How does technology intended for peace not also get appropriated for not-so-peaceful purposes?
I am currently working through Michel Bauwens’ paper on P2P and Human Evolution. He makes the case the P2P as a social form – leads to a new consciousness – and in its wake revises out ideas about economy, organization, values – engaging in creation of common pursuit, without hierarchy, freely sharing the product for the benefit of all. A leap from the old hunter-gather model relying on natural abundance, a leap over agrarian model that led to private land ownership, over the industrial model with the idea of money as capital and confinement of distribution and sharing through the creation of exchange economy. It would be a matter of discussion and further development to see if P2P is robust enough to stay focused on creating common good. Then again, I am also thinking about Jean-Paul Lederach’s play, The Meeting Place. JPL describes Peace, Justice, Truth and Mercy in a dynamic tangled dance. So perhaps the path to peace sometimes requires a move away from it to jostle people to awaken
I am currently working through Michel Bauwens’ paper on P2P and Human Evolution. He makes the case the P2P as a social form – leads to a new consciousness – and in its wake revises out ideas about economy, organization, values – engaging in creation of common pursuit, without hierarchy, freely sharing the product for the benefit of all. A leap from the old hunter-gather model relying on natural abundance, a leap over agrarian model that led to private land ownership, over the industrial model with the idea of money as capital and confinement of distribution and sharing through the creation of exchange economy. It would be a matter of discussion and further development to see if P2P is robust enough to stay focused on creating common good. Then again, I am also thinking about Jean-Paul Lederach’s play, The Meeting Place. JPL describes Peace, Justice, Truth and Mercy in a dynamic tangled dance. So perhaps the path to peace sometimes requires a move away from it to jostle people to awaken
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