Dear Builders,
As you know we are now building The Pyramids of Humane Technology, and whereas in the old days that required powerful Faraohs to keep the project going - involving slavery and suffering and other bad things - nowadays we have modern technology, power tools to help us. Humane tools that are set to good work and work good.
So having those we donât need leadership. I know there are great leaders in the world, but there is also grave danger in leadership as most would-be leaders actually fail. That wouldnât be bad in itself, as failure is good - a learning experience and we all need to learn. However with leadership comes power to humans and that is hard to cope with for our species, as we all know. We donât handle it so well. Power might devour you, make you too big. The good powers are really only those which exist in nature, in the spirit and the mind, and those that we bestow on technology of the humane kind. On our tools of the trade.
I am not saying that humans should be powerless, of course, not at all. In fact, we should become empowered, and to achieve that we should do less. We should become smaller.
Having come to that insight I will take it to heart immediately. Hereby Iâll demote myself to a smaller position.
Iâve called myself Community Lead before and you accepted that, but it is inappropriate for me. You see, I donât really want to lead. Instead I just want to participate and cooperate with all of you and make some new friends, have some fun as we go along. Adopting this title onto myself was a bit of a vain act, and vanity is no small thing. And as I told you March 6: I intend to be smaller. Because Small is Huge.
This keeps things simple in life, and I value simple. I could KISS the philosopher who first preached that stance, if she or he were still alive
Of course we have much to do still, like diagramming the pyramid designs and organize ourselves a bit more. Requirements to reach our modest Vision. But weâll do that organically, no leaders involved, as organics are in our DNA and it works like magic. In fact, it exists in all living organisms, it comes natural. So organics should be simple too. And funnily, even though DNA it is the most complex helix we know of, it is also really, really small. It is tiny even, and yet it works wonders. It just works, leaders unneeded. And without bossy types who order us around, there in this community there will be Huge fun to be had, I gather, and we will be having lots of it probably
So we go leaderless from now on.
To not be titleless myself - unlabeled - I have brainstormed a bit on a new title to carry. One that better fits my stature in life. A decent and honest title, which I can easily drop as I grow smaller in life. So here it is:
Arnold: Community Team, Board Member
The Humane Tech Community now has its own âboard roomâ. Containing those people that are in âofficialâ position actively involved in the day-to-day tasks and chores that come with community building, and who elicit, elaborate and communicate exciting new strategies and community initiaves to you, fine builders and humane tech activists.
And you can be a board member too. It is part of the âfun and rewardingâ principle of this community. For now you can just state your interest to any member in the Community Team (indicated by the label next to the user name), but we are planning to formalize the selection procedure, when the community reorganization is complete.
To all of you: Have a nice work!