In this dialogue Miles and Jakob cover the general points online scientists, artists, companies and startups needs to be aware of when opting to become internationally future ready. Use the slideshow to choose the headline and watch the video which best suits your business paradigm. If you haven’t had enough from the seven clips below then watch the end of the dialogue discusssing the immediate future here.
This post is meant as constructive criticism and relevant questions to the video presentation below by Peter Joseph + team (PJ). It claims to be an introduction, and as such, perhaps one can excuse the prevalence of unsupported claims, rather than evidence-based arguments. Still, people I respect have suggested me the video and so I re-watched it, to be able to engage in reasoned dialogue with them about this presentation of the thinking behind Resource Based Economy (RBE).
The slideshow holds questions and comments to the content of the presentation, while my general comments regarding the video as an example of a brief online lecture are below. The intended use of this versus player essay is scrolling through the slides and pausing the PJ video, when you come to each quote, to read my criticism and consider the questions. My aim is to understand the possible benefits of a Resource Based Economy, so the questions are those I’d really like answered by people who claim to be able to explicate this stuff.
I believe I agree with PJ that we should all engage in a process of becoming more aware of our world and come to greater understanding of it, so that we can learn ourselves and teach our children to live more sustainably. However, the relevance of this debate in any age lies in it’s ability to let immediate, intermediate, constructive and implementable solutions come to the fore.
General comments
There is a general problem with the rhetoric of this presentation. ‘Science’ is not truth, as it is posited here. It is difficult to agree on a universal definition. I would suggest that ‘science’ is an anachronistic amalgamation of the imperfect constants, terms, tools and models we have in use today.
PJs presentation of the ‘scientific method’ shows a lack of understanding of how what we call science has come to exist at this stage in time. Also it generalises and marginalises other systems of thought. In short – it espouses ‘science’ as a religion dogma – COMPLETELY without explaining what this ‘science’ is. This is a major problem for the internal logic of this presentation. Also, PJ relies on sweeping generalizations and unsupported (within this presentation) claims.
This presentation, one must then assume, has a target audience of people who do not themselves understand much about the development of paradigms throughout the history of science or history in general; people who are not trained in critical thinking and analysis and people who are comfortable with living within a system where their governing truths are out of their league of questioning. It has a strong emotional appeal, trough powerful imagery and narration, presumably to attract people who would be ready ready to invest in an outside authority of perceived ‘scientific rationality’ (The Venus Project) and hoped-for benevolence (The Zeitgeist Movement).
In conclusion, I must say that this video presentation mainly raises questions for me. It presupposes many things and makes so many unsupported claims that it is difficult for me to see how it can further a debate on sustainable human living. Several people I respect for their personal commitment to wanting to help achieve a better world seem to think a Resource Based Economy is the answer. Why? What is it I’m missing here? Can someone please explain?
For those interested in Soul United’s ideas on the state of the world and which solutions could be fruitfully implemented, see our Basic Social Economics videos. If you wish to learn more about how to engage critically with online material, you could start by checking out a few videos by Douglas Rushkoff.
Soul United is undergoing transformation. Constantly. Like all entities resonating in timespace. We try to let our local and global webpages reflect this fact so that the forward motion becomes transparent to all. Following some of the links in this post will have you flipping between both. We have had to develop our open source business principles to the point where our business has become to produce free, beta-state, ‘dogme-like‘ interactive online material.
Rip, mix and share
Our work has become a real-time, ‘behind-the-scenes’ documentary project illustrating the process of drawing these diverse ideas and philosophies together and building a network to disseminate them. This post is a quick catalogue of synergies, partners and projects that we have not yet found the time to present in a more inclusive format on either the Danish or our international site. It is also a callout to anyone interested in spreading the word, chipping in or becoming part of this open source experiment. We need each other. You found us - think that was just random coincidence?
Partnerships of Potency
We have initiated collaboration with several individuals deeply involved in community management, paradigm shifts and alternative media. Claus Skytte, Miles Hingston (youtube channel), Chris Moore, Troels Ketel Nørballe, Francoiscamera (youtube channel), Christian Kock and Asta Wellejus? are among our most future ready collaborators. We have also agreed on a ‘partnership of intention’ with Scandinavian Media Association.
