• Slay The Jabberwock

      The Jabberwock, of course, is the modern capitalist / patriarchal / empire memetic-virus that is infecting the global ethnosphere and threatening to exterminate life on Earth.

       

      Why must you slay the Jabberwock?

       

      The same reason you must extinguish your adolescence with authentic adulthood initiatory processes...

       

      Because it will not give way.

       

      This website is a mini-handbook empowering global 3Cells and Possibility Teams to build interconnected, resilient, leaderless, nonlinear, gameworlds that make the Jabberwock irrelevant.

    • 0. An Overview

      NOTE: Most of what follows I extracted from an astonishing series of blogs and comments (with permission) from John Robb at http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com. John is the author of Brave New War.

      Extinction Rebellion, Fridays For Future, School Strike For Climate, Youth Climate Movement, Deep Green Resistance, Stop Ecocide, Decisive Ecological Warfare, and so on, are not a legal conflict. They are political insurgency.

       

      For simplicity, let's pack them all together into one name: '(r)evolution'.

       

      The bad news is:

      As ruling systems try to suppress the insurgencies they engage in low-intensity warfare. In other words, we are already at war.

       

      The good news is:

      The states don’t know how to win this war.

       

      “No state has ever defeated an indigenous insurgency.” - Jerry Boyle

       

      The 'Jabberwock' is led by psychopathic personalities using 'single-mind' intelligence passing orders down through their hierarchies.

       

      In comparison, the (r)evolution is open-source (leaderless), and uses many-mind (swarm) intelligence, which is nonlinear and which tends to generate an abundance of parallel (unpredictable/uncontrollable) actions.

       

      Therefore, if the (r)evolution persists, the Jabberwock has no chance!

       

      Persistence is enhanced through intelligent understanding of (r)evolution strategies and technologies, thus, this website, in which you will find the following sections:

      1. GENERAL STRATEGIES
      2. WHAT IS IT REALLY ABOUT?
      3. SPECIFIC STRATEGIES
      4. HOW TO DISARM A POLICE OFFICER
      5. AND HAST THOU SLAIN THE JABBERWOCK?
      6. HOW TO MANUFACTURE A TRIBE
      7. RECOMMENDED FURTHER READING

    • 1. General (R)evolution Strategies

      SUPEREMPOWERMENT

      (R)evolution increases the ability of individuals and small groups to accomplish tasks through rapid improvements in decentralized decision making, teamwork, nonlinear strategy, and the use of technology to access global networks.

       

      Many-to-many collaborations enable small groups to radically increase their productivity in protests.

       

      For example, if many small groups disrupt a system by attacking its weak points simultaneously in diverse modalities (such as walkouts, flashmobs, media campaigns, street theater pieces) this can multiply the effectiveness to achieve as much as a 1,400,000 percent return on investment. That is superempowerment.

       

       

      OPEN-SOURCE WARFARE

      (R)evolution gains diverse intelligences by remaining leaderless so it can be sourced by the whole swarm rather than by individual leaders.

       

      Through self-organizing its nonviolent noncompliance with what-is-not-sustainable, (r)evolution acts in parallel through a large collection of small, superempowered groups.

       

      These small groups can work together to take on much larger foes (usually hierarchies).

       

      Open-source organizing enables high rates of wildly diverse innovation, increased survivability among the participant groups, more frequent protests, and an ability to swarm targets.

       

       

      HOW CAN (R)EVOLUTION SOURCE A LONG-TERM SUPEREMPOWERED OPEN-SOURCE INSURGENCY?

       

      A) THE PLAUSIBLE PROMISE
      Establish an idea that holds the open-source insurgency together. The plausible promise is composed of:

      1. AN ENEMY The enemy serves as the target of protests. This enemy can either be perceived or manufactured (any group or organization that can be depicted as a threat, in this case: the Jabberwock.). The enemy can be any group that currently holds and exerts power: invader, the government, a company, an ethnic group, or a private organization. It’s all the Jabberwock.
      2. A GOAL This goal animates the Teams. Because of the diversity of the groups and individuals that join together in an open-source insurgency, the only goal that works is one that is simple and extremely high level. More complex goal-setting is impossible, since it will fracture or fork the insurgency.
      3. A DEMONSTRATION A successful demonstration proves the viability of the insurgency. People see it is actually possible to win against the enemy. The demonstration deflates any aura of invincibility that the enemy may currently enjoy. The demonstration serves as a rallying cry for the insurgency.

