Everywhere. There are thousands, maybe millions, of geeks contributing to open source projects. And there are definitely several million people using open source software. The Internet runs on open source. Unfortunately, proponents don't effectively educate people outside of geekdom about open source or promote to business and civic leaders, most of whom have no idea it exists. Here in Chattanooga we are establishing a buyer/user co-op to make it easy and economical for anyone to access, own, and use open source solutions. I'm sure there are similar initiatives but I haven't found them.
This essay captures something many feel but rarely name — how small systems of control shape our behavior every day. The Hidden Forces, Reclaiming Humanity's Power from Systems of Control, looks at that same pattern on a broader scale: when systems drift from serving human dignity, humans end up serving the system instead. (https://thehiddenforces.substack.com/p/book)
Very good luck to all of you. The only way anyone is going to survive what is coming is through community. Think local, act intergalactic.
You say at the end "... people need a map to learn how to move together." This is so vitally true.
I've drawn up a very basic map for anyone organizing in these times, who wants to put human beings at the very epicentre of every loop in every case.
The situation is now beyond urgent. Please take a good look at this article. I can only assure you that if ANYTHING you are doing coincides with ANYTHING here, you can be certain you are working on the right lines, in sync with the great forces of history.
This system of systems is guaranteed good for the rest of human evolution on this planet. Not many designers can say that. If you are put off by Rudolf Steiner and other esoterica, then just note that the Threefold Platform is entirely the secular product of Fred Malherbe of Substack.
I feel dumb. I don't know how to find the houses in my city that are my last 4 zip code digits. Nothing I Google is showing me. Will continue to try....
We need a public school petal. just sayin'. It's ALL about the future of democracy rather than rule by the American Racist Taliban. And how do you include a "creatives" petal whilst leaving out environmental action in the daisy model? SMH. Coal, data centers, CAFOs - all problems round here that are DIRECTLY a result of oligarchy protected by authoritarianism.
Hi Kyle. You're right to be feel anger in this moment. I do want to point out, however, two things: (1) There are many linked videos attached to the executive summary of the Daisy Chain. Had you engaged with them, you'd have seen that the issues you raise are addressed. (2) You'd also have seen that the point of TDC is to take the loose map and apply it in your neighborhood. As I repeatedly state in my content here: the map is designed to be adapted, not to be perfect. It's easy to shame people who you assume haven't thought about everything. It takes actual courage to choose to apply new ideas in the hope we might collectively effect change. I am not here for armchair activism or undue criticism from impatient people who don't fully engage with my work but think they can leave a snarky capslock comments. That's not the way we get out of this. Please take breaks from the internet. I get angry, too. It's important to walk away, be in your neighborhood, and experience what is good.
This is beautiful. I know many profoundly disabled people whose only role in this can be "receive care" and who are already struggling with receiving sufficient help in the community. The bedbound, the housebound. Hard to imagine our communities supporting us because they generally don't know we exist. But overall I really appreciate your gift of this vision.
The idea is for people to learn who is in their neighborhood. That may include some canvassing on the part of neighbors. I wish I could do the world's largest zoom training, but my mic keeps getting cut on here.
I love the idea of organizing by zip code, and that you describe these different ways of supporting each other (i.e., health, safety, alternative economic supports like trade). It's definitely going against the prevalence of online organizing & communicating but I think an in-person approach is probably more important. This is showing a way it could be done.
When I think about local organizing, I often think about local town governments and school boards, which are often kind of conservative and controlled by people with allegiances to political parties and business interests. Basically, the old way of getting stuff done, which I don't think feels very inspiring or welcoming to many ordinary people. So what I really like is that you're offering a more dynamic approach that is truly more grassroots.
Thank you, Krista, for noticing the distinction I'm making about what true local organizing can look like. It's about moving around and outside the systems weaponized against us.
This is so awesome! I’ve been thinking about something like this a lot lately, since I keep hearing murmurs about a general strike.
I was in Nepal in 2004 when the Maoist rebels declared a general strike. They enforced it with brutal violence. Any business that stayed open was smashed and destroyed, and sometimes the owners and customers were attacked. Every major intersection was blocked with burning tires and piles of rubble. Anyone driving a car was attacked and their car was smashed or set on fire. I even saw a poor old rickshaw driver who got beaten half to death and his tires slashed for moving his rickshaw across the street. The strike lasted the entire month I was there, and I had to eat every meal with the family that ran my guesthouse.