Connecting the Dots
We arranged for the documentation of the IRL absurd theatre play ‘Winwin’ with 770 degrees Celsius and in the process of editing the material for promotion of their future plays. We attended Niels Harrits lecture at Valby Kulturhus and networked. We have appeared twice on America Freedom Radio’s ‘The Vinny Eastwood Show‘ and have invested social capital and presence in the crowdsourced Compass Bar.
Learning by Just Doing It
On the front of education paradigm shifts Jakob has become editor of ArkenTV and their virtual presence. We look forward to demonstrating true future ready academia. Teased and uncut. We have also consulted the startup vocation agency Vocare on their communication strategies. We are working to secure office space at KPH Projects.
Lyrics of Love
The dreams and ideals we try to humbly avatar through Soul United are timeless and resonate on many levels. Anders Justian has just now independently released his first album with a river of songs that inspired the ambitions, gratitude (and lyrics) of the oft too perfectionistally equilibrist co-founder of this journey. Listen here to some of the Mythical Dualities if you like to breathe music while you learn more.
Slipstream of Synergies
We have had great success, both locally and internationally, in finding interesting citizens to engage in dialogue. We interview people all over the world in many fields, who are working on projects involving changing paradigms within the tensionfield between technology and philosophy. We would like to present all the works in a full documentary storyboard format, like we did our dialogues with Thomas Sheridan. But we have had to develop this minimal format in order to have time to engage more people.
Projects Practically Planned
Right now we are putting together in realtime a symposion on the upcoming Danish National Elections. After that, we will direct our focus towards presenting the tools and methods we are developing by combining existing open source software. We need to produce open source introduction videos to the following concepts: Conference Caller, Versus Player, Gauntlet player, Lovedrop, Bluebook and Livedrop. We sample research from diverse fields to projects current internet trends into the future and describe the types of community communication software and habits that will become increasingly popular.
The HUM
Low-tech, peer2peer production and exchange of material is becoming ever more prevalent. Our method is to describe how these types of future products and services can be approximated using open source technologies of today and then encourage key companies, communities and individuals, using qualitative marketing to invest time and resources into their further development. Direct, two-way, authentic communication; open source projects; local, crowdsourced innovation and evolutionary empowerment are the ways of getting future ready.
In a few hours we will be at Iværksættermessen in Forum. After that we will gather intelligence from the streets by attending Folkenihilistisk Vælgermøde. Soul United are principles manifesting when people come together in dialogue. Please contact us if you have information or social capital to contribute.
Jakob Steen Madsen hosts this trialogue with Miles Hingston and Pelle Esbensen in an attempt to tease out deep perspectives of all the many new incarnations of old phenomena that increasingly people our world. Find out how you can tap into shamanic power, balance your online and IRL presences, outsource your knowledge base into communities of trust and become a famous, archetypal, everyday hero of the 21st century. Watch the entire 90 minute trialogue here. This trialogue is presented only in the minimal format, of our Versus Player demonstration of a documentary education storyboard.
These six teaser videos of the trialogue covers the basics you will need if you consider yourself up to the task of being the programmer of your own future. From the cutting edge of our combined research we allow the conversation to flow freely and take on aspects that we could not have scripted beforehand. As this is to be considered a work in progress we have not had time to post links to all the resources mentioned.
We truly wish we could have brought you this material in better quality, but we surrender it here to your hungry minds in trust that the content will be worth your time and you’ll find the authenticity of the intentions helpful. We are in the continued process of learning to use these tools to best advantage and we only insist on sharing our open source experiment.
Jakob Steen Madsen hosts this trialogue with Miles Hingston and Pelle Esbensen in an attempt to tease out deep perspectives of all the many new incarnations of old phenomena that increasingly people our world. Find out how you can tap into shamanic power, balance your online and IRL presences, outsource your knowledge base into communities of trust and become a famous, archetypal, everyday hero of the 21st century. Watch the entire 90 minute trialogue here. This trialogue is presented only in the minimal format, of our Versus Player demonstration of a documentary education storyboard.
