A “Commons“
….Is a place, where
An organic culture
defines and makes its home
- as its defensible and public space
- for its communities of participants
serving as a “hive” for its internal relationships
- usually as inclusive and equitable interconnections
- (everyone to everyone)
serving as a “hub” for its external relationships
- with its local niche of ecological partners
- with its open environment
- (exploratory connections)
- with and networks of remote exclusive connections
- (one to one)
As its “Niche” in the world and “living space”.
… for example
A “body” is a commons for its cells
- But bodies are organized differently than their cells, each needing to be part of a different culture
A “town” is a commons for its villagers
- But every town develops from its unique circumstance, so the usual patterns associated with the words are really questions about the individual thing
A “nest” is a commons for its family or swarm
- Living things need to sleep, and make secure places where they can “tune out” at night, to reemerge refreshed.
- and so too the organizations of a commons, that come to a rest at night, to awake refreshed by the reflections of rest.
The Earth is a commons for life
__________
The “Culture” occupying the Commons
…is << a different thing>>
the organization that develops
- the physical interrelationships of its parts
- the animated, eventful and energy using physical parts and processes
- the virtual relationships
- as artifacts of the living physical relationships, left as virtual parts in the life patterns of its organization
with the “common language” we develop, for their internal and external relationships,
- a “virtual organization” for their “physical” organization”
- with the natural “meanings of the words” in direct relationship with the “organization of the things” the words refer to;
- As a “direct relationship” between words and things, developing along with the organization of the culture by
- accumulating life experience with
- the things of the Commons and Nature,
as people explore LIVING
- by discovering and developing their physical relationships with the webs of the commons and of nature
- and their understanding of the “true meanings” of words and “meanings of life” the words refer to
- as the connection of the physical things and experiences of life,
- both making words into connected parts of the natural world and serving to ground and enrich the meanings of language
JLH 9/10/13
Related Tweet’s on the nature of “sleep” and living things waking “re-freshed” by it :
1 That living things “rest to refresh” is a matter of “house-keeping” in homes of the living cultures residing there. https://synapse9.com/signals/2013/09/10/a-commons-is/
2 The need to rest and refresh, and start a “new day” is the same with ALL of nature, and the life of daily activity, the home and office too.
3 A day starts with a cleared mind and rearranged mental furniture.. with reaffirmed convictions and worries, delusions too of course.
4 The economy, following rules of science…never gets to rest, but churns ever harder to expand and expand, forced to grow in unhealthy ways.
5 The pain of recessions are a sign of it, forced “re-tooling without a break”, and very painful! But science doesn’t know what sleep is for!