So I feel like I know how not to do a general strike.
The other way, that I think everyone would prefer, is to build local mutual aid networks well ahead of time so that everyone can be provided for during the strike.
If people can’t feed their families without going to work then they’re not going to participate in the strike.
So your idea is a great way to build community resilience for when the time comes to revolt in serious.
I am going to share this with all of my friends and discuss building a mutual aid network in our community.
thank you for being so thoughtful about how not to do a general strike. I created this. Daisy chain to beat these people by creating a more beautiful pattern. I created the Daisy chain so that people could learn to take care of each other and hold that general strike. I’ll be creating more information, but I am looking for a team of people to help me put out information and develop it. But as it stands, your community is already an expert in your community. The organizing principle is to assume that everything collapses and work from the bottom up, giving to each other what the institutions will withhold from us in order to break us. What you saw in Nepal sounds very scary, and I do not want that to happen here. But this country deserves not to live in a mobster state with a pedophile president and corrupt leaders who physically threatened a free people. This will not stand. We rebuke it.
Thank you! To be fair to the Nepali Maoists, while I do not at all condone their methods, their goals were good: a raise in the minimum wage, an end to discrimination based on the caste system and an end to the monarchy, which had been robbing the country blind and oppressing the people for literally thousands of years.
I understand people wanting to be liberated. I also understand the circumstances, under which people in the United States live, and what a Civil War would look like in the United States. It would lead to mass bloodshed and destruction, and they would be no way to protect children and other vulnerable people from harm. Part of the reason I created this work is so that people could rise up safely. Because we live in the most armed country in the world, and white Christian nationalists and techno fascists are not operating under any democratic pretense. Eventually, people are going to realize that there is no way to mobilize the system, and they are going to have to learn to work around it and to do so peacefully to save as many people‘s lives as possible. I created the Daisy chain from that place of compassion and love for my neighbors. I believe in us. My comment did not mean to disrespect the people of Nepal. I simply know that this is a different context and people will die in mass numbers if anybody takes up arms. White Christian nationalists have already shown that to be true. These people mean to annihilate us. We have to work with what we have, and what we have is intelligence, compassion, ingenuity, and numbers. The people who were trying to wage a coup in our country. Do not have the numbers to pull this off. What matters is that people are able to organize in a way that everybody trusts. The Daisy chain is created to design trust and community buy-in. We will need a strike. It will need to be peaceful. And we will need to learn to move in formation. The Daisy chain is simply a map, and my hope is that people can make it spread. Right now, as far as I can see in a manipulated infrastructure, there are over 10,000 views on the Daisy chain. I can also confirm that I speak weekly with people across the country who are using this to peacefully organize their neighbors in their communities.
The place I’m in now is temporary, and I’ll be moving in the next couple of months…but I’m getting things started here before I go. It is dumbfounding to me how many people in this area are just not interested in what is going on, or how they think “yeah, it’s bad, but things are still ok”🙄 I had one person say,” Let me live in my bubble!” (Not kidding…she really did!) So I tried a different approach, and said that I was interested in starting a garden, and I know she’s good at that. I did get others involved with “taking a walk” with their dogs along the school route, in case certain agents showed up… there have been a few, but thank God none on the school route so far! The people I’m staying with decided that they don’t want any “political talk”, so I’m working around it as best I can. I know more people where I’m going, and it’ll be my own place, so I’m planning ahead there. At least they seem very receptive to the Daisy Chain. They have their eyes open!
I’m exhausted and only able to skim today, but it seems like you have described exactly what we have created here in Minneapolis. I hope to read again in more detail soon. Thank you for creating this. 💜
This is the way. This is 100% the way.
There is an entire tech universe doing this. Check out the fediverse. Go open source!
if you can answer - where is this being done and what are they accomplishing?
