User:Janosabel

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I am a dreamer wanting to turn good dreams into reality.

I like the writing in this wiki and the approach it takes with community, that oh so vague term.

I am also interested in history and passionate about Whole Systems social change. That means I could not be satisfied with a haven to escape to while the rest of the world is "going to the dogs".

So a community for me is a means to an end: world transformation via experiment, example and demonstration. This seems to make me into an irritant or, at best, a conversation stopper, in most communities and networks. Sometimes I am told to go somewhere else. I mention this just in case people here may not think of it :-). But before someone takes on this idea, think about the "Dangers of not having a vision" http://www.diggersanddreamers.org.uk/wiki/index.php/The_dream#Vision

It is nice to have a life with like minded people in a corner of a large estate of a benign or uncaring master --- a kind of ornamental shanty community (no offense meant, please). But what if our destiny is to reach the "moon" of justice, fairness, freedom --- all that --- for all? Including the current, frightened "owners"; a possible good world the Diggers and Levelers dreamed about?

The Diggers did fail, but the world is different now, even if the expropriators think it not. We are (or can be) educated, have, the internet, the chance to work together --- all six billion+ of us against the remaining minority who thinks they own the earth's resources.

The "Time Horizons" we do not forget. Ten years it took to land on the Moon once the vision and the determination got launched...

Ten years to get to that "another world" the social change movement declares as possible. We have a branch of science, Systems Science, to make the journey possible. But we must get to know it enough to trust it as being nothing like technocracy and social engineering dreamed of by the theoreticians of the NWO. Yes, there is a darker dream that will be a nightmare for most of us, with or without a community to retreat to.

That nightmare needs our countervailing dream turning into vision then reality, before it is too late.

[edit] What can/should we learn from the Diggers and Levelers of history?

If you want to exist in relative freedom you have to buy out the "owners" and commit self-exile from society at large?

Sometimes slaves were allowed to buy their freedom if they could scrape together enough in a life time. Of course, there was always the easier but risky way of turning to crime --- usually against your own kind.