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From: Hazel Henderson <hazel.henderson at ethicalmarkets.com>
Date: Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 3:20 AM
Subject: FW: P2P Foundation - new articles
To: Ethical Markets Media <winwin at ethicalmarkets.com>
Cc: Barbara Marx Hubbard <bmh at evolve.org>, Michel Bauwens <
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    Hi Melanie :   Please post this on
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on our   Wealth of Networks page ,  Hazel

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*"P2P Foundation <http://blog.p2pfoundation.net>" -  new articles*

   1. From Owning to Flowing <#126860a7946fd173_30834_0>
   2. Free Cooperation vs. the Old Utopias <#126860a7946fd173_30834_1>

*From Owning to
Flowing<http://feedproxy.google.com/%7Er/P2pFoundation/%7E3/7HuuPiPev24/30>
*

Republished from *Jean-Francois Noubel’s* editorial on the underlying
philosophy <http://noubel.com/from-owning-to-flowing/?> of the
MetacurrencyProject<http://p2pfoundation.net/Metacurrency_Project>
:

*“**Our consumer society has built an ideology of accumulation. This is
triggered by the scarce monetary system. Rather than sharing the stuff we
need, we accumulate it in our basements, garages and backyards**. Skis,
furniture, toys, lawnmowers, tools, washing machines, books (ah, books!),
DVDs, carpets, dishes, clothes… This stuff doesn’t circulate, nor it
isshared. It piles up in every house. How would the consumer’s economy
be if
we didn’t have to reproduce the same artifact a zillion times? How would it
be if we shared? How would it be if everything became a flow?*

*Today we unconsciously perceive ourselves as endpoints, as final
destinations of whatever object or service the world creates if we need it,
just like little children at early age. This nourishes an underlying
egocentric experience at the societal and cultural levels. This economic
infrastructure based on conquering and accumulating stuff by means of
harshly conquered money doesn’t help us become systemic human beings. We
don’t see ourselves as harmonious beings serving and being served by a wider
whole.*

*We operate exactly the same with knowledge. We accumulate knowledge in our
inner basement. Knowledge that was first poured in our heads at school (this
is the dominant vision of school programs in most cultures). How much of it
do we really make publicly available? How much do we freely redistribute?
How trained are we to pass it on, naturally, fluidly? These new social media
and free economies are so odd in regards to what we learned at school…*

*We, at the MetaCurrency group, are building the infrastructure that will
help us experience wealth as flows that go through us, be it in material and
immaterial form. In the culture of flows we don’t need to accumulate. We
need to receive what’s necessary at the right time, then pass it on. The
flowplace will be one of the platforms for this.***

*We shift from owning to flowing.*

*Having the thing we need at the right time, and pass it on? This is a
natural property in small communities (original collective intelligence)
that operate in the gift economy. Original collective intelligence provides
a built-in synchronistic structure where personal needs are met at the right
time, which in return enables us to offer our wealth to the commons. But
humanity has not yet been able to scale it up. The only strategy was the
market economy within the pyramidal collective intelligence and its scarce
currency system.*

*The evolutionary threshold is that now we can scale up the properties of
original collective intelligence (and still benefit from the amazing
evolutions of pyramidal collective intelligence). We are now on the verge of
inventing the language of flows, so that wealth can flow through us at the
right time according to our needs, rather than accumulate in our backyards
after a long and exhausting hunt for scarce money.*

*This new level of complexity requires a new techno-economic infrastructure.
Just like the printing press, this is going to create a new culture. **
**
This culture is already manifesting in the open source economy. Sociology
shows also that more and more people are leaving the conventional culture
(see cultural creatives). They undomesticate themselves (the Vow of Wealth
is certainly one of these steps). The coming generations will learn flowing
rather than owning. It begins today with knowledge, it will soon apply to
the material world.”*

See also this video explanation, with Jean-Francois Noubel in conversation
with Barbara Marx Hubbard on free currencies:

Free currencies : an evening talk with Barbara Marx
Hubbard<http://vimeo.com/8495502>from
TheTransitioner <http://vimeo.com/jfnoubel> on Vimeo <http://vimeo.com>.

