HoloWorld

Blueprint for a synergetic society

Welcome to HoloWorld!

HoloWorld is a hypothetical society that is scalable to any size, from a size of one family to the size of a whole planet.

It is a society built on certain principles. Principles that both support pervasive freedom of choice and mechanisms for civilized, synergetic, ecological interaction and cooperation.

HoloWorld aims to be a society that works for everybody.

HoloWorld is a developing model of a complex system with many interacting components. The principles at work within some of the different components of a society are described below. Notice that this is very much a work in progress, and parts will be adjusted along the way, and new pieces will be added.


Overview


Social Organization

Government
Democracy
Legal system
Ownership
Resources
Individuals
Communities
Children
Social Interaction
Religion
Sex
Drugs
Morals
Cultural Diversity
Race
Gender
Creativity
Culture
Meaning
A Multitude of Worlds
Exploration
Love


Infrastructure

Economy
Communication
Work
Business
Education
Energy
Housing
Agriculture
Food
Old Age
Health
Large-scale Construction
Ecology
Transportation
Science
Competition
Knowledge
Entertainment
Welfare
Defense
Security
Privacy


Philosophic Fundamentals

Holons
Holarchies
Domains
Emerging Orders
Memes
Maps & Territories
tribes, teamnets
Diversity/Synergy
Infinite Games


Community Building

coming up later ...

Getting from here to there


The focus in this particular model is on human relations, interaction and social order. It goes only very lightly over many principles and technologies and bodies of knowledge that might be drawn upon by communities and societies to implement these more physically and sustainably, such as permaculture principles, architecture, building materials, ecology, manufacturing principles, etc.

A central assumption here is that a society is built out of people and relations. That includes peoples' relations with each other, with other lifeforms, with the earth, with the universe, and with the metaphysics of existence itself.

The HoloWorld model takes a very large view. It does not so much propose specific approaches that a specific community or individual would use, as it provides a global framework within which those approaches might work.


Recommended Books

Aldous Huxley: Island
Daniel Quinn: "Ishmael"
Kevin Kelly: "Out of Control" - about
Buckminster Fuller: "Critical Path" - about
James P. Carse: "Finite and Infinite Games" - about
Jessica Lipnack and Jeffrey Stamps: "The Age of the Network"
James Redfield: "The Celestine Prophecy"
Christopher Alexander: "A Pattern Language"
Alfred Korzybski: "Science and Sanity" - about


The vision and model of HoloWorld is being written by Flemming Funch who thinks a lot about the future.