       

      B) THE FOCO
      Every open-source insurgency is ignited by a small founding group, a 'foco' in guerrilla parlance.

       

      The foco sets the original goal and conducts the operation that provides the insurgency with its demonstration of viability.

       

      It's important to understand that in order to grow an open-source insurgency, the foco must follow a simple path:

      1. RELINQUISH Give up any control over the insurgency gained during its early phases. In practice, this means giving up control of how the goal is achieved, who may participate, how to communicate, etc. The only control that remains is the power of example, achieved through the respect gained through effectively serving the goal. If ever a leader attempts to fork the protest, by trying to lead it towards an agenda or policy or politics only they care about, they should be ignored/rejected/blocked.
      2. RESIST (RESIST YOUR GREMLIN'S HIDDEN INTENTIONS) This means: stay small. Don't grow the foco to a size that makes the original group easy for the enemy to target (allow very few new members in the first group). Further, don't establish a formal collection of groups, a hierarchy of control, or set forth a complex agenda. This will only serve to alienate and fragment the insurgency. In some cases, it will make the foco a target of the insurgency itself. It will also slow any advancement on the objective since it limits potential pathways of innovation that naturally emerge from a large, loose network of self-organized superempowered groups.
      3. SHARE Rapidly give away your best resources, ideas, information, knowledge, recruits, etc. to other groups that join the insurgency. Share everything possible that doesn't directly compromise the foco's integrity (its operational security or viability). Expect sharing in return.

    • 2. What Is (R)evolution Actually About?

      (R)evolution is comparable to what we have seen in Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Syria, etc. Remember, these are actions that have already toppled governments.

       

      The big difference between (r)evolution and those other protests is that (r)evolution is not directed at governments. It is aimed at companies, but not just any companies. It's aimed at the banks that own and run the global economy.

       

      (R)evolution is replacing the heart of the global Capitalist system with a new human agenda on the planet.

       

      (R)evolution ignores governments and standard political processes because:

      • Governments are much weaker than the global economy (they are bankrupt hollow shells of what they were at the end of the Cold War).
      • Governments are too ineffectual and/or corrupt to change anything even if they are coerced (see the US, Ireland and Greece for recent examples).
      • Too little will change even if the government changes parties (see the US for how lame politics and politicians have become).

      What's the real goal of (r)evolution? It's a recognition that the center of world power doesn't reside in Washington or London or Moscow or Beijing anymore. It's in the executive suites and luxury resorts behind the global corporate hegemony.

       

      (R)evolution dispenses with the middle men (governments) and goes straight after the real power to divest it of whatever credibility it still tries to claim.

       

      The reason we are seeing this movement right now is because Capitalism, the last great ideological system, is in crisis.

       

      This isn't merely a crisis of outcomes (economic depression, financial panic, etc.). It's a crisis of BELIEF.

       

      While people generally believe in the idea of 'capitalism', a critical mass of people now think that the global capitalist system we currently have is so badly run, so corrupt, so terrible at delivering results that it needs either:

       

      A) A complete overhaul, or

      B) To be replaced with something new

       

      Which equates to the same thing! Because the Jabberwock cannot be overhauled.

       

      The Jabberwock cannot become anything other than a Jabberwock.

    • 3. Specific (R)evolution Strategies

      There is no difference between a person and their absolute responsibility for the consequences of their actions.

       

      The concept that a person’s responsibility is subsumed by the corporation they work for (corporate personhood) or the government they serve (national laws, or the customs of the bureaucracy) or the general they take orders from ('just following orders') is a false paradigm. We live in a responsible universe. You are responsible for what you do or say, or don't do or don't say.

       

      Believing in any false paradigm is still your absolute responsibility.

       

      Believing in this particular false paradigm (the capitalist patriarchal empire - actually 3 false paradigms...) leads to global suicide.

       

      It can help to consciously remember that:

      1. The Rule of Law of Western Civilization is exterminating life on Earth at the fastest possible rate.
      2. Anyone following the Rule of Law of Western Civilization is criminally insane.
      3. Anyone defending the Rule of Law of Western Civilization has already forfeited their life.

       

      How do you know you are thinking in this particular false paradigm? How can you detect if you are infested with the memetic viruses of the Jabberwock?

