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Name: Joe Kelley
From: Connecticut
Bio: Social Scientist Autodidact
Area of Expertise: Research Scientist/Illuminator
Topic: Global Relationships/Politics
Headline: Lemonade is made with lemons
Nutshell: The internet can be welcome voluntary agreement.
Vision:Society is welcome voluntary agreement. The whole, the entity called society is our common desire to connect, and the substance of society is each individual choice to connect. We welcome connectivity and we agree to connect. Government, in its absolute form, is the maintenance of our liberty to disconnect. These observations become true as technology brings our species ever closer toward the ideal social condition.
As our ability to facilitate welcome connectivity progresses while we still maintaining sound government with the capacity to remain liberated from unwelcome connectivity our species will prosper in proportion to this advancement. Prosperity illuminates the true form of society.
We will advance and prosper exponentially as welcome voluntary agreement is supercharged through a network. A network of welcome voluntary agreement that maintains liberty (welcome and voluntary does not include unwelcome and involuntary) will bypass the physical barriers of ignorance. The network produces social knowledge in proportion to welcome voluntary connectivity. Anyone desiring anything from the network can find the object desired instantly once the network arrives at full connectivity. Each individual in society can then choose to connect to the welcome connection of society and gain the knowledge desired in the shortest time possible once the network advances toward the fullest possible connectivity.
In contrast our human past has suffered extreme social ignorance.
Previous to the network, a person was required to manually find the information of desired connectivity. Going from house to house or from a list of names in a phone book the individual member of society, in our recent past, was hard-pressed to discover social information; the connectivity of welcome voluntary agreement.
As the network connects everyone desiring to connect to everyone welcoming connectivity instantly the only remaining problem will obviously become government or "how to" maintain liberty and the choice to disconnect from undesirable and unwelcome social connections.
This Social Scientific understanding was earned through careful individual research with the reluctant help of many and the eager contributions of a few. The proof of this truth remains to be realized.
I suspect that as long as the Network remains stupid, a simple connection with no conscience, we the people of society can manage to maintain our own choice of conscience at the ends.
Date Submitted: May 29, 2005