Hi all~

What I get from a synonym discussion my dictionary offers below it's definitions of "rigid":

Synonym discussion: rigid, rigorous, strict, stringent mean extremely severe or
stern.

rigid implies uncompromising inflexibility [rigid rules of conduct].
rigorous implies the imposition of hardship and difficulty [the rigorous training of
recruits]. strict emphasizes undeviating conformity to rules, standards, or
requirements [strict enforcement of the law]. stringent suggests severe, tight
restriction or limitation [stringent standards of admission].

What I get from my dictionary on "hierarchy" (root of "hierarchical"):

: a group that controls an organization and is divided into different levels
: a system in which people or things are placed in a series of levels with different
importance or status

What I get from it on "taxonomy":

: the process or system of describing the way in which different living things are related by
putting them in groups
: orderly classification of plants and animals according to their presumed natural
relationships

Bruce, are you proposing by your call for help establishing a *rigid hierarchical
taxonomy* that we design a questionnaire able to catalog activists applying for
membership to a wannabe overarching database, which classifies everyone according
to values, interests, and commitment to honoring both as shown by applicants'
communications skills?

What is it about the internet folks use today, that doesn't look like enough support for like-
minded sorts to meet, who're wanting to collaborate to advance solutions and/or their
development?

RhonnaLeigh

P.S. Do you know why our text isn't wrapping to fit this message-composing box? My text
was spilling all outside it like yours still is, 'til I inserted page breaks at the right-hand
margins of the composition field. Is this a glitch I could compensate for some easier
way?

--- On Sun, Oct 12, 2014, Nirmalan Dhas wrote ---

A network based on disagreement will be much stronger than one based on agreement...

N --- On Sat, Oct 11, 2014, Bruce Schuman wrote ---

I think where this is going -- is towards a very simple universal activist interface, designed to support collaboration among all kinds of groups and activists working for a better world.

Basic design to make it work:

• keep it absolutely simple
• weed out all possible controversy and points of disagreement
• make it applicable for every sector and every issue

So, let's say this is a big-picture holistic image of problems/issues in the world -- all interconnected, all critical, all demanding collaborative solutions:

We need a way to get 100,000,000 citizens, or a billion, and thousands of NGOs (non-governmental organizations, activist groups of every kind who see something like this vision, or care passionately about some part of it), all interconnected through a very basic network, in a form that can create a million alliances on every possible interconnected point of concern.

In this holistic/global context, it's about every issue at the same time, at all levels of social organization. Every issue is connected to every other issue, in an interdependent mutually-influencing way. We need to see this, model and map it, and convene a local-point adjudication and balancing of those dimensions at that local point.

Levels of categorization of this process might look like this:

• 12 basic sectors of the "wheel of co-creation", top-down hierarchical taxonomy defined by intergroup consensus
• 15 defined issues of critical international importance
• 12 general areas of concern for any community
• strict hierarchical/scientific taxonomy, rigid categories with bottomless capacity for detail
• organizational/interpersonal correlation, similarities/affinities, points of alliance
• model of neural structure in the human brain

All of this can be extremely fluent, combining the stability of a top-down ("hierarchy") rigid taxonomy with the absolute fluency of bottom-up ("circle") tagging.

This is the essential design for a "universal alliance engine" that can interconnect constructive motivation wherever it arises.

Put simply, this is what we are doing:

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