The leftist affinity-group model is similar to and intentionally smaller than your proposed model, but one flaw of their anarchy-based model is the inability to change and grow.
Hierarchy is the model. Nature provided it. Fractalled (sp?) pods are the local level connecting with the other locals, in a way. Do I get that right? I agree with the majority of your summations. I think it needs concrete examples as to how the inter operative pieces work for others to grasp?
I think that small towns and maybe even medium towns have operated this way. A lot is inherent in “family” and those we love, don’t you think? I have a share that isn’t perfect, but to me succinctly defines some of this. We each have to own our individual responsibility, and educate our children and ourselves while continuously defending and living our sovereignty.
I came across this video doing another type of search. It aligns with most of these concepts. https://youtu.be/zsLa0tHz7n0. I only see one ‘trigger’ and that’s for women who may this this is a sexist view. I am a woman, and do not agree with that. I can have my freedom and still be protected by the man I love/married. Cit.Doc - does this provide one example?
Rebecca, I only just found your comments on this page from Oct 5. On that day, I got several alerts and some of yours were pushed down the list and off the screen before I saw them, and I didn't think to expand the list. Sorry not to respond sooner.
Thank you very much for your thoughtful comment and for linking to the video of DeWayne, the horse wrangler, talking about self-responsibility. He lays out so well a philosophy that is fully consistent with Fractal Sovereignty and which may very well be more than a sound philosophy but may also actually represent a universal threshold in the development of consciousness. This is taught by Adamu, who believes that humanity has the opportunity to transition to what he calls Unity Consciousness. It may seem paradoxical, but Unity Consciousness depends on self-responsibility. This is the paradox that Fractal Sovereignty is meant to embrace: balancing individual sovereignty with global unity.
About pods: they represent cohesive social units that choose to speak with one voice, and so can be individuals, families, communities, regions, nations or hybrid mixtures of any of these. There is no imposed structure, Nexus is entirely self-organizing. Just as biological systems naturally evolved cells, organs, etc., under the guiding principle of "what works" in a given environment, Nexus would do the same. There are countless structures that CAN work (countless species of animals, for example) depending on the environment, and the environment can and does change over time. Both life and Nexus have the built-in capability to adapt.
I wrote a comment months ago on another substack about the physical and informational constraints that all systems are subject to:
"We are stuck with hierarchies. As Dr. Monica pointed out elsewhere, social hierarchies naturally form because there is a limit to the number of personal connections an individual can maintain (Dunbar's number) beyond which "mitosis" occurs."
"But hierarchies are more general. Think of the progression: quark, nucleon, atom, molecule, cell, organ, organism, habitat, ecosystem, biosphere, planet, solar system, star cluster, galaxy, galaxy cluster. But why?"
"One way to look at it is that volume grows more rapidly than surface area. The larger something is, the smaller is its external interface in proportion; the surface becomes a bottleneck for external interconnections. And internally, for each subunit to be fully interconnected with all other subunits requires a factorially large number of connections (much greater than exponentially large). So, for both geometrical and numerical reasons, "mitosis" occurs and a hierarchies form."
Thank you Sir! I appreciate your writings and comments very much, and that you actually viewed the video link. I’m going to have to read up about Dunbar’s number, as that’s a new one for me. I also appreciate your clarifications. I think your model is extremely simple and embraceable, and wish for more people to understand it. I think it’s the concrete examples that are missing? Or that since you are not offering a polarizing system, reinforcing biases that ignite emotions, you are being missed out upon. This example you gave about hierarchical progression is great! Quark etc. I have to go back and review mitosis, too. I appreciate you stretching my brain muscles! I’ll be watching for any new material you create. Thanks again.
And examples of decentralized structuring of society are mentioned throughout my series of articles on decentralization from a decade ago, two of which I've reproduced on this substack: Decentralized Manufacturing and Decentralized Energy. Unfortunately the other articles on Decentralized Money, Education, Agriculture, Security, Religion, Government, Communication and Medicine are only available on archive.org now. The main point is that every area of society can benefit from decentralization and there are many ways to go about this.