       

      Here are some symptoms:

      1. Assuming you must ignore social and environmental consequences in your decisions because they seem too expensive to consider.
      2. Strategizing ways to externalize costs so that the general public, future generations, or third-world countries pay to deal with your toxic wastes.
      3. Thinking you can manufacture a product without including its recycle costs in your manufacturing and pricing.
      4. Thinking you can cut old growth forests in Borneo, make products with it in China, sell your products through Ikea or Walmart, and call this rape 'profit'.
      5. Thinking that you can follow orders from a superior and kill people with robot planes in Afghanistan.
      6. Thinking you can manufacture, sell, transport, or use depleted uranium weapons.
      7. Thinking that it does not matter if you consume false-paradigm products. (If most people stopped using Shell Oil or McDonald’s hamburgers for two weeks these firms would be bankrupt.)
      8. Thinking you can be pissed off at your neighbor without changing yourself.
      9. Thinking you can order someone else to stop a third party from creating a better world and not face the personal consequences. (For example, thinking you can hire assassins to kill ecological activists in Brazil so you can increase your cattle herd.)

      Here is an expample. In New York City, Mayor Michael Bloomberg thought he could have the owners of Zuccotti Park – Brookfield Properties – shut down #OccupyWallStreet early in the morning of 14 October 2011 using the ruse of 'cleaning the park'. He thought he could avoid the consequences of this decision. He was thinking inside the false paradigm.

       

      #OCCUPY perceived the cleaning order as Bloomberg vs. #OCCUPY. One Mind vs. Many Minds. Linear Thinking vs. Nonlinear Thinking. From the very beginning Bloomberg had no chance. (This is true for whatever authority figure tries to subdue or suppress the people united.)

       

      #OCCUPY took immediate actions to delegitimize the complaint that the park was dirty and unsafe. It brings in power-washers, brooms, and mops and as one body deep cleans Liberty Square. They even hired a dump truck! They even offered to let cleaners into the square to clean 1/3 of it at a time!

       

      With the complaint delegitimized, #OCCUPY goes on the offensive. It personalizes the eviction move. It finds Bloomberg. He's at a gala dinner at Ciprianis (a Wall Street restaurant). They surround the restaurant and try to enter it to deliver a petition with 310,000 signatures. Bloomberg hides, departs from the rear. In short order the deputy mayor announces that the eviction is cancelled!

       

      Remember, every situation is unique, but general group-intelligence strategies apply.

       

      Here are some guidelines:

      • Go straight for the man.
      • Maximize the taint of an authority’s actions on his personal brand.
      • Blame him personally.
      • Pierce his shield of bureaucratic impersonality. For example, #OCCUPY branded the park eviction with the name: BLOOMBERG. This is a global stage. Let’s use it. The reputation of the president /mayor /CEO /general /police chief may not matter much to you, but it certainly matters to him.
      • Confuse him.
      • Respond to his attack with lots and lots of flashmobs.
      • Go for non-violent system disruption.
      • Shut down bridges and major streets.
      • Overwhelm the system with actions of unprecedented speed and unpredictable volume.
      • As soon as the police arrive in force, disperse and reassemble at new locations.
      • Bikes plus Kids.
      • Disrupt, disrupt, disrupt.
      • More flashmobs equals more disruption.
      • As long as you are under attack in one place, keep the city tied up in knots at other places. NOTE: If they lock down your area, flashmobs are the best way to participate. (Plus, as an added benefit, in running from location to location you get some needed exercise!)
      • Connect with more people than him. Best way to do this: Eyes in the sky. Get cameras above your action with drones, for example. Stream the feed. The better the quality the more impact it will have. It will play across the world. Think about how important AJs video feed over Tahrir was when things got hot. Better yet, get AJ to cover it and stream it.

      Success story. The flashmob tactic was tried in Panama a couple of years ago by the SUNTRACS construction workers union. With very small groups pre-planted all over the city they drove the police absolutely crazy. Police would show up at location A, the mob would disperse immediately, two text messages and then flashmobs would simultaneously block streets at locations B and C. This worked very well and with much fewer people than #OCCUPY has available.

       

      Encourage multiple #OCCUPY flashmob teams to self-organize and operate in parallel!

      Continue to exist.

      Logistics are important.

      Think ahead.