Everywhere. There are thousands, maybe millions, of geeks contributing to open source projects. And there are definitely several million people using open source software. The Internet runs on open source. Unfortunately, proponents don't effectively educate people outside of geekdom about open source or promote to business and civic leaders, most of whom have no idea it exists. Here in Chattanooga we are establishing a buyer/user co-op to make it easy and economical for anyone to access, own, and use open source solutions. I'm sure there are similar initiatives but I haven't found them.
This essay captures something many feel but rarely name — how small systems of control shape our behavior every day. The Hidden Forces, Reclaiming Humanity's Power from Systems of Control, looks at that same pattern on a broader scale: when systems drift from serving human dignity, humans end up serving the system instead. (https://thehiddenforces.substack.com/p/book)
Very good luck to all of you. The only way anyone is going to survive what is coming is through community. Think local, act intergalactic.
You say at the end "... people need a map to learn how to move together." This is so vitally true.
I've drawn up a very basic map for anyone organizing in these times, who wants to put human beings at the very epicentre of every loop in every case.
The situation is now beyond urgent. Please take a good look at this article. I can only assure you that if ANYTHING you are doing coincides with ANYTHING here, you can be certain you are working on the right lines, in sync with the great forces of history.
This system of systems is guaranteed good for the rest of human evolution on this planet. Not many designers can say that. If you are put off by Rudolf Steiner and other esoterica, then just note that the Threefold Platform is entirely the secular product of Fred Malherbe of Substack.
I call it "fighting fire with fire".
https://systemshaywire.substack.com/p/the-threefold-social-platform-truly
I feel dumb. I don't know how to find the houses in my city that are my last 4 zip code digits. Nothing I Google is showing me. Will continue to try....
just start with your street :)
We need a public school petal. just sayin'. It's ALL about the future of democracy rather than rule by the American Racist Taliban. And how do you include a "creatives" petal whilst leaving out environmental action in the daisy model? SMH. Coal, data centers, CAFOs - all problems round here that are DIRECTLY a result of oligarchy protected by authoritarianism.
Hi Kyle. You're right to be feel anger in this moment. I do want to point out, however, two things: (1) There are many linked videos attached to the executive summary of the Daisy Chain. Had you engaged with them, you'd have seen that the issues you raise are addressed. (2) You'd also have seen that the point of TDC is to take the loose map and apply it in your neighborhood. As I repeatedly state in my content here: the map is designed to be adapted, not to be perfect. It's easy to shame people who you assume haven't thought about everything. It takes actual courage to choose to apply new ideas in the hope we might collectively effect change. I am not here for armchair activism or undue criticism from impatient people who don't fully engage with my work but think they can leave a snarky capslock comments. That's not the way we get out of this. Please take breaks from the internet. I get angry, too. It's important to walk away, be in your neighborhood, and experience what is good.
This is beautiful. I know many profoundly disabled people whose only role in this can be "receive care" and who are already struggling with receiving sufficient help in the community. The bedbound, the housebound. Hard to imagine our communities supporting us because they generally don't know we exist. But overall I really appreciate your gift of this vision.
The idea is for people to learn who is in their neighborhood. That may include some canvassing on the part of neighbors. I wish I could do the world's largest zoom training, but my mic keeps getting cut on here.
I love the idea of organizing by zip code, and that you describe these different ways of supporting each other (i.e., health, safety, alternative economic supports like trade). It's definitely going against the prevalence of online organizing & communicating but I think an in-person approach is probably more important. This is showing a way it could be done.
When I think about local organizing, I often think about local town governments and school boards, which are often kind of conservative and controlled by people with allegiances to political parties and business interests. Basically, the old way of getting stuff done, which I don't think feels very inspiring or welcoming to many ordinary people. So what I really like is that you're offering a more dynamic approach that is truly more grassroots.
Thank you, Krista, for noticing the distinction I'm making about what true local organizing can look like. It's about moving around and outside the systems weaponized against us.
This is great! I’ve been working on The Humanitarians Unite! movement —you can check it out here.
https://humanitariansunite.info
Building, empowering and strengthening communities is the ONLY way.
This is so awesome! I’ve been thinking about something like this a lot lately, since I keep hearing murmurs about a general strike.