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*Free Cooperation vs. the Old
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*

(a republication from February 2006)

Excerpts from a transcript
<http://republicart.net/disc/aeas/spehr01_en.htm>of a video interview
with
Christoph Spehr.

This interview sets out very clearly the criteria to which contemporary
forms of cooperation must abide by.

*1. Free Cooperation vs. the Old Utopias*

*“Political utopia, utopian thinking today has to differ from most of the
stuff we are familiar with as political utopias. I think, the first
important thing is that it has to be non-prescriptive. Most utopian thinking
is prescriptive in the sense that it dictates people what to do. The idea
behind it is that if you set up proper rules, then society will run okay.
But these rules have to be respected, of course, it’s like a cage built by
the author of the utopia, and then you can put people in, and they have to
follow the rules, and then it will work. And this, I think, is something
that is not acceptable today and can never be a free utopia. So you have to
build your utopia on the fact that people do what they want, you cannot
impose your ideas of the right consciousness, of right and wrong, you cannot
rule out some desires, some actions as wrong, this is what you have to do. I
think this is very important. I think it is also necessary that utopian
thinking is not elitist in the sense that you have an elite that has the
right consciousness, the right knowledge, a group of decision-makers, of
scientific thinkers that can define for others what is the real case, but
you have to build utopia on an equal community, where it does not matter
what people have read and what theories they are acquainted with. Yes, it
has to work with different people and they have to have the possibility of
participating on an equal basis. They should not be excluded, access to this
utopia should not be restricted by the question where people, where a person
comes from. I also think that today political utopias can no longer be
hierarchical. By this I do not want to stress the point of hierarchy and
organization, but a hierarchy of main stuff and minor stuff, of the fields
of the social that are seen as important and others that are seen as not so
important - which is typical of classical utopias. In fact, we know a lot of
utopian thinking that says: “The core business, what we call economy, is
what big business does. Is how tools are made, and other aspects like
raising children or doing creative work, acting together in a modest and
proper way are minor stuff and have to follow the rules of the others. And I
think this is illegitimate - because it is always combined with a hierarchy
between different people doing different stuff in these utopian societies -
and a clear case of inequality. So one could say you have to bring utopia
back to the kitchen. It has to work there and the rules of the kitchen have
to be the rules of bigger cooperations - not the other way round. Everything
that people do together is a kind of cooperation because they share work and
they use the work and the experience and the bodily existence of others -
also historical and direct and indirect ways. And though there are two
extremes, free cooperations and forced cooperations, most of what we know in
most societies is forced cooperation.*

*2. Foundational rules of the new cooperation*

*There are three aspects that have to be taken into account if you want to
build a free cooperation. The first is that all rules in this cooperation
can be questioned by everybody, there are no holy rules that people cannot
question or reject or bargain and negotiate about - which is not the case in
most of the cooperations and organizational forms that we know. And the
second aspect that has to be guaranteed for free cooperation is that people
can question and change these rules by using this primary material force of
refusing to cooperate, by restricting their cooperation, by holding back
what they do for these cooperations, making conditions under which they are
willing to cooperate, or leaving cooperations. They must be guaranteed the
right to use these measures to influence the rules and that everybody in the
cooperation can do this. And the third aspect - which is important because
otherwise it would be just a blackmailing of the less powerful ones by the
more powerful ones - is that the price of not cooperating, the price that it
costs if you restrict your cooperation or if the cooperation splits up,
should be …not exactly equal …but similar for all participants in this
cooperation, and it should be affordable. That means, it can be done, it’s
not impossible, it’s not a question of sheer existence to cooperate in this
way.*

*3. Free cooperation and capitalism***

*Capitalist markets have some aspects that cannot be transferred to a free
cooperation. For instance, it is unacceptable, that the more successful a
participant of the market is, the more they can exclude every other
participant. And it’s clear that in capitalist markets the main aspect of
competition is not being better or having better ideas, but applying more
force against others to produce cheaply. Of course, this cannot be an
element of a market in a free cooperation.”*

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