      Cold weather is coming fast, freezing your food, water, everything in a few weeks.

       

      People in the (r)evolution will get tougher, but it eventually gets impossible with snow blowing.

      Continue to exist, but consider abandoning the parks. Why not do the 'very-small-groups-pre-planted-all-over-the-city-for-flashmobs' tactic from warm apartments? Print an apartment hospitality directory, or put it online, like the Mennonite Your Way Directory http://www.mennoniteyourway.com

      It’s time for tribal living.

       

      Become 'Lady Randomfactor'. Many random events that are out of control will wear down and use up the Jabberwock’s resources.

       

      Then become 'Lord Critical Mass'. Except, instead of every Friday, pick one random, unpredictable day (or a couple days) each week to (r)evolutionize with a critical mass of people (meaning, enough people to attract attention and cause an impact).

       

      Five hundred police come out on Monday expecting the crowd from Sunday to still be there, but people have mysteriously vanished and downtown looks like a Police State. By Wednesday there are only fifty police left, and then suddenly thousands of (r)evolutionizers show up there, warm, fed, showered, shaved, and feeling quite chipper, even in the middle of winter.

    • 4. A Taxonomy Of Action by Derrick Jensen

      Deep Green Resistance News Service, the 12/04/2019 edition:

       

      A Taxonomy of Action

      Excerpted from the book, Deep Green Resistance: Strategy to Save the Planet.

       

      We’ve all seen biological taxonomies, which categorize living organisms by kingdom and phylum down to genus and species. Though there are tens of millions of living species of vastly different shapes, sizes, and habitats, we can use a taxonomy to quickly zero in on a tiny group.

       

      When we seek effective strategies and tactics, we have to sort through millions of past and potential actions, most of which are either historical failures or dead ends. We can save ourselves a lot of time and a lot of anguish with a quick and dirty resistance taxonomy. By looking over whole branches of action at once we can quickly judge which tactics are actually appropriate and effective for saving the planet (and for many specific kinds of social and ecological justice activism). A taxonomy of action can also suggest tactics we might otherwise overlook.

       

      Broadly speaking, we can divide all of our tactics and projects either into acts of omission or acts of commission. Of course, sometimes these categories overlap. A protest can be a means to lobby a government, a way of raising public awareness, a targeted tactic of economic disruption, or all three, depending on the intent and organization. And sometimes one tactic can support another; an act of omission like a labor strike is much more likely to be effective when combined with propagandizing and protest.

       

      In a moment we’ll do a quick tour of our taxonomic options for resistance. But first, a warning. Learning the lessons of history will offer us many gifts, but these gifts aren’t free. They come with a burden. Yes, the stories of those who fight back are full of courage, brilliance, and drama. And yes, we can find insight and inspiration in both their triumphs and their tragedies. But the burden of history is this: there is no easy way out.

       

      In Star Trek, every problem can be solved in the final scene by reversing the polarity of the deflector array. But that isn’t reality, and that isn’t our future. Every resistance victory has been won by blood and tears, with anguish and sacrifice. Our burden is the knowledge that there are only so many ways to resist, that these ways have already been invented, and they all involve profound and dangerous struggle. When resisters win, it is because they fight harder than they thought possible.

       

      And this is the second part of our burden. Once we learn the stories of those who fight back—once we really learn them, once we cry over them, once we inscribe them in our hearts, once we carry them in our bodies like a war veteran carries aching shrapnel—we have no choice but to fight back ourselves. Only by doing that can we hope to live up to their example. People have fought back under the most adverse and awful conditions imaginable; those people are our kin in the struggle for justice and for a livable future. And we find those people—our courageous kin—not just in history, but now. We find them among not just humans, but all those who fight back.

       

      We must fight back because if we don’t we will die. This is certainly true in the physical sense, but it is also true on another level. Once you really know the self-sacrifice and tirelessness and bravery that our kin have shown in the darkest times, you must either act or die as a person. We must fight back not only to win, but to show that we are both alive and worthy of that life.
       

      Acts of Omission

       

      The word 'strike' comes from eighteenth-century English sailors, who struck (removed) their ship’s sails and refused to go to sea, but the concept of a workers’ strike dates back to ancient Egypt...(Read the whole article in this PDF)

       

    • 5. How To Disarm A Police Officer

      These are notes from a video made 11 October 2011 (posted below), featuring Chicago lawyer Jerry Boyle of National Lawyers Guild giving a street workshop to #OCCUPYCHICAGO. It contains valuable legal and strategic information for protesters everywhere. It's an hour long, but completely engaging and well worth watching. It is included below, and also posted at http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/17807926 by Linda Ross.

