Editing User:Ziggy/rbe10k

I believe I have a pretty decent understanding of an [[RBEM]], as per ''[[TZM|Zeitgeist]] [[Zeitgeist Moving Forward|Moving Forward]]'' and ''[[Designing the Future]]'', and a pretty decent understanding of why the pursuit of profit is the cornerstone of the vast majority of the social and environmental problems that some or all of us are suffering in these times, as per ''[[Zeitgeist: Addendum]]'', and a few seminars and radio shows by [[Peter Joseph]]. My understanding does not go much beyond that, it is not really highly educated, I haven't read much or participated a lot in the [[TZM]] or [[TVP]] structure (''even though I was the coordinator of [[TZM Sydney Chapter|Sydney chapter]] for a while, and respected in the community''). Maybe because of my general understanding of [[w:Zen|Zen]], [[w:Taoism|Taoism]], [[w:atheism|atheism]], [[w:ecology|ecology]], [[w:biology|biology]], [[w:phisics|phisics]], [[w:politics|politics]], [[w:history|history]], [[w:hacker ethic|hacker ethic]], [[w:psychology|psychology]], and especially [[w:scepticism|scepticism]]<ref>Video: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OLPL5p0fMg Qualiasoup - Critical Thinking]</ref>, [[w:open mindedness|open mindedness]]<ref>Video: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T69TOuqaqXI Qualiasoup - Open-mindedness]</ref>, [[w:Laws of thermodynamics|the first and second laws of thermodynamics]], and the fact that I'm a graduate of a number of courses in [http://www.landmarkeducation.com Landmark Education] and as a result I no longer dwell on negativity or superficiality, I can tie these basic general background understandings to the concepts described in the ''Zeitgeist 2 & 3'' films, and ''Designing the Future'', to "get" certain concepts easier than some others. Also, because of my [[w:Asperger syndrome|Asperger syndrome]], I tend to find and "see" patterns on information easier than others, and be more analytic and obsessed with [[w:meaning|meaning]] and [[w:consistency|consistency]]. Consistency, for me is paramount, and it causes a great deal of frustration and social interaction issues. I feel I always need to be consistent with my [[w:Intrinsic value (ethics)|principles]] and [[w:Value (personal and cultural)|values]]. Before Landmark I also used to be bothered by being consistent with my [[w:Norm (philosophy)|Norm]]standards and [[w:Idealism|ideals]], but now I understand how wasteful that is, and have swapped that for consistency with my objectives instead. Seeking (''or demanding of oneself'') consistency can be very paralising, but also very insightful, because it becomes easier, I believe, to spot the problems, the inconsistencies that make a philosophy, proposal, behaviour, or plan unworkable or dubious, or incomplete. And I saw many inconsistencies in TVP, both whilst working with them in the software development team for designing Corcen, and as an activist for TZM prior to the break-up. In the case of TZM, I see inconsistencies in their handling of horizontality, possibly resulting from not having an absolutely clear and unquestionable objective, well defined, as a motto, short and easy to remember, printed everywhere, reminded to everybody all the time, ensuring that everybody understands that TZM has two visions and two objectives only, and the rest is not TZM, nor shoud be associated in any way to TZM. The result of this lack of clear definition (''I believe the definition is clear to me, but is not so for many'') results in a circus of chapters doing whater they want, deriving interpretations and meanings freely that are inconsistent with the rest of the chapters. I really didn't want to be part of the circus, I wanted to be part of TZM as I understand it: raising awareness about the problems that create the pursuit of profit, and how to resove it through the implementation of an RBEM system. Clear and simple, everything else (technology, permaculture, energy, gadgetery, alternative housing, politics, religion, diet, philosophy, psychology, etc) is not and must not be TZM nor be associated in any way with TZM, IMHO. This is how I left TZM (''actually, the Sydney chapter dissolved by lack of voluntary participation and I refused to chase and motivate people to get them to do something productive in concert with the objectives of TZM, as per my understanding of what these objectives are''). And seeing myself in love with RBEM and my understanding of TZM core, but left without a functional TZM or a consistent TVP I began entertaining