These six teaser videos of the trialogue covers the basics you will need if you consider yourself up to the task of being the programmer of your own future. From the cutting edge of our combined research we allow the conversation to flow freely and take on aspects that we could not have scripted beforehand. As this is to be considered a work in progress we have not had time to post links to all the resources mentioned.
We truly wish we could have brought you this material in better quality, but we surrender it here to your hungry minds in trust that the content will be worth your time and you’ll find the authenticity of the intentions helpful. We are in the continued process of learning to use these tools to best advantage and we only insist on sharing our open source experiment.
This is the third dialogue between Thomas Sheridan and Jakob Madsen which forms the basis of this documentary project. It is also, in my opinion, the best of the three dialogues, which makes it one of the most worthwhile presentations of information I have ever been privy to. Many of the topics of the previous two dialogues are explained here in greater depth. This post concludes phase one of our documentary project with Thomas. The complete presentation of the three dialogues together form an example of a new type of interactive teaching or self-study aid.
By making the original recorded skype dialogue available not just in it’s full length on youtube, but also as a complete chronological storyboard and with a teaser post like this highlighting the most important parts, you make the material easily accessible and digestible for many. The slides with their notes and hyperlinks makes it easy to get an overview of the topics of each clip and begin your own further research. The whole point of this type of postproduction is to encourage the viewer to interact with the material presented and not just receive passively. Here you can access the first, second or third dialogue post.
We are well aware that the sound quality of these clips are not up to professional standards and that you could employ things like background music and visual effects to keep viewer attention. We believe that it is the combination of the value of the content in combination with the transparency of the underlying intention which will be crucial to the communication of the future. So we have made these examples to demonstrate what is already possible to produce with free software and cheap hardware.
The only expenses we have incured in this production are the volunteer manhours we have invested. That said, if you get any value from work that we produce we really need your help and support to continue and expand our vision. Comment, repost, contact us, donate your time or invest your money in our work and learn about our methods by collaborating with us on a project. All financial support we receive at this point will be spent on necessary gear for the volunteers. Soul United exists to creatively help enhance value creation.
Soul United presents the newest feature from the cutting edge of edutainment: The Dialogue.
- 1) The dialogue format provides your material with an emergence and a living authenticity, which can newer be faked or reproduced in any monologue format no matter how many effect you pile on top.
- 2) It’s cheap and easy to produce this kind of learning aid.
- 3) With better videoediting skills than we posses at the moment, you can easily improve on the quality of the material. However, when the important thing is getting the message out there and facilitating the further independent study of others, you don’t have to make a perfect of professional product the first time.
- 4) A Liberal Arts education is not something dusty pulled from a forgotten library shelf. It’s a pulsating element of our lives in the 21st century. It’s a simple methodology we can all use to improve our life quality. Watch the entire dialogue on youtube or select the interesting clips and access the resource links on our storyboards trivium and quadrivium.
Here are the embedded links to all the most important people and sources mentioned throughout the dialogue. They open in new windows, so you can browse while the dialogue is playing. This is by no means a complete list of resources, but it still represents a wealth of information and inspiration. More than you need, actually, and most of the online stuff is free. These are the tools you need to take the power back all you have to do is will to spend a little time finding out for yourself about the trivium and quadrivium.
Jan Irvin: Gnostic media. Paul Verge: Divergent films. Scott Onstott. Secrets in plain sight.
MV group. Academic Earth. Symposion. The Art of Rethoric (the classic book and the easy to use webpage).
Sister Miriam Joseph: Trivium. Facebook group Trivium Education. Trivium Education website. Platonic solids. Roleplaying dice. Wooden books: Quadrivium. Fractals + tesselations. Vi hart. Escher. Salvadore Dali. Tarot. Eddie Izzard. Umberto Eco (Kant and the Platypus). Lost – TV show. Jesse Abrams. Do you want to know more?
Soul United presents the newest feature from the cutting edge of edutainment: The Dialogue.
- 1) The dialogue format provides your material with an emergence and a living authenticity, which can newer be faked or reproduced in any monologue format no matter how many effect you pile on top.
- 2) It’s cheap and easy to produce this kind of learning aid.