       

      Police are trained to think within five legal definitions of force:

      1. Physical presence – a show of force is equal to the use of force.
      2. Verbal direction – instructions and commands.
      3. Empty hand control – no weapons. Physical contact.
      4. Intermediate weapons systems – pepper spray, baton.
      5. Lethal force.

      In an interaction with police, you have the power to determine to what degree of force the situation escalates.

       

      This is a tremendous amount of power.

       

      For example, if an officer speaks to you and you ignore him, you force him to escalate the force he is using with you. He must speak louder or get angry to get your attention.

       

      Therefore, in non-violent (r)evolutionary actions, you can de-escalate force by looking police officers directly in the eyes.

       

      Most police officers already sympathize with (r)evolutionary goals. You can demonstrate compliance with their physical presence and verbal direction by acknowledging them, listening to what they say, and repeating back what you understood (using a 'Completion Loop').

       

      You do not necessarily have to DO what they say, but if you stay in relationship with them, acknowledging them, listening and speaking with them (perhaps even being kind to them) then there is a good chance the force can be kept at the verbal level.

       

      You can also determine whether or not you will be arrested. If you do not wish to be arrested then create it so interactions stay within the first two levels of force. By the time an officer goes to the third level of force - empty hand control - and grabs you by the arm, you are already being arrested.

       

      Police may be tired, angry, scared, or overwhelmed. They may regard dealing with street protests as a distraction from their true work of dealing with criminals.

       

      Being frustrated, they may (unconsciously) wish to escalate the level of force in an interaction so that if they do go to the trouble of arresting you, you will be charged with a higher crime.

       

      For example, police are trained in 'pain points'. If an angry police officer grabs you he may intentionally apply pressure at a pain point causing you to automatically flail about, which on a video would be hard to distinguish from resisting arrest or attacking the officer, which is an automatic felony charge for you. Your flailing is also a good excuse for him to use pepper spray, a knee, or his club on you.

       

      Some people recommend that if you are grabbed you should go limp, but if you do, you will likely be trampled or dragged around and might get hurt.

       

      If you already know a police officer might grab you in a pain point you can prepare yourself to not react aggressively no matter what.

       

      Often, these days, to avoid escalation of force, white shirt police do the actual arresting, with blue-shirt police as their backups.

       

      To disarm a police officer, use the first three levels of force on him before he uses them on you.

       

      For example, at level one: physical presence, to maximize the apparent show of force at a scene, the police may be outfitted in riot gear, head to toe armor, shields, batons, helmets, etc. This is the police officer’s 'power costume'.

       

      Well, you can wear a power costume too.

       

      Consider this, if you wear a suit and tie, the police will have a very difficult time hitting you because blue-shirt police take their orders from people wearing a suit and tie.

       

      If you wear a pink bunny suit, it will look very bad on TV seeing a police officer beating on girls dressed in pink bunny suits.

       

      If you wear a V for Vendetta Guy Fawkes mask with your suit and tie they don’t know what you are. This is powerful.

       

      Using the first three levels of force (presence of force, verbal direction, and empty hand control) on a police officer before he uses it on you, disarms him (or her).

       

      It can look like this: When the police arrive, you scan the group and locate the highest ranking officer. Then, in your suit and tie you smile professionally, make eye contact, hold out your open hands, walk enthusiastically up to the him, shake hands and introduce yourself, “My name is David Applebee. I am a Possibilitator. If there are any problems here, let me know what I can do for you. I’ll be right over there.”

       

      Physical presence, verbal direction, empty hand control. Sweet.

    • How To 'Disarm' A Police Officer

      with Jerry Boyle of the National Lawyers Guild

    • 6. And Hast Thou Slain The Jabberwock?

      There's no question that (r)evolutionary groups have done a great job with constructing a foundation for resilient communities in the heart of many of our most dense urban areas.

       

      People are already considerate with each other, despite personal discomforts.