I was in Nepal in 2004 when the Maoist rebels declared a general strike. They enforced it with brutal violence. Any business that stayed open was smashed and destroyed, and sometimes the owners and customers were attacked. Every major intersection was blocked with burning tires and piles of rubble. Anyone driving a car was attacked and their car was smashed or set on fire. I even saw a poor old rickshaw driver who got beaten half to death and his tires slashed for moving his rickshaw across the street. The strike lasted the entire month I was there, and I had to eat every meal with the family that ran my guesthouse.
So I feel like I know how not to do a general strike.
The other way, that I think everyone would prefer, is to build local mutual aid networks well ahead of time so that everyone can be provided for during the strike.
If people can’t feed their families without going to work then they’re not going to participate in the strike.
So your idea is a great way to build community resilience for when the time comes to revolt in serious.
I am going to share this with all of my friends and discuss building a mutual aid network in our community.
Thank you
thank you for being so thoughtful about how not to do a general strike. I created this. Daisy chain to beat these people by creating a more beautiful pattern. I created the Daisy chain so that people could learn to take care of each other and hold that general strike. I’ll be creating more information, but I am looking for a team of people to help me put out information and develop it. But as it stands, your community is already an expert in your community. The organizing principle is to assume that everything collapses and work from the bottom up, giving to each other what the institutions will withhold from us in order to break us. What you saw in Nepal sounds very scary, and I do not want that to happen here. But this country deserves not to live in a mobster state with a pedophile president and corrupt leaders who physically threatened a free people. This will not stand. We rebuke it.
Thank you! To be fair to the Nepali Maoists, while I do not at all condone their methods, their goals were good: a raise in the minimum wage, an end to discrimination based on the caste system and an end to the monarchy, which had been robbing the country blind and oppressing the people for literally thousands of years.
I understand people wanting to be liberated. I also understand the circumstances, under which people in the United States live, and what a Civil War would look like in the United States. It would lead to mass bloodshed and destruction, and they would be no way to protect children and other vulnerable people from harm. Part of the reason I created this work is so that people could rise up safely. Because we live in the most armed country in the world, and white Christian nationalists and techno fascists are not operating under any democratic pretense. Eventually, people are going to realize that there is no way to mobilize the system, and they are going to have to learn to work around it and to do so peacefully to save as many people‘s lives as possible. I created the Daisy chain from that place of compassion and love for my neighbors. I believe in us. My comment did not mean to disrespect the people of Nepal. I simply know that this is a different context and people will die in mass numbers if anybody takes up arms. White Christian nationalists have already shown that to be true. These people mean to annihilate us. We have to work with what we have, and what we have is intelligence, compassion, ingenuity, and numbers. The people who were trying to wage a coup in our country. Do not have the numbers to pull this off. What matters is that people are able to organize in a way that everybody trusts. The Daisy chain is created to design trust and community buy-in. We will need a strike. It will need to be peaceful. And we will need to learn to move in formation. The Daisy chain is simply a map, and my hope is that people can make it spread. Right now, as far as I can see in a manipulated infrastructure, there are over 10,000 views on the Daisy chain. I can also confirm that I speak weekly with people across the country who are using this to peacefully organize their neighbors in their communities.
This is the kind of hope I needed today
Thank you for sharing impact! ♥️
The place I’m in now is temporary, and I’ll be moving in the next couple of months…but I’m getting things started here before I go. It is dumbfounding to me how many people in this area are just not interested in what is going on, or how they think “yeah, it’s bad, but things are still ok”🙄 I had one person say,” Let me live in my bubble!” (Not kidding…she really did!) So I tried a different approach, and said that I was interested in starting a garden, and I know she’s good at that. I did get others involved with “taking a walk” with their dogs along the school route, in case certain agents showed up… there have been a few, but thank God none on the school route so far! The people I’m staying with decided that they don’t want any “political talk”, so I’m working around it as best I can. I know more people where I’m going, and it’ll be my own place, so I’m planning ahead there. At least they seem very receptive to the Daisy Chain. They have their eyes open!
i’m so glad you’re headed into community ♥️
Wonderful piece. Thank you.
Thanks for this piece.
Thank you for reading. Share it every way you see fit! 🌼
I’m exhausted and only able to skim today, but it seems like you have described exactly what we have created here in Minneapolis. I hope to read again in more detail soon. Thank you for creating this. 💜
if you have any insights, I welcome you to message me. open to updating.