I have been using much of the same language. Sowing seeds. Planting trees in whose shade I will not sit. Liberating our children's children.
And yeah, I am not in this to be recognized as a founder of anything. (Sometimes I think I would be more successful if I were more ego-driven, since that seems to be a trait of many successful people!) But really, I just want to help create a future of justice and peace.
I would rather plant wildflowers and watch the bees buzz on them, and open a wedding venue and help people get married. But we are needed here, in this space, in this time. Whether or not I am recognized is unimportant. I will do my part.
Disregarding some true apocalyptic rupture, the transformation before us is guaranteed to pass.
I don't see our next #Civic Agora# as "recruitable".
Not actively, at least.
The remnants cannot possibly belong in any traditional sense.... any conventional or historical sensemaking becomes obsolete.
To “belong,” as we once knew it, is a dangerous nostalgia: a metaphysical security blanket from an era when identity was scarce, signal was slow, and trust could be ritualized.
That world is long gone, Max.
In the epoch now forming, ephemeralized minds will not submit to robes or ranks. They will not be recruited. Instead, they will auto-aggregate through metabolism and resonance. They will swarm, dissolve, and reassemble... guided only by ToM (Theory-of-Mind)-aligned interfaces, sovereign stacks of intention, and feedback rituals that reward negentropic coherence... not entropic obedience.
Belonging, in this new frame, gives way to co-participation with exoselved boundaries:
You will not join.
You will not be assigned.
You will be recognized, moment by moment, as part of an emergent alignment… until you are not.
Here’s the evolutionary force: in a metabolic world, belonging is replaced by loop closure. We are mid-transition: global MEMORY is giving way to global METABOLICS. Every remnant is no longer a permanent community, but a temporary attractor— tuning forks, not temples.
Keep your head on a swivel. And thank you! —your work remains remarkable.
This is really interesting and insightful. And almost certainly true. I find only a small quibble:
"In the epoch now forming, ephemeralized minds will not submit to robes or ranks. They will not be recruited. Instead, they will auto-aggregate through metabolism and resonance. They will swarm, dissolve, and reassemble... guided only by ToM (Theory-of-Mind)-aligned interfaces, sovereign stacks of intention, and feedback rituals that reward negentropic coherence... not entropic obedience."
In certain ways, this has always been the case. That is, people assemble and reassemble based on common interests, values, and needs. Ask Tocqueville in America, or Freemasons in 1700s London. We don't need sophisticated network dynamics or techie ToM for this to be true. So people will indeed willingly submit to robes and ranks. They do it all the time. Just watch a teenager play a video game, or a young fighter learn martial arts. Now, add prospects of guided personal development and trajectory toward experience of the sublime, aided by wise mentors, and you've got a gravity that keeps people orbiting.
My closest fellows and I might not be the source of such gravity, but others will.
This is good stuff.
I have been using much of the same language. Sowing seeds. Planting trees in whose shade I will not sit. Liberating our children's children.
And yeah, I am not in this to be recognized as a founder of anything. (Sometimes I think I would be more successful if I were more ego-driven, since that seems to be a trait of many successful people!) But really, I just want to help create a future of justice and peace.
I would rather plant wildflowers and watch the bees buzz on them, and open a wedding venue and help people get married. But we are needed here, in this space, in this time. Whether or not I am recognized is unimportant. I will do my part.
Slow, steady, unrelenting. Egos aside. We need you.
🙏
Disregarding some true apocalyptic rupture, the transformation before us is guaranteed to pass.
I don't see our next #Civic Agora# as "recruitable".
Not actively, at least.
The remnants cannot possibly belong in any traditional sense.... any conventional or historical sensemaking becomes obsolete.
To “belong,” as we once knew it, is a dangerous nostalgia: a metaphysical security blanket from an era when identity was scarce, signal was slow, and trust could be ritualized.
That world is long gone, Max.
In the epoch now forming, ephemeralized minds will not submit to robes or ranks. They will not be recruited. Instead, they will auto-aggregate through metabolism and resonance. They will swarm, dissolve, and reassemble... guided only by ToM (Theory-of-Mind)-aligned interfaces, sovereign stacks of intention, and feedback rituals that reward negentropic coherence... not entropic obedience.
Belonging, in this new frame, gives way to co-participation with exoselved boundaries:
You will not join.
You will not be assigned.
You will be recognized, moment by moment, as part of an emergent alignment… until you are not.
Here’s the evolutionary force: in a metabolic world, belonging is replaced by loop closure. We are mid-transition: global MEMORY is giving way to global METABOLICS. Every remnant is no longer a permanent community, but a temporary attractor— tuning forks, not temples.
Keep your head on a swivel. And thank you! —your work remains remarkable.
This is really interesting and insightful. And almost certainly true. I find only a small quibble:
"In the epoch now forming, ephemeralized minds will not submit to robes or ranks. They will not be recruited. Instead, they will auto-aggregate through metabolism and resonance. They will swarm, dissolve, and reassemble... guided only by ToM (Theory-of-Mind)-aligned interfaces, sovereign stacks of intention, and feedback rituals that reward negentropic coherence... not entropic obedience."
In certain ways, this has always been the case. That is, people assemble and reassemble based on common interests, values, and needs. Ask Tocqueville in America, or Freemasons in 1700s London. We don't need sophisticated network dynamics or techie ToM for this to be true. So people will indeed willingly submit to robes and ranks. They do it all the time. Just watch a teenager play a video game, or a young fighter learn martial arts. Now, add prospects of guided personal development and trajectory toward experience of the sublime, aided by wise mentors, and you've got a gravity that keeps people orbiting.
My closest fellows and I might not be the source of such gravity, but others will.
I’ve been thinking more about what you wrote here. What if something like this contained the community and established protocols for a new attractor basin? https://humanrespectlabs.substack.com/p/the-collective-intelligence-revolution
Too early in the morning(for me) to offer an intelligent comment other than say articles like these are the reason you remain one of my favorites.