Commentary by Roger Erickson
This report by our State Department is as fascinating for what it omits, as it is for the oft horrifying abuses it includes.
The report includes many provocative memes and abuses, from the "cost of a job" to sex slavery and child prostitution. Unfortunately, a comprehensive "desired outcome" is not spelled out. Consequently it is not possible to comprehensively address all the seemingly disconnected needs with a coordinated list of goals, policies, strategies and tactics, plus a set of operations able to drive a continuously evolving campaign to achieve the - unstated - outcome state.
That may be a failure of omission, or it may be a purposeful effort to divide and conquer, by continued distraction.
So let's describe our own, desired outcome. Our State Dept. is incapable, so this is a job for all of us. Are we a nation of innovative citizens, or just a collection of people with no common rights and interests, ruled at will by idiot savant merchants incapable of imagining what a nation is capable of doing?
What do we want? The world will never be perfect, so it's a battle of statistics. How about this as at least one of many suggestions to consider? We want to be able to optimally manage the statistical variance in citizen options, so that every nation and culture can become all that they can become?
How do we achieve that? Simple in concept, untrackable in all details. We want to enable the net quality (including tempo) of distributed decision-making to constantly improve. There's 99% consensus that such achievement requires distributed democracy and optimal use of all citizens in coordinated teamwork. Dissent comes only from an "interested" 1%, and their abused, "trafficked" acolytes, concentrated in BOTH Red States and Blue Cities. Are the GOP/DNP really all that different than the Sinaloa/LosZetas, or the TBTF/ECB for that matter - or are they simply an order of magnitude more sophisticated in their highly rationalized "trafficking" methods. Recent disclosures have finally driven home the reality that, with enough rationalization, you can make a religion or a Royal family out of sin itself.
Now we can jump to tactical interactions.
There's a whole spectrum of human trafficking abuse, ranging from the distributed "disappeared" fractions held beneath our noses, all the way to the 99% held overtaxed and underfund at the insistence of the 1%. At one tail of the spectrum, kidnappers don't have to transport individuals in order to "traffic" them. At the other tail, Wall Street banksters don't have to physically move serfs or the poor to economically "traffic" in their manipulation and economic abuse.
Since these issues are all socially connected, via the "connective-tissue of cultural coordination, the same distributed solution applies to all. The need for more organization. Everything connected to everything, or at least re-connected, on demand, just-in-time, just-as-needed. That's called cultural agility, and it's what we need most of all.
The best way to help any and all forms of the disappeared or the looted is to help ourselves, so that we don't LACK THE RESOURCES to simply protect our own citizens, neighbors and family members ... from the 1% or so in all categories, that prey upon their own 99%. The simplest and most effective response is to reconstitute the middle class in the USA, and then encourage all countries missing a vibrant middle class to follow suit. Anything less constitutes random, ineffective tactics that cannot usefully sum to a whole greater than the sum of their parted efforts.
And, once pursued, all will agree. It's what all secretly want, even those uselessly hoarding the most.
Ironically, criminologists say that it's not uncommon for crooks of all sorts - from those practicing ignorant violence to those perpetrating artfully distributed fraud - to thank "regulators" of any sort, for finally stopping them! They're often grateful that someone stopped them from doing what part of them didn't really want to do, but the rest of themselves couldn't restrain from doing. Being of a truly social species, few humans indeed truly want to be isolated by their own actions. 99% prefer group acceptance, and the security of belonging. No amount of hoarding (of static assets) can replace the need for dynamic assets (social affinity).
The private/public feedback balance which defines Social Species, quite obviously extends into every form of interaction existing among our citizens. We should not shirk from admitting that fact, and using it to scale up the unlimited potential of a truly Open Source Society.
This report by our State Department is as fascinating for what it omits, as it is for the oft horrifying abuses it includes.
The report includes many provocative memes and abuses, from the "cost of a job" to sex slavery and child prostitution. Unfortunately, a comprehensive "desired outcome" is not spelled out. Consequently it is not possible to comprehensively address all the seemingly disconnected needs with a coordinated list of goals, policies, strategies and tactics, plus a set of operations able to drive a continuously evolving campaign to achieve the - unstated - outcome state.
That may be a failure of omission, or it may be a purposeful effort to divide and conquer, by continued distraction.
So let's describe our own, desired outcome. Our State Dept. is incapable, so this is a job for all of us. Are we a nation of innovative citizens, or just a collection of people with no common rights and interests, ruled at will by idiot savant merchants incapable of imagining what a nation is capable of doing?
What do we want? The world will never be perfect, so it's a battle of statistics. How about this as at least one of many suggestions to consider? We want to be able to optimally manage the statistical variance in citizen options, so that every nation and culture can become all that they can become?
How do we achieve that? Simple in concept, untrackable in all details. We want to enable the net quality (including tempo) of distributed decision-making to constantly improve. There's 99% consensus that such achievement requires distributed democracy and optimal use of all citizens in coordinated teamwork. Dissent comes only from an "interested" 1%, and their abused, "trafficked" acolytes, concentrated in BOTH Red States and Blue Cities. Are the GOP/DNP really all that different than the Sinaloa/LosZetas, or the TBTF/ECB for that matter - or are they simply an order of magnitude more sophisticated in their highly rationalized "trafficking" methods. Recent disclosures have finally driven home the reality that, with enough rationalization, you can make a religion or a Royal family out of sin itself.
Now we can jump to tactical interactions.
There's a whole spectrum of human trafficking abuse, ranging from the distributed "disappeared" fractions held beneath our noses, all the way to the 99% held overtaxed and underfund at the insistence of the 1%. At one tail of the spectrum, kidnappers don't have to transport individuals in order to "traffic" them. At the other tail, Wall Street banksters don't have to physically move serfs or the poor to economically "traffic" in their manipulation and economic abuse.
Since these issues are all socially connected, via the "connective-tissue of cultural coordination, the same distributed solution applies to all. The need for more organization. Everything connected to everything, or at least re-connected, on demand, just-in-time, just-as-needed. That's called cultural agility, and it's what we need most of all.
The best way to help any and all forms of the disappeared or the looted is to help ourselves, so that we don't LACK THE RESOURCES to simply protect our own citizens, neighbors and family members ... from the 1% or so in all categories, that prey upon their own 99%. The simplest and most effective response is to reconstitute the middle class in the USA, and then encourage all countries missing a vibrant middle class to follow suit. Anything less constitutes random, ineffective tactics that cannot usefully sum to a whole greater than the sum of their parted efforts.
And, once pursued, all will agree. It's what all secretly want, even those uselessly hoarding the most.
Ironically, criminologists say that it's not uncommon for crooks of all sorts - from those practicing ignorant violence to those perpetrating artfully distributed fraud - to thank "regulators" of any sort, for finally stopping them! They're often grateful that someone stopped them from doing what part of them didn't really want to do, but the rest of themselves couldn't restrain from doing. Being of a truly social species, few humans indeed truly want to be isolated by their own actions. 99% prefer group acceptance, and the security of belonging. No amount of hoarding (of static assets) can replace the need for dynamic assets (social affinity).
The private/public feedback balance which defines Social Species, quite obviously extends into every form of interaction existing among our citizens. We should not shirk from admitting that fact, and using it to scale up the unlimited potential of a truly Open Source Society.
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