      • They pitch in to work. 
      • Food gets served. 
      • The area gets cleaned. 
      • There is entertainment. 
      • There's innovation (circle meetings, improvised tech solutions, creative workarounds). 
      • There is education (lots of seminars being taught). 
      • There are authentic adulthood initiatory processes going on.
      • There are Exercises and Experiments. 
      • There is open, leaderless, participatory governance with Holistic Decision Making. 
      • There is streaming media 24x7x365 (interviews, opeds, confrontation scenes, theater pieces). 
      • There is legal support for dealing with the complexities of congregating and living in an urban, public space.

      All of this is great and this experience will definitely pay off over the next decade as the global economy deteriorates, panics, and dissolves. Experiencing co-intelligent collaboration at sit-ins and festivals and marches indicates to newbies that resilient communities are possible. Actually they are thriving around the planet beneath modern culture's new radars.

       

      The reason you are not living in a parallel-culture of archearchy already is that you cannot get there without preparations and without taking the 4 steps across the bridge to next culture.

       

      What you can do now is leave the psychopaths behind because you have learned to consciously feel and can, as a result, detect psychopaths at a distance. Then, like a bullfighter, you can hold the red cloth to your side rather than directly in front of your heart... and let them go charging by you.

       

      You can also prove to yourself that there are thousands of thriving parallel-cultures co-existing right now in the global ethnosphere. The marketing that the patriarchal empire does to promote the idea that modern culture is the dominant culture is just that, marketing.

       

      The empire is in rapid decline. It is unsustainable. Just keep letting the empire slide out of your life like a lizard sheds its skin. Make your 3Cell. Bring as many of your friends along as you can.

       

      Trying to fight psychopaths directly triggers their strong suit - stupid weaponized aggressions. It's what they are most afraid of being used on them so they use it on others.

       

      What is even more lethal to psychopath-topped hierarchies is divestment. There are four powerful ways you can divest from supporting the capitalist patriarchal empire (and, by realizing the ways to divest you also identify the ways you support the Jabberwock by not divesting...):

      1. Divest your money (stop buying from them).
      2. Divest your attention (stop watching their TV, their Win-Lose sports, and their advertisements).
      3. Divest your time (quit working for them). 
      4. Divest your children from their education programs (remove public schooling from your family life).

      By changing yourself and your life you have already slayed the Jabberwock. Instead of merely surviving in a survival-oriented culture, use your creativity to keep developing next culture lifestyles and connections.

       

      You have heard, "Build it and they will come." Perhaps you have not heard, "If you don't build it, no on even has a chance of coming." So build it, even if it looks like no one is coming.

       

      At the same time, the quicker western civilization Zombie culture is taken down the fewer species will be exterminated, leaving more life on planet Earth to regenerate ecosystems even if humans are gone. If you love life, then support groups like Deep Green Resistance with money and direct actions. Please.

    • 7. How To Manufacture A Tribe

      this section was copied from http://villageseed.mystrikingly.com/#a-village-is-a-tribe

      How do you manufacture a resilient community that protects, defends and advances the interests of its members? You build a Tribe.

       

      I spell the word 'tribe' with a capital 'T' to mean 'a tribe that has consciously built itself', 'a Tribe that knows it is one of the many possible Tribes that any human being can create and be a part of'.

       

      Most indigenous tribes do not teach 'cultural relativity' so the word for 'person' in most indigenous languages means 'the real people' or 'the human beings', and the word for 'foreigner' means 'the edible ones'.

       

      A Tribe (with a capital 'T') lives in the understanding that the construct the Tribe lives in together is 'bullshit'.

       

      'Bullshit' is a technical term that means 'arbitrary', or 'fabricated out of thin air', or 'very relevant but not true'.

       

      When you have experiential certainty that your own Tribe is a gameworld which you intentionally constructed out of a context, distinctions, thoughtware, Codex, Bill of Wrongs, and Rules of Engagement, then you do not have to go around inflexibly defending your Tribe to the death because you believe that IT IS THE ONE TRUE TRIBE that lives in the ONE RIGHT WAY, like happens in child-level religions.

       

      You just made your gameworld up out of nothing! You are proud to say that it IS bullshit!

       

      Taking ownership of your power to build a Tribe out of nothing, anytime, anywhere, with anyone, gives you the possibility to disidentify with, and reinvent, your gameworld whenever that would become necessary or desired.

       

      Your Tribe lives in the experience of the 'death and resurrection show'. You know the Phoenix Process from the inside. Your Tribe has Evolution at its center.

