The term "SPESYSTEM" is shorthand for "social/political/economic system". A nation is a place, that has one or more spesystems operating within its borders. A spesystem is a system; it can span and even ignore national boundaries. National governments do their best to establish spesystem monopolies internally, but do not always or completely succeed: individuals can and do sometimes operate simultaneously in their nation's "official" spesystem, and in alternative spesystems (criminal, tribal, corporate, military, ...).
There are three ways to start a new spesystem:
One problem with path #1 (modify) is that it pits reformers against the Powers-That-Be at the very beginning. The most likely outcome of such a contest is that the reformers wind up squashed like grapes -- Bambi meets Godzilla.
One problem with path #2 (overthrow and replace) is that it is not possible to bring peace with machine-guns. We (humanity) have been there and done that, and we know where it leads: the victorious reformers become the new Powers-That-Be, and we eventually wind up where we started.
The first step along path #3 is to create the seed. The second step will be to find/create a safe place (womb, greenhouse) to plant it.
The new spesystem as it grows should co-exist with existing national spesystems (without being interdependent), should be (within itself) unaffected by national boundaries, and should grow through attracting individuals to operate more and more in its economy (and correspondingly less and less in national economies).
Path #3 is both the most efficient and the most responsible way to start a new spesystem: it does not waste resources fighting Powers-That-Be on their own turf, and it does not summarily foist untested changes on the general public.
The aim of the Freetimea Project is to invent and then grow a new spesystem. The name of the new spesystem is FREETIMEA.
The term "HUNAFU" is shorthand for "Humanity, Nature, and Future Generations". FREETIMEA is a means to an end; the end is to serve the best interests of HUNAFU.At the most general level, the primary interests of HUNAFU are:
The intent is to design FREETIMEA to serve these values.
The Freetimea Project must go through these phases:
Conceptually, the phases can be described as:
During PHASE1, donors support individuals working on the project.
In PHASE2, donors fund the single-issue political campaign to have one nation ratify the FREETIMEA TREATY.
During PHASE3, donors pump money into the Freetimea Bank (FREEBANK).
PHASE4 begins at the point that FREEBANK no longer needs money from donors to supplant tax/export revenue.
A person whose basic BODYNEEDS (sustenance, shelter, safety, security) are not being satisfied must devote personal resources to securing what is needed, and is not free to deviate from that devotion.
The Freetimea economy will not be large and robust enough to begin freely providing for all basic human bodyneeds until PHASE5. (That is one of the defining characteristics of PHASE5.) Until then, Freetimea will be a must-work system for all but the independently wealthy, just as are all other currently existing spesystems.
The mechanisms through which Freetimea will eventually cease to be a must-work system must be an intrinsic part of the initial design, and must be designed to automatically activate as resources for the use become available. (This is an example of a DESIGN SPECIFICATION for Freetimea.)
"POOP" is an acronym, derived from "Power Over Other People".
The more POOP a given individual has, the less freedom those others have who are on the receiving end of the "power over" relation.
Therefore (to increase freedom), another specification for the Freetimea spesystem is that it be designed to eliminate POOP.
In the material that follows, this specification will be taken very seriously indeed, and will give rise to various proposals which are definitely "out of the box" (some will say "off the wall").
The USA Constitution was written by a couple of dozen white males (delegates) over a period of several months, and then submitted to collections of delegates in the states for ratification through supermajority-wins voting.
We wish the Freetimea Library (FLIB) to be filled with material which can be proposed by anyone, and which then passes through an acceptance process which is as free from politics, conflicts of interest, hidden agendas, and other unprincipled influences as our collective ingenuity can arrange.
Two further specifications for the acceptance process are (a) that it be efficient with respect to both expense and time, and (b) that the process be simple enough to enable an ordinary mortal acting alone to submit an acceptable proposal.
The next few sections sketch the parts and procedures of a system which can meet these specifications.
A "SWIZARD" is a "software wizard". The first item that FLIB will need to have in it will be the PROPOSING SWIZARD.
