less
In bio-tech we see these two getting aligned giving us more leverage (longer levers)
In designing improvements
The semantic swamp of disciplines necessitates a new standard, interface, to connect, create community, cross over the semantic swamp, noise, babble, as we connected the machines to communicate with each other

Wanderer speaks, of being English centric,
http://wanderer7.gaia.com/blog/2008/6/being_english-centric We discuss the problem of being language and tool centric and the need for a meta tool, a tool of tools, a Babel Fish (The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy)  to create consensus on the content so that the container - language - is not as important. AK 47 is a tool and the driver could be the terrorist or the peace keeper. What makes them act differently arises from the interface. If we have a Babel Fish, the Point of view gun prevails

Meanwhile let us pay attention, focus on CRCCCCC because what we pay attention to grows, emerges and we become gardeners of permaculture http://konsk.gaia.com reflecting and paying attention to sustained, perma, improvements