You're probably right that my work hasn't attracted as much interest because I intentionally avoid the current dramas. I've always been most interested in focusing on fundamental and universal understandings, that apply to any time and any place, including the work I did as a scientist. Most of the topics I write about will still be relevant a century or a millennium from now, whether on Earth or any other planet. And besides, there are many writers here on Substack doing a great job bringing light to current contentious issues, better than I could.
By the way, the only reason I found your comment on this page is because I came here to turn off comments and I wanted to make sure I had read them all. I'll keep the comments on for a least a while longer.
The other thing they have that most other groups don't is total and complete unity around one specific topic/issue: End all Mandates.
They are not getting distracted by what IS or ISN'T "sCiEnCe", nor are they talking about any other issue that is problematic for children (Domestic violence, abuse, human trafficking). They don't deny that those issues exist nor that they are problematic. But they do keep the focus on just the mandates.
This makes it harder for The Powers That Be to try to infiltrate and "change the message" as I've seen happen too often in the US.
While I agree with your ideal and systems as described, I'm not entirely sure if/how they would work outside of a single-message platform. And humans by our nature are not single-issue people.
Hierarchy is a relevant concept in some areas and not in others. In the cultural/'spiritual' sphere hierarchy and relative value is relevant. Some people are geniuses or 'masters,' others are not. Some results of art or science or educational or healing offerings are outstanding, others are clumsy or dilletante-ish.
In the area of rights and legal, the same concept is not appropriate, We should all be equal before the law and have the same rights (generally speaking, at least; I'm not an expert.)
I don't disagree. I'm not sure how hierarchy doesn't apply in the course of legality while keeping with being seen as all equal before the law. Wouldn't the justice system be the hierarchy involved, even at the local level? Think conceptually of family unit, then street or neighborhood, etc. I'm trying to get from a natural model to see the human hierarchy working with the fractalled pods.
The leftist affinity-group model is similar to and intentionally smaller than your proposed model, but one flaw of their anarchy-based model is the inability to change and grow.
Hierarchy is the model. Nature provided it. Fractalled (sp?) pods are the local level connecting with the other locals, in a way. Do I get that right? I agree with the majority of your summations. I think it needs concrete examples as to how the inter operative pieces work for others to grasp?
I think that small towns and maybe even medium towns have operated this way. A lot is inherent in “family” and those we love, don’t you think? I have a share that isn’t perfect, but to me succinctly defines some of this. We each have to own our individual responsibility, and educate our children and ourselves while continuously defending and living our sovereignty.
I came across this video doing another type of search. It aligns with most of these concepts. https://youtu.be/zsLa0tHz7n0. I only see one ‘trigger’ and that’s for women who may this this is a sexist view. I am a woman, and do not agree with that. I can have my freedom and still be protected by the man I love/married. Cit.Doc - does this provide one example?
Rebecca, I only just found your comments on this page from Oct 5. On that day, I got several alerts and some of yours were pushed down the list and off the screen before I saw them, and I didn't think to expand the list. Sorry not to respond sooner.
Thank you very much for your thoughtful comment and for linking to the video of DeWayne, the horse wrangler, talking about self-responsibility. He lays out so well a philosophy that is fully consistent with Fractal Sovereignty and which may very well be more than a sound philosophy but may also actually represent a universal threshold in the development of consciousness. This is taught by Adamu, who believes that humanity has the opportunity to transition to what he calls Unity Consciousness. It may seem paradoxical, but Unity Consciousness depends on self-responsibility. This is the paradox that Fractal Sovereignty is meant to embrace: balancing individual sovereignty with global unity.
About pods: they represent cohesive social units that choose to speak with one voice, and so can be individuals, families, communities, regions, nations or hybrid mixtures of any of these. There is no imposed structure, Nexus is entirely self-organizing. Just as biological systems naturally evolved cells, organs, etc., under the guiding principle of "what works" in a given environment, Nexus would do the same. There are countless structures that CAN work (countless species of animals, for example) depending on the environment, and the environment can and does change over time. Both life and Nexus have the built-in capability to adapt.
