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He advances irresistably, attacking emptiness.
Here’s how the future is going to look. Instead of voting in the next election, we each form a corporation. Each of our corporations can be based around a common “thank you” economic model of mutual abundance. We make money by licensing creative content: derivative works based on our physical existence and the unique new data patterns which we create and creatively rearrange through the living of our lives.
In strategic terms, if you know that your opponent is preparing to carry out total espionage about your armies, you play with his intentions and turn them on their head rather than trying to counter them head on. Your chess opponent outnumbers you 100 to 1 and even more technologically. Master Sun said:
“There are roads
Not to take.
There are armies
Not to attack…
Success in war
Lies in
Scrutinizing
Enemy intentions.
And going with them…
There is a season
For making a fire;
There are days
For lighting a flame.”
So you beat them to the punch. As Master Sun says elsewhere: “Set out after him, but arrive before him.” If you know your opponent is going to deploy total surveillance upon you, but has to pay lip service at least to the letter of the law, you act first within the law. You use nature’s qualities, to quote Lord Krishna. You make their position yin and you take the high ground so that your forces may descend upon them as boulders thundering down a steep hill.
Stay with me now: the only way to “beat” total surveillance of every thing in your life is to PRE-EMPT it. Record absolutely everything and make your business endlessly fractally cross-referencing all the ®eference p™ patterns you create and rearrange in the wake of your passing through a dataspace. THEN, you legally protect it as a corporation: which has the legal rights of an individual human within our society. Then you create many (an endless amount of) sub-corporations which are all constantly running off automated processes of arranging and rearranging the data sets leave you leave in your wake and figuring out mathematical formulas for licensing them to corporate and government clients.
That is, you trademark surveillance footage of you so that the government has to pay you for it. And then you further sell them derivative data sets recursively created off the content of your so-called life.
In this way, every person becomes not one television channel, but one billion constellations of virtual worlds and corporate sub-identies, which the government becomes the audience or consumer for. We become awake - we become aware of our wake. We stay awake we learn to manipulate from and profit off the abundance left in our wakes. Jesus said: I am the Wake, the Truth and the Life.
From there, each person is now an independent sovereign micro-nation composed of endlessly interlocking thank you conglomerates, which are then meshed through meta-narrative data arrangements (covenants, scripts, alliances, agreements - implicit and explicit) with other data being centers. Then each of these constellationangels™ unites with increasingly larger and larger networks of leveraged data processing and profit power. And we call ourselves the Incorporated States of America and everyone who is a citizen or wants to be a citizen of the United States would be offered membership in this mutually beneficial corporate mega-structure A Leaning Tower of GoogleBabelfish. And then that corporation would have the accumulated wealth to effectively lobby the ORDINARY United States government using totally legitimate and above the board tactics for changes which would TRULY reflect the needs of the average citizen.
That is, the American governmental system is built with a very fractal corrective system. You have the checks and balances of the various branches of the Federal government against each other. But the true check against the excesses of that essentially publicly controlled corporation is that private citizens can and do form other corporations other bodies other bodies other systems to continually modulate and correct the underlying mechanism of our society.
Or that’s the theory anyway. I don’t see why it can’t work. Conceptually, you might even be able to sue the federal government under the auspices of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act for violating your trademarked intellectual property rights by spying on you. One of the early stages of an implementation of this approach as I see it would be to create a corporation which gives regular people full ownership over their web browsing history. Sovereignty starts there. Your history is your story. It’s not you, but it should serve you, rather than the other way around.
August 5th, 2007 at 10:06 pm
Every moment becomes a reference point.
Every reference point becomes a corporation.
Sovereignty of each and every moment.
Every moment has the rights of a human individual.
Moments are created by corporations forming a mutual abundance panbeneficiary pact: you agree to creatively construct a moment together. You run according to certain basic scripts and data patterns when you do so: covenants.
You and I are constantly engaged in negotiating agreements between us. It is most effective in this process to be aware of what agreements you have made with yourself and how you are incorrectly seeking others to complete those agreements for you. You must not have any outstanding unbalanced self-agreements.
Each moment must be a completely sovereign covenantal congress of data angels.
Once you have completeness of agreements within your self, you can create cause effect truth exchange agreements with other sovereign congresses of data angels
There is no dark counterplayer. It’s just a player. And it’s just God. He just wants to play. He’s like a puppy. He’s trying to get your attention. His fingers are in your eye sockets.