- 3) With better videoediting skills than we posses at the moment, you can easily improve on the quality of the material. However, when the important thing is getting the message out there and facilitating the further independent study of others, you don’t have to make a perfect of professional product the first time.
- 4) A Liberal Arts education is not something dusty pulled from a forgotten library shelf. It’s a pulsating element of our lives in the 21st century. It’s a simple methodology we can all use to improve our life quality. Watch the entire dialogue on youtube or select the interesting clips and access the resource links on our storyboards trivium and quadrivium.
Here are the embedded links to all the most important people and sources mentioned throughout the dialogue. They open in new windows, so you can browse while the dialogue is playing. This is by no means a complete list of resources, but it still represents a wealth of information and inspiration. More than you need, actually, and most of the online stuff is free. These are the tools you need to take the power back all you have to do is will to spend a little time finding out for yourself about the trivium and quadrivium.
Jan Irvin: Gnostic media. Paul Verge: Divergent films. Scott Onstott. Secrets in plain sight.
MV group. Academic Earth. Symposion. The Art of Rethoric (the classic book and the easy to use webpage).
Sister Miriam Joseph: Trivium. Facebook group Trivium Education. Trivium Education website. Platonic solids. Roleplaying dice. Wooden books: Quadrivium. Fractals + tesselations. Vi hart. Escher. Salvadore Dali. Tarot. Eddie Izzard. Umberto Eco (Kant and the Platypus). Lost – TV show. Jesse Abrams. Do you want to know more?
Soul united has conducted a series of dialogues with the Irish writer and artist Thomas Sheridan about his research and his art. Here you can access the first, second or third dialogue post. Sheridan recently published the book Puzzling People: Labyrinth of the Psychopath, a text we consider a historical step forward in understanding our current society. Sheridan has explored the topic of psychopathy through his art, his blog and his youtube channel over a number of years. We are currently in the process of producing a documentary feature based on these dialogues and we want to involve you in the process. To do this material justice, we need ideas, video-editing skills and manhours. So we are crowdsourcing the production by sharing the material and the creative process as open source as we can.
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This is the first of the three dialogues we’ll be presenting. Thomas and Jakob hash out the state of the world over an hour and a half using Skype. They touch upon topics like: Florescent lighting, architecture, geometry, education, magic, sacred prostitution, Wall Street, mythology, pornography, Obama, intuition, Al Gore, secret societies and nursing homes to mention but a few. The slideshow attached to each clip contains notes on the conversation and inspirational links for your own further research about the topics discussed. We don’t have the time to subtitle the material ourselves and welcome volunteer contributions to this effect using universal subtitles or a similar program. See the full-length interview on youtube or pick any clip that might interest you from our chronological storyboard. If you are yourself a creator of alternative media you are welcome to use any of our material under creative commons.
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Soul united has conducted a series of dialogues with the Irish writer and artist Thomas Sheridan about his research and his art. Here you can access the first, second or third dialogue post. Sheridan recently published the book Puzzling People: Labyrinth of the Psychopath, a text we consider a historical step forward in understanding our current society. Sheridan has explored the topic of psychopathy through his art, his blog and his youtube channel over a number of years. We are currently in the process of producing a documentary feature based on these dialogues and we want to involve you in the process. To do this material justice, we need ideas, video-editing skills and manhours. So we are crowdsourcing the production by sharing the material and the creative process as open source as we can.
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This is the first of the three dialogues we’ll be presenting. Thomas and Jakob hash out the state of the world over an hour and a half using Skype. They touch upon topics like: Florescent lighting, architecture, geometry, education, magic, sacred prostitution, Wall Street, mythology, pornography, Obama, intuition, Al Gore, secret societies and nursing homes to mention but a few. The slideshow attached to each clip contains notes on the conversation and inspirational links for your own further research about the topics discussed. We don’t have the time to subtitle the material ourselves and welcome volunteer contributions to this effect using universal subtitles or a similar program. See the full-length interview on youtube or pick any clip that might interest you from our chronological storyboard. If you are yourself a creator of alternative media you are welcome to use any of our material under creative commons.
Enter the full dialogue at this timecode.
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