Thinking of the way we approach the world. Wondering how community plays into the way we try to look at the world. Let the different parts of your being come together as a representative for the family of the multitude, to be an advocate, a waypoint on the journey to empowerment, freedom, agency, a balance of forces between the communal and the personal, the transparency and the privacy of belief, thought, action and belonging.
Waypoints act as the addressing system, the naming, and the value judgements that accompany every name, or identity given. In a world of billions of people, and trillions of things — sensors, documents, machines, computational layers, cities, homes and living entities of every kind, how we set waypoints to guide us to the people and things we need in the world will be critical to the experience of life and belonging.
The information and resources that are available to us at each waypoint will help determine what people and things we get access to. The reputation dynamics, the ‘trust data’, the layer of meaning that overlays the information, is critical to discerning which people and things to use. What we trust is based on our value system, our acceptance of a collective belief system that shapes the perceived benefit we receive from acting in a certain way, with a certain set of people or things.
So if we trust somebody because they share the value system that climate action is important, and we trust a product we buy because it is manufactured in a way that takes climate action into account, that it is certified in a particular way as accounting for its externalities as part of the well-governed ecosystem of sustainable circular economy practices, validation and enforcement mechanisms, then that should be taken into account as part of our waypoints, the addressing system we have access to.
The power of belief systems is their ability to create shared waypoints, shared addressing systems that help to channel people together towards the more objectively and subjectively beneficial concentrations of people and things. Sharing waypoints, collective intelligence, allows individuals to act in concert, in resonance, with one another’s methods and means, saving time and resources in the search for the necessary transactions and interactions that will bring peace and prosperity to your experience.
Setting a string of waypoints together allows journeys to be taken from one trusted node to another, so that accessing certain areas can be premised upon particular criteria or demonstrations of trustworthiness, whether credentials, or the verified act of having performed a certain task, fulfilled the requirements of a particular agreement.
The collation of personalized waypoints based on private, personalized data trusts can form the basis of shared community understanding, free from the fear of surveillance and market-based manipulation currently purveyed by platform technology monopolies.