Comments on New Currency Frontiers: The Central Covenants of Successful Economies

"Do you know what cells that stop sharing the...

2011-04-10T08:08:22.753-07:00

"Do you know what cells that stop sharing their resources with the rest of the body are called? Cancer"

Does that mean that those of us who chose not to share our wealth with the "common" will be dealt with on a governmental level? We are being equated to a cancer. To make a body healthy again a cancer has to be dealt with.

Didn't we learn from an earlier marxist system that marxism only works if you force people. Otherwise people will seek incentive. The return to the hunter gatherer system implied in this article will only work by erradicating a large part of the worlds population, or putting people under a tyrannical system of compulsion.

Reminds me of what Paul Krafel in Seeing Nature ca...

2011-04-05T09:58:33.597-07:00

Reminds me of what Paul Krafel in Seeing Nature calls 'the fit'. By observing nature you see how all things fit with others in harmonious balance.

What is our harmonious fit when we lack to acknowledge that nature is not here for us. Its here for ALL sentinent beings.

Beatuiflly written Arthur. I will be sharing this ...

2011-04-03T13:22:44.342-07:00

Beatuiflly written Arthur. I will be sharing this with lots of people to help them begin to understand "the economy" better.

What I also love about that same quote is the way ...

2011-04-03T13:04:51.685-07:00

What I also love about that same quote is the way it shows how the broken relationship is rooted in the expressive capacity of representational language -- subject/object grammars.

This is why the work we're doing on new expressive capacities for a flow language are so important!

Here's an excellent related article that gives...

2011-04-03T12:50:32.662-07:00

Here's an excellent related article that gives some more depth in thinking about the deep difference between a commons based reality and the current paradigm:

http://p2pfoundation.net/State,_the_Market,_and_some_Preliminary_Question_about_the_Commons

My favorite quote from it:

"The shift that we need now to accomplish politically, not only theoretically, is to change the dominant wisdom from the absolute domination of the subject (as owner or State) over the object (territory or more generally the environment) to a focus on the relationship of the two (subject-nature). We need a new common sense recognizing, outside of the Western liberal hubris, that each individual's survival depends on its relationship with others, with the community, with the environment."

I like these posts, and the great examples of posi...

2011-04-03T10:22:31.636-07:00

I like these posts, and the great examples of positive economies, but I wish you would give a tangible example of what our economy is doing wrong and break that apart. Talk about why as part of the analysis. Perhaps you are preaching to the choir on this blog, but what about abstraction and speculation is bad? What about greed? Is it possible money is being redistributed, just not in the way you'd like? I'd like to see our economy analysed using the rules of the commons in a detailed manner, not just the biological economies, in order to wrap my head around the issues more.