Are you huge enough for this meshwork?
 Aleksandar Malečić |
Guess how many people will know my name if this meshwork succeeds. It must succeed. |
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If someone's hugeness is measured by profit and political influence, then it is a problem because the most of it is standing on the ground of unsustainable behaviour. All those giants who influence our lives will try to either keep the status quo or move upwards. |
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Aleksandar Malečić |
Does it make sense that, as unresolved conflicts and environmental problems increase, only careless and not so intelligent people will be willing to be in charge? People aren't huge or small. Even their positions won't be huge and small anymore. We are boiling in the same soup. Any reasonable person would hesitate to join and participate in this meshwork or anything similar. You can't hide inside our herd anymore. Everyone willing to listen can hear your voice and opinion. Don't blame politicians. They will never leave the closed circle of popularity and political correctness. |
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Aleksandar Malečić |
While thinking about sustainability, people should take things as easy as possible and still try to make a difference. To do things that matter, they should be done step by step. If you can't stand the burden, don't think about it too much. Do more and think about it as a pressure less. Or perhaps you prefer less intelligent people to do the work? |
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Aleksandar Malečić |
Everything "too big to fail" may and probably will fail soon. Local communities will need to figure out how to deal with climate change and peak oil. When things too big to fail start falling, don't let them fall on your head. |
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Aleksandar Malečić |
Perhaps some things "too big to fail" are actually too big to survive. You are your best advisor. I've read a lot of articles and books about networks, creativity, globalization and other things and now I behave here according to my understanding of that literature. People should be informed from many divergent sources and come to their (adaptable to ever-changing circumstances) conclusions about the world and their place inside of it. |
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Aleksandar Malečić |
Catch-22: The way to make this meshwork relevant is to have many active members. The way to bring many active members is to have significant results. Only significant results (or any similar social network) would make this meshwork attractive and relevant. More active members mean more chances to succeed. Out of thousand active members interested in renewable energy, environmentalism and sustainability, a few would sooner or later be capable to share some interesting case stories. I am doing my best. But, I am one person with one head. |
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Aleksandar Malečić |
This post could be put in many discussion topics within this meshwork, but I think this is the best choice. The new economy is an economy of networks. The term was more frequently used about ten years ago than it is today. The concept behind it was that the internet will somehow turn upside-down business as usual. The dilemma whether the new economy has ever existed or not isn’t about this phenomenon, but also the way people look at it. If you observe the new economy from the point of view of old economy, all you will see are tech balloons, merciless competition (gold rush) and profitability or a lack of it. Networks are difficult to put into balloons, numbers and statistics, but our disability to recognize them doesn’t make them nonexistent. Online social networks have a potential to become parallel societies. Let’s imagine for a moment that we live in a society without police and suddenly someone has an idea of an organization which might bring law and order. Does that person deserve to have his/her private police? Actually, this is the way absolute monarchies were emerging in the past, but we seemingly developed in the meantime. Does Mark Zuckerberg (the creator of Facebook, Myspace’s bigger and less intelligent cousin) deserve to be a modern king of the world just because of one interesting idea? We’ll need many ideas capable to transform the society, economy and infrastructure, but it doesn’t mean that each person with an original idea deserves royal status. Barriers for good ideas should be as low as possible (“What do you think?” more important than “Who you are?”) and people whose ideas are being implemented should be more humble. A social network (meshwork) like, let’s say, this one, could lower barriers between people and ideas (interactions and degrees of separation) and hopefully make people more humble (especially because creativity would be more processes and interactions (adequate to the complexity of modern challenges) than sudden moments of inspiration coming to a single person (probably less intelligent than thousands or millions of other people encouraged to collaborate)). The transition to sustainability, green technologies, interactive communities and renewable energy is more mental than technological challenge. There is a single lifetime left for trying or not trying. No one is huge in comparison to you. Someone might have a good idea or two, but we need more. Much more. |
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