This blog has remained mostly dormant for the better part of two years while I explored other avenues for leveraging civilitic thinking into the world. And yet, not one of those efforts has created the level of interest that the subject warrants. Even though there is widespread contempt for the economic status quo, it seems that the promise of civilitic society is too divergent for any but the most devoted change-makers to investigate at the level needed to successfully master the material.
Of course, economists will doubtless point to the lack of widespread public interest as evidence that civilitics is flawed in some way. It is something of a self-fulfilling prophesy. One economist with whom I had the opportunity to speak about civilitics, pointed out that he was significantly more valuable to society than most other people, as evidenced by his substantial income. And yet, following his reasoning that income is commensurate with contribution, we should conclude that the contributions of people who receive no financial compensation for their labor, are exactly worthless. However, I do not recommend explaining to stay-at-home care-givers that their daily contribution has no value.
IviCivi: A civilitic social app
It is worth mentioning that another, more progressive, economist observed, “I have never seen anything like this before; it solves the [economic] problem of one person one vote.”
So, rather than boxing with the shadows of phantom economists, let me simply affirm that I remain convinced the implementation of a civilitic society (in some form) remains the singular greatest hope for re-civilizing humans and curbing the problems they continue to experience. Upon grasping the breadth of this principle, it becomes abundantly clear that the greatest problems we face are simply because of the illusory need to trade for everything, and the insecurity that accompanies the illusion.
This brings us to December 2015. Many discussions with influential community leaders, educators, social activists, and others, have yielded no spread of civilitic thinking or any motion toward a working civilitic system. My own effort to “walk the talk” and forego compensation in exchange for work has failed to set any notable example for others except, to demonstrate the strong hold exchange economics has upon the world by casting my family into near poverty.
In the past year, I have created and transferred ownership of the civilitic effort to a new entity: the International Civilitics Institute (ICI). The http://civilitics.org website has morphed from being a simple blog, to representing the public face of the ICI, although it continues to serve both purposes. In addition, the ICI has taken on The IviCivi Project, which is a public campaign to create a civilitic infrastructure as soon as resources can be marshalled. So now the International Civilitics Institute will be able to move forward more deliberately to achieve the goal of a civilitic world.