I wrote a comment months ago on another substack about the physical and informational constraints that all systems are subject to:
"We are stuck with hierarchies. As Dr. Monica pointed out elsewhere, social hierarchies naturally form because there is a limit to the number of personal connections an individual can maintain (Dunbar's number) beyond which "mitosis" occurs."
"But hierarchies are more general. Think of the progression: quark, nucleon, atom, molecule, cell, organ, organism, habitat, ecosystem, biosphere, planet, solar system, star cluster, galaxy, galaxy cluster. But why?"
"One way to look at it is that volume grows more rapidly than surface area. The larger something is, the smaller is its external interface in proportion; the surface becomes a bottleneck for external interconnections. And internally, for each subunit to be fully interconnected with all other subunits requires a factorially large number of connections (much greater than exponentially large). So, for both geometrical and numerical reasons, "mitosis" occurs and a hierarchies form."
https://themariachiyears.substack.com/p/a-personal-note-to-readers/comment/5131316
P.S. I agree with you about women and men. I have written about this elsewhere.
Thank you Sir! I appreciate your writings and comments very much, and that you actually viewed the video link. I’m going to have to read up about Dunbar’s number, as that’s a new one for me. I also appreciate your clarifications. I think your model is extremely simple and embraceable, and wish for more people to understand it. I think it’s the concrete examples that are missing? Or that since you are not offering a polarizing system, reinforcing biases that ignite emotions, you are being missed out upon. This example you gave about hierarchical progression is great! Quark etc. I have to go back and review mitosis, too. I appreciate you stretching my brain muscles! I’ll be watching for any new material you create. Thanks again.
You are most welcome, Ma'am! I, in turn, appreciate your thoughts, feedback and support.
About examples: perhaps this article might give some idea of the kinds of voluntary actions that could be coordinated using Nexus:
https://fractalsovereignty.substack.com/p/truckers-and-stackers
And examples of decentralized structuring of society are mentioned throughout my series of articles on decentralization from a decade ago, two of which I've reproduced on this substack: Decentralized Manufacturing and Decentralized Energy. Unfortunately the other articles on Decentralized Money, Education, Agriculture, Security, Religion, Government, Communication and Medicine are only available on archive.org now. The main point is that every area of society can benefit from decentralization and there are many ways to go about this.
You're probably right that my work hasn't attracted as much interest because I intentionally avoid the current dramas. I've always been most interested in focusing on fundamental and universal understandings, that apply to any time and any place, including the work I did as a scientist. Most of the topics I write about will still be relevant a century or a millennium from now, whether on Earth or any other planet. And besides, there are many writers here on Substack doing a great job bringing light to current contentious issues, better than I could.
By the way, the only reason I found your comment on this page is because I came here to turn off comments and I wanted to make sure I had read them all. I'll keep the comments on for a least a while longer.
The other thing they have that most other groups don't is total and complete unity around one specific topic/issue: End all Mandates.
They are not getting distracted by what IS or ISN'T "sCiEnCe", nor are they talking about any other issue that is problematic for children (Domestic violence, abuse, human trafficking). They don't deny that those issues exist nor that they are problematic. But they do keep the focus on just the mandates.
This makes it harder for The Powers That Be to try to infiltrate and "change the message" as I've seen happen too often in the US.
While I agree with your ideal and systems as described, I'm not entirely sure if/how they would work outside of a single-message platform. And humans by our nature are not single-issue people.
Hierarchy is a relevant concept in some areas and not in others. In the cultural/'spiritual' sphere hierarchy and relative value is relevant. Some people are geniuses or 'masters,' others are not. Some results of art or science or educational or healing offerings are outstanding, others are clumsy or dilletante-ish.
In the area of rights and legal, the same concept is not appropriate, We should all be equal before the law and have the same rights (generally speaking, at least; I'm not an expert.)
I don't disagree. I'm not sure how hierarchy doesn't apply in the course of legality while keeping with being seen as all equal before the law. Wouldn't the justice system be the hierarchy involved, even at the local level? Think conceptually of family unit, then street or neighborhood, etc. I'm trying to get from a natural model to see the human hierarchy working with the fractalled pods.