a consistent strategy to implement RBE consistent with TZM's principles of voluntarism and horizontality, and also intended to be realistic and achievable in the short term. I came up with these [[w:Obsessive–compulsive disorder|OCD]]-based perfect numbers of [[Brave 10,000|10,000 people]], [[RBE10K/Objectives#Budget|$10,000 dollars contribution share, $100 million budget]], [[RBE10K/Plan|two years planning]], [[RBE10K/Objectives#Primary objectives: short term, one off RBEM experiment|two years testing]], [[w:exponential growth|exponential growth]] [[RBE10K/Objectives#Secondary objectives: long term, expansion of the RBE10K settlements|every two years]], and an [[RBE10K/Objectives#Potential of the project|objective of achieving global voluntarist RBE within a lifetime (''40 years''), by 2055]], so I would have a chance to see it happen. It seemed neat, consistent, reasonable, achievable (''in terms of number of volunteers, knowing how many people are participating in TZM internationally and really willing to get on board of an RBE experimental city''), a reasonable budget and a reasonable share (''at least for middle class in developed nations'').

So I decided to give up with my proposal within TZM to use a Wiki worldwide to document TZM's information, mostly about RBEM and chapter information, and inviting TVP activists to document in it too about their structure and strategies, as I had achieved no popularity and the information I added personally on the Wiki I installed was too poor to be of any practical use, and I was unwilling to continue with it if no one was going to use it. I had registered it as tzmwiki.org (''a domain name which still works and points to the same wiki''), so I decided to register a generic rbem.org and start working on this idea I had developed as an alternative RBEM implementation proposal to that of TVP's, and called it RBE ten thousand, or [[RBE10K]] for short. I documented the general idea and goals to have it clear for myself and ensure it was clearly documented somewhere public, documented terms and conditions of participation in an effort to prevent the same pollution and circus that affected TZM's freedom, horizontality and voluntarism (''their terms and conditions are a long document, full of regulations for the activities of chapters, the kind of stuff that only lawyers and people involved in politics are keen to read, and frequently debate over meaning and violation of policies, which allows for a lot of room for boureaucracy, self-appointed leadership and commanding positions of policy awareness and policing, blaming and punishing, and all those nasty nasty un-RBE-like attitudes''). Have you seen my [[RBE10K/Participation/Agreements| RBE10K Project participation agreements]]? I made them as synthetic and consistent as possible, but yet open to debate and polishing by the [[RBE10K/Contributors|community]], to ensure [[w:Consensus decision-making|consensus]], workability, being realistic, and functional. I believe it has to be a short read, in which you can tick through the options according you one's individual values and principles (''and standards and ideals for those who still follow those useless, IMHO, parameters''), and objectives, and ensure consistency and agreement with at least the great majority, and at most a minor and workable discent in just a few of them. That for me was the beginning of the project and I considered it ready to get started, but it was only November and I wanted to have it be neat, [[The RBE10K Project#Project schedule and timeframe|starting 1st of January 2013]], so I added more information, developed a few more ideas and a few more pages, gave a seminar on it on a sustainable festival on the 30th of December and the project was well received, so on 1st January I began promoting it. Created the [[RBE10K/Facebook page|Facebook page]] a few days later, came up with strategies to have it be more popular, used strategies I had found convenient with the promotion of [[Sceptic Gaianism]] page promotion (''using interesting pictures/memes with insights, which most people dismiss and share because the picture or meme itself is interesting, but there are those who actually read the text and develop a more profound interest in the page than the pretty pictures, but using this system allows for virality, and virality is a great promotion tool!''), so I added a few pictures with insights about my personal vision, both to record it somewhere before it gets lost, and to inspire interest and debate.