The proposing swizard is the computer program that diagnoses (through interaction) what kind of a thing is being proposed, and then guides the proposer through the process of proposing, while providing all necessary information, recipes for off-line work, etc., at each step along the way.
BLINAP is shorthand for "Blind Independent Appraisal".
A "SECUTIVE" is a "software executive". The software kernal for blinap (which we will call the BLINAP SECUTIVE) is the second item that flib will need to contain.
Once a proposal has been collected, the proposing swizard passes it to the blinap secutive.
The blinap secutive then selects three human appraisers (from its list of available appraisers) who have no connections with each other or with the proposer, and who have no conflicts of interest with respect to the proposal itself. (The system is "blind" in the sense that -- whenever possible -- none of the four know who the others are while the proceedings are in progress. Proceedings and outcomes are public; identities are private.) (Qualifying to serve as a blinap appraiser is the primary requirement for becoming a citizen of Freetimea.)
The APPRAISING SWIZARD (the third item that FLIB must contain) then guides each of the three appraisers (independently) through the appraisal process.
Upon completion, the appraising swizard passes the appraisals back to the blinap secutive, which then compares them.
If the appraisals agree and the proposal has been found acceptable, the secutive then invokes the sets/threads of PROJECTS that will implement it.
If the appraisals do not agree, an investigation is triggered to discover the specific areas of disagreement, and to understand, parse, and articulate the issues involved. The accumulating body of investigation reports guides the efforts of all interested parties to find resolutions and incorporate them into the blinap process.
In the course of blinap cycles, there will frequently be need for special expertise/equipment to provide inputs and ingredients to both proposer and appraisers, and to act on the results of the appraisal.
The blinap secutive passes each of these (as a project request) to the appropriate PROJECT SECUTIVE.
The project secutive then selects from its list of available experts (individuals, teams, whatever), and forwards the project specifications, recipes, and other materials.
When the project has been completed, the project secutive receives back the work-products that can be sent back, together with whatever information/materials are necessary to appraise all of the project's work-products.
The project secutive then passes the appraisal materials back to the blinap secutive as part of an appraisal request, and passes project requests to other project secutives as appropriate.
Deep Blue is a computer program that can play chess at the grandmaster level. This is not a credit to the computer; this is a credit to the people that designed and wrote the program (and to the people that invented and built the computer).
Computers are just tools: people write the instructions, and then computers follow those instructions exactly -- perfect servants.
Through writing computer programs such as the proposing swizard, the blinap secutive, the appraising swizard, we create a "hands-off" government: people write the programs, and then the programs make the moves. (This is an instance of SPLITTING).
One big advantage to this approach: programs get progressively better with each successive version -- the chess-playing programs of today are more capable by any measure than their predecessors. The evidence of the last 7,000 years makes it difficult to say the same of successive versions of rulers, politicians, and bureaucrats.
Just as (in mathematics) the addition of negative integers and then real numbers and then imaginary numbers in each instance creates entirely new realms to be explored and utilized, so also (in politics and economics) the advent of computers+communications has created entirely new possibilities for social organization. If we spend our time and other resources tweaking and twiddling old forms (capitalism, communism, corporations, adding bells & whistles to existing governments) we will never get around to exploring the new possibilities, nor will we discover how to utilize those possibilities to best effect.
To make rapid progress, we must give up on trying to turn sows' ears into silk purses.
BLINAP, SWIZARDS, SECUTIVES, PROJECTS form the core of a system which, fully elaborated, can "govern" better than any existing government (more responsively, more efficiently, with less corruption), and which contains no institutionalized "power over" relations. (PHASE1 will not be complete until the foregoing statement is true.)
The contending political forms are these:
The passages in this discourse are not proposals; they are raw, bare sketches of possible future proposals.
The only people who will profit from reading further (IMHO) are those who are already actively working on the project of creating the next civilization of humanity, or who are ready to begin.
All other readers are strongly urged to STOP READING NOW!, and to avoid reading anything further related to the Freetimea Project until PHASE2, at which time there will be materials well worth reading and considering.
The material of this site is intended to serve as fertilizer; the appropriate measure of fertilizer is not how it smells, but whether it contributes to the growth of good stuff.