Macks Wolfard

Commentary: A controversial bill that would enable denser housing near California transit hubs wrongly substitutes far-away authority for local expertise. cal.news/4m2Rr4u 📝 @newton_jim

one of the most toxic forces in American politics is the assumption that if you don’t like or trust government, the sole alternative is the antisocial and antidemocratic regimes of shareholder capitalism. @Sara_Horowitz describes an autonomous, participatory, mutualistic third sector. a well of strategies for provisioning life outside of the toxic centralization of public and private systems. the scaling of this third sector is imminent: we know that p2p open value networks like @ethereum and @Holochain have the infrastructure to host it. we know @gitcoin OpenCivics and @allo_capital are developing the tools to fund and manage it. guilds @guildguild_eth , DAOs and other networked cooperative models might be the  fundamental economic units of its producers. @open_protocols will make the fruits of that labor abundant. the viability of this third sector for providing for basic needs is an underground truism, self evident. it’s where you go when the other systems exclude you; it is capable of flowing resources outside of the restricted logic channels of business and bureaucracy. we will scale it, because technology is rational, and the enclosure of the old regimes are irrational. what an authority tells us is permissable will always fall away to what empirical practice tells us is possible: the viable provisioning of life in itself through decentralized and horizontalist means. life in itself - that strange attractor, hidden variable of rational behavior, cracking open enclosures, begging for new recipes, new configurations, new experiments. life in itself is not neutral or mute; it is combustible, empirically explosive. life in itself is different from the dreary, discrete, quantified life of commercial or bureaucratic setttings, bread lines or mcdonalds, regimes of exaction where every activity is indexed a means to an end. life in itself is anexact. it is qualia: vague, processual, disowned. it doesn’t always or even primarily inhabit individuals - the nondual, intersubjective in-between of meditation, conversation, dance, the atmosphere of a mountain valley ecology, the aura of a rave. process philosophy tells us that these, too, are rational objects, technical objects, anexact but practical, immeasurable yet empirical. the metastable relational electricity that gave way to the first organism. not just real but fundamental. the challenge of scaling the third sector is a matter of disavowing the institutional goggles that tell us that life in itself is a frivolous, immature, secondary matter. or that it should be restricted to the realms of religion and art. there is a viable economic design space of processual, nondualistic assets. it is as ungraspable to the institutions as it is self-evident to the undergrounds. (my friends and I in Portland call it undercapital). undercapital design requires a recalibration of senses, a viewing of the world upside down. it requires that we pick up the rock and see the squirming fecundity of the soil that supports it. it requires that we cease to take seriously the pettiness of the institutions and trustfall onto the stigmergy, the extitutional network power that we know owns the future. once we crack the code on undercapital as a design framework, the scalability of the third sector, its true importance as an alternative to the dualistic regimes, will become self-evident. if you’re interested in the theory of undercapital, its application in designing real nondualist, process assets, and its relevance to the decentralized web, come check out the undercapital forum. (link in comment)

Moving beyond the inherent conflict between good governance and good business for public goods. @paul2.eth/the-2-token-model-for-public-goods" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">paragraph.com/@paul2.eth/the…