August 6th, 2007 at 6:35 am
wow. This is cutting edge stuff here. This is a work of genius.
August 6th, 2007 at 7:15 am
Through irony, and /out the other side/…
August 6th, 2007 at 8:45 am
have you ever been in a court of law tim?
August 6th, 2007 at 11:30 am
tim, my apologies for what must seem like a pessimistic view of what you are suggesting.
maybe i`ve spent too much time in our orwellian reality struggling against the monolithic futility of modern consumer society, or maybe i haven`t tried hard enough?
i am encouraged to see that someone is still trying to slip the boundsof convention regarding personal financial sustainablity.
beware the sherriff of nottingham, he doesn`t strike me as the philosophical type.
August 6th, 2007 at 12:09 pm
I wasn’t being ironic. I guess I should have posted tripple exclamation points and smileys.
August 6th, 2007 at 12:10 pm
Some people are smart and figure out shit and get paid. happens all the time. Why can’t it happen to Tim?
makes sense to me.
August 6th, 2007 at 12:14 pm
There are lots of bohemian type dudes that become billionaires. I mean maybe not LOT’s but of all the billionaires, a good number are ex-hippies.
August 6th, 2007 at 12:40 pm
http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/
Zeitgeist - The Movie, 2007
August 6th, 2007 at 1:59 pm
All that needs to be shown is that he gets his money still no matter what. It should all function completely within the rules of the law. You don’t play chess and expect to use anything but the ordinary rules of movement for each piece, unless all players have agreed to do otherwise.
August 6th, 2007 at 2:08 pm
Look at your dollar: just lines printed on a little slip of paper. It’s just like a carnival ticket.
If you start messing up the games and cutting in line and taking tokens, you’ll get in trouble. But people don’t care if you leave the carnival, they don’t even notice.
August 6th, 2007 at 2:24 pm
No one’s taking any tokens or cutting in line, nor are we leaving the carnival. We’re just learning how to enjoy ourselves.
August 6th, 2007 at 2:29 pm
I imagine a world in the not too distant future where currency will be pegged to a universal reference point protocol (URPP) where the more points you create, re-configure and can process, the wealthier you will be.
August 6th, 2007 at 2:48 pm
Not to put too much of a damper on this because I see where you’re going with it and it could work for a while but whats you’re product? You’re selling something but what? Other people will figure out how to do this better and faster, the rules will change and you’ll be stuck.
Is your site going to change with the times as financial pressures demand, go back to a more marketable format or stay the way it is, kind of free form? Is your audience the readers or the computers that send you money? It seems to me that you can have both for a little while but not for long.
I personally hate it when I find a new site that looks right up my alley and get sent on a wild goose chase. I know you so it’s ok but how are you going to expand?
August 6th, 2007 at 4:37 pm
Not you, Ted; Tim.
August 6th, 2007 at 6:48 pm
adsense revenues will increase with traffic. i am assuming that the pay structure is linear and that google is good about payment. i have toyed with the idea of adsense at hypgnosys but my traffic is 100 visits on a good day and so i think that pays about a penny…….
August 6th, 2007 at 7:18 pm
Jwx, thanks for that link. I watched the whole thing, very good.
August 6th, 2007 at 8:13 pm
My “product” at this point is creating ideas and parables which people will mull over and ask questions about and try to apply towards making their experience of their life more fulfilling by aligning their intentions with their actions.
August 6th, 2007 at 8:16 pm
This is good. I can recommend this to people with tastes that differ greatly from mine.
August 7th, 2007 at 3:26 pm
This is great stuff, Tim.
I’ve been thinking about that for awhile, registering myself as a corporation. I always got stuck at how to implement, though. And then I start thinking about Choco-Tacos and forget about it for a few more weeks.
I commend you on beginning to flesh this out.
Beauty.
Peace.
October 5th, 2007 at 2:32 pm
[…] Apparently Portugal is closest to having this system actually implemented on a national scale, followed by its colonial cousin, Brazil. This is also fairly similar to some of the ideas I have been exploring with regards to individuals being paid licensing fees by governments and corporations in exchange for surveillance and data mining. I’ve often thought about how similar my receiving checks in the mail is to people who receive welfare or unemployment. The only difference really is who gives me the money: private corporations instead of the government. That, of course, and that I add value into the system by producing content and harnessing audiences for advertisers to target. […]