       

      This is what makes your Tribe bulletproof.

       

      Human beings have already known this for a long time, unconsciously, in our memetic structure. Tribal organization is the most survivable of all organizational types, being the dominant human cultural form for 99.99% of human history. Like a cockroach, it has proved it can withstand the onslaught of the harshest of environments.

       

      Global depression? Economic collapse? No problem.

       

      Coup? Regime change? No problem.

       

      Inquisition? Cultural cleansing? Democide? No problem.

       

      Climate change and collapse of global ecosystems? Well, don't kid yourself about this. You are one of millions of species of life on Earth, species which are going extinct - which means: killed off forever, never to live again on any planet - at the rate of 200 precious irreplaceable species per day. How long do you think before humans become the next species to go extinct if the fragile ecosystems that created and continue to support us are weakened or gone? Not as long as you might hope...

       

      In the meantime you might want to think about moving out of the city and building a Tribe. I make this invitation in that particular order very much on purpose.

       

      I have tried to 'build a Tribe and then move out of the city' a number of times. Each time we failed. Finally we figured out why. A Tribe that comes together in the city to talk about moving out of the city has already fulfilled its purpose: to be a group that comes together in the city each week to talk about moving out of the city.

       

      That is the purpose of the citydwellers. They were completely satisfied with the weekly-meeting Tribe. None of them actually wanted to move out of the city. They just wanted to talk about it.

       

      If you are like most people in the 'developed world,' you don't have any experience in a true Tribal organization. Indigenous tribes were crushed in the last couple of Centuries due to pressures from the nation-state that saw them as competitors, and by the marketplace that saw them as impediments.

       

      All you have now it is a moderately strong nuclear family (weakened via modern economics that forces families to split apart to 'earn enough money to survive'), a weak extended family, a loose collection of friends (a social circle of 'Facebook friends'), a tenuous corporate affiliation (as a slave, even if you are a manager or in the board of directors), and a tangential relationship with a remote nation-state (they will chase after you if they detect that you are not paying your taxes). This degree of connection, for many of us, is proving to be insufficient as a means of withstanding the pressures of the chaotic and harsh modern environment.
       

      The solution to this problem is to build a Tribe... a group of people you are loyal to, and who are loyal to you in return. In short, the need for a primary loyalty to a group that really cares about your survival and future success.

       

      To build a regenerative-culture Tribal, you need to manufacture 'fictive kinship', that is, you need to agree on 'the story of who we are together' as a Tribe... a Tribal identity. This is more than a brand. It is more than a 'mission' and 'vision'. Your Tribal identity emerges from the resonance that people feel towards the Bright Principles of your Tribe which provides energetic food that feeds their Being and gives them a real place to deliver the services of their Archetypal Lineage.

       

      Here are some possible new identities to shift into as a story about who you are and what you are doing together to establish a basis for the existence of your next-culture (archearchal) Tribal gameworld:

      Fictive kinship is built through the following (see David Ronfeldt's paper for some background on this):

      • Story telling. Shared histories and historical narratives.
      • Rites of passage to authentic adulthood (not just a driver’s license and the right to drink and vote) (for more on this see Of Water and the Spirit by Malidoma Somé, Secrets of the Talking Jaguar by Martin Prechtel, and Directing the Power of Conscious Feelings by Clinton Callahan). There are rituals of membership and life transitions. Membership is earned, not given due to the geographic location of your birth, or who your parents happen to be.
      • Obligations. Rules of conduct and honor. The ultimate penalty being expulsion.
      • Egalitarian and often leaderless organization. Sharing is prized.
      • Circular (Toroidal) organizational structures, not hierarchical.
      • Multi-skilled. Segmental organization (lots of redundancy among parts).
      • Two-way loyalty. The tribe protects the members and the members protect the tribe. If this isn't implemented, you don't have a tribe, you have a Kiwanis club.

      The 300 million strong (R)evolution Tribes of Cultural Creatives seems to be building a stable and recognizable identity. We are experiencing in certain moments the bondedness of fictive kinship.

       

      Our relationships and commitments to each other, and to our future together, are deepening.

       

      As part of the 99% we are regaining our individual and tribal voices. We are taking back our authority after 6,000 years of patriarchal servitude.

