Written by Mihai Dragan on Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010 ( Start discussion )
Tags: internet, new-age, social system, utopia
Or rather … the country. The continent. The world of the Internet.
A rather interesting idea crossed my mind last night. I was thinking about the global challenges that humanity is facing today. The ones we all know about: global warming, crash of the economy as we knew it, globalization, unequal distribution of wealth (read some about it here) and many others.
I thought about the ants. As individuals they are insignificant. As a group they are amazing. They construct structures we are not able to (maintaining the proportions). They are organized and act as a whole organism.
So do humans, but with one big issue – the communication. We worked pretty well in tribes, cities but now we have to communicate globally. Our social structures are expanding. The rules we use to organize do not apply any longer. What rules should we establish now?
The mind of the many
The internet is a chaotic and at the same time a self organizing thing. A brain if you like. Its neurons are the people that use it. The connections – its synapses. We started thinking globally and not just as a metaphor.
We might now use this concept and develop it. We could create a new country, a new continent, with new rules that apply to new times.
This structure would not be one led by governments but by the best performing citizens, just as our brain controls our body. There won’t be any taxes that we don’t already pay. The economics would be self balancing and self adjusting.
Social status would not matter. What would matter would be the outcome of one’s efforts. The best intellectuals, the best concepts would rise to the top, no matter the race, sex or ethnicity.
The system would be called Internetism, the social system that gathers the best of previous ones.
Is it an utopia or a reality we are yet to accept?
Written by Mihai Dragan on Wednesday, November 19th, 2008 ( 2 responses )
Tags: capitalism, concept, internitism, social system, socialism, theory
The world spawned many organizational systems. Be it economic, social, religious or other I doubt we have reached a perfect global organizational system.
Socialism is Nirvana on paper but everywhere it was applied people manged to ruin things up. Working class leaders started and lead revolutions until they made it on top. Once there, they either became the dictators everyone feared (see the Chinese leader Mao Zedong), started revolution after revolution until shot dead (see everyone’s favorite t-shirt icon and political leader Che Guevara) or ruled the country into poverty and famine until stopped by citizens or outside security services.
Capitalism seems to be the wiser choice due to the higher standard living in capitalist countries and better economic trades, based on private property, free markets and investment concepts. Nothing is perfect however, as shown by the recent financial crisis.
Capitalism and socialism are just the tip of the iceberg as these systems can’t be managed without subsystems like the democratic structures, religious beliefs, military structures and others.
As the world gazes upon the ever-rising globalized economy a new low-level, barely perceptible structure arises. It is just a theory but I believe something I call Internitism is being born (don’t look it up, there is no such word. Yet.)
What is Internitism?
First of all Internitism is a full scale social system we are just beginning to understand and actually perceive. It features political structures, a special kind of democracy, its own economic regulations and markets (some that live beyond the off line economy), carefully delimited influence areas and territories.
Internitism does not care about color, geographical location, wealth, social class, religion or sex. In other words it might just be the perfect system.
Internitism is the web space and everyone inside it. Internitism is a new continent where people can (still) think and act freely, uninhibited by the social standards and regulations.
Its ever-growing influence and spread are the proof mankind tends to improve itself and think as one. The Internet is growing at a faster and faster rate, gathering more and more knowledge, having more and more adopters.
Think of Internetism concept as an ideology, rather than a social system, for a better understanding. You might want to see it from a different angle as it is already the ideology with the largest number of adopters in the world.
