TOWARD A COMMUNITY-TYPE SOCIETY

It is possible to develop, together and with contribution, a societal operating system consisting of working group developed standards and habitat team operations. We are developing a society where human fulfillment is evidenced, and we are all doing it together. Those who contribute are appreciated and recognized as sustaining a society where all are fulfilled, from those in the education phase to those in the leisure phase, by the sense of a duty to give back to society by those in the contribution phase. Over time, fewer number of working cycles are required to sustain society at a level of optimal human fulfillment given what is known and available. The standards become the information platform, and the habitat network becomes the material basis-platform, for global human flourishing. Problem definition needs to take into account human users, working groups, and habitat operational teams, and problem definition must be a prerequisite to proposal-making. Proposals are habitat service local-/network-user configurations. These configurations include local preferences for configuration. Decisioning occurs over a spectrum from values, to objectives, to decisions that relate one-to-one another, and therein, decisions to re-configure materiality (in the form of habitats toward human fulfillment).

When we return to a simple two strand thread we may see how information and materiality may be integrated into a set of standards that produces and operates a network of integrated habitat city systems. The working groups and habitat team members are themselves seen as the users of the society that optimizes their flourishing.

Proposals for habitats include agreements, knowledge (from science), human preference surveys, and resource surveys. Teams in community take decisions together, because they see each other as co-contributors, and not as competitors. In community, work is split into teams that take decisions at different levels of frequency. When an incident occurs in a habitat, decisions and protocols are engaged more rapidly and command-like, than the development of the next aesthetic re-configuration of someone’s given habitat. Preferences are taken into account in the latter case, and commands, which come from commonly optimal protocols, given standards, are shared (because, all share a common critical- and systems-thinking standard). When there is an emergency, protocols are engaged, which represent standards that are expected to resolve the emergency with the least harm and time. These working groups and teams that sustain society use statistical services to calculate production, contribution, and life-cycle servicing of global human need. The mathematics to do this without price have been available to do this for decades. Yes, one can imagine the reasons why this hasn’t been done at wide scale, or previously wasn’t feasible due to socio-technical conditions.

The disconnect between law-making and trading, and human fulfillment is replaced by an integrated system that structures society in a way that is standardized to be known to create human fulfillment and adapts to conditions because the users are also the contributors.

If a community configuration of society is possible, consider it to be within your reach.