       

      Participating in (r)evolutionary gatherings, events, and initiations as your Tribe is a true rite of passage. (R)evolutionary spaces have protocols, customs, and rules of conduct which become apparent as you shift out of a shame-culture into an appreciation-and-personal-development-culture.

       

      (R)evolution is egalitarian and leaderless. It is spread out over different geographies. Given the efforts that have been put in to keep (r)evolution growing, it appears that people have become loyal to the (R)evolution Tribe.

       

      How to slay the Jabberwock? Here is how. If you use your inner Sword of Clarity (and the other 13 Tools on your Toolbelt) to Hold and Navigate Spaces so you live within a set of distinctions that are beyond the comprehension of the Jabberwock, then you leave the Jabberwock behind and it quickly dies of attrition.

       

      Keep sharing your new distinctions and the ways you got them. Soon you become a bridge to sustainable culture that other people can also cross.

       

      We can only go there together.

    • 8. What Is The 'Evolution' Part Of (R)evolution?

      If you look around and ask yourself, "What is the purpose of the Universe?" it does not take long to consider that the purpose of the Universe might be Evolution, particularly the Evoluton of Consciousness. Particularly the Evolution of the Consciousness of Consciousness.

       

      During the past 200,000 years, Gaia (the local field of consciuosness of Earth) served the Bright Principle of Evolution and evolved a climate and ecological systems that could support a biological form complex enough to become aware that it was aware. Voila! The naked monkey experiment began.

       

      There is great risk for Gaia in making this experiment. The risk is that the naked monkeys would avoid the first two initiations: I am not my body. And, I am not my mind/psychology/ego. As long as we lived in tribes and villages, adulthood initiations were cental. Gaia had hope.

       

      But then we invented agriculture which made it possible for some naked monkeys to shift out of living in tribes and start living in hierarchical structures within cities.

       

      The city is a machine of war. This is because a city can no longer grow its own food nor survive with the material resources within the city limits. The city has to have an army that can conquer and enslave the surrounding areas to steal the materials and force the slaves to grow and deliver food to the city. Without that constant flow of food the modern city would die within three days. With war machine hierarchies in place, authentic initiatory processes could be forbidden and adolescents and psychopaths could take over and run the show. This has been human history for the past 6000 years.

       

      Human beings only shift out of adolescence and begin the adulthood journey when forced to go through authentic adulthood initiatory processes. Why must they be forced? Because adolescence is too self-centered and greedy to give way.

       

      6000 years ago, adulthood initiatory processes were banished from the newly expanding patriarchal cultures. Why? Because authentic adulthood initiatory processes easily identify psychopaths.

       

      Authentic initiations lose 10% of the initiates (read Of Water And The Spirit by Malidoma Patrice Somé). Once identified, psychopaths are never allowed to hold positions of power in the tribe (read Original Wisdom: stories of an ancient way of knowing by robert wolff). Among other things, initiations protect the village from being taken over by psychopaths.

       

      Part of the culture-shift occuring now is the natural emergence of 'archearchy' after matriarchy and patriarchy have run their course.

       

      Archearchy is the culture of archetypally-initiated adult women creatively collaborating with archetypally-initiated adult men. Modern culture knows nothing about archearchy.

       

      Modern culture cannot be 'fixed'. This is because modern culture is not broken.

       

      Modern culture is doing exactly what modern culture is designed to do: transform nature into bank account numbers for the uninitiated at the expense of life on Earth.

       

      Modern culture cannot be changed into archearchy any better than you could eat dollar bills for breakfast.

       

      While modern cultures define adulthood by your physical age, archearchal cultures do not. Archearchal cultures understand that adulthood is a potential, not a given. In archearchy, adulthood is recognized in reality as it emerges step-wise during each successful completion of an authentic adulthood initiatory process.

       

      Modern culture knows nothing about authentic adulthood initiatory processes. Initiations are not given in any modern culture education program, not even at the post graduate level.

       

      In archearchy, the central value is not figuring out ways to get 'profit' for free, possessing properties, owning material goods, cleverly escaping responsibilities by externalizing costs to the environment, 'undeveloped' countries, or future generations. These are recognized as the adolescent values of the uninitiated.

       

      In archearchy, the central value - and the currency of exchange - is authentic adulthood initatory processes. Transformation is the path.

       

      The Bright Principle of Evolution is once again welcomed into the center of human culture.

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