This Needs Fixin'

Coming up with a title got that song stuck in my head, so now it can be in yours too.

You’re welcome.

Now is probably a good time for us all to take a long, hard look at our communities and inventory what functions the current State serves (and supports) in it.

Cause we may have to find other ways to perform those functions any day now, since most of the resources for these things route through the federal and state governments before it gets into our local communities

So take an inventory.

For example, the State provides systems for:

• currency: a symbolic means of exchanging labor and goods
• food: inspection and certification
• education: from kindergarten through university
• maintenance: of roads and other public spaces
• medicine: hospitals many other organizations
• records: ownership, births and deaths

(This list could go on and on, but I’ll stop with these.)

All of these local systems depend the federal government either directly to operate them or indirectly for resources.

And all of that could become … unreliable in the near future.

The lunatics currently rampaging through the federal government don’t seem particularly interested in, or even aware of, how dependent our society is on these systems and how dependent these systems currently are on the federal government.

Making them less dependent and more resilient would be a good thing anyway, but may very well become necessary in a pretty urgent way.

Start building parallel organizations now.

So that they’re ready, or at least started, before they’re necessary.

I’m going to start working on the currency issue first, since I have the servers and some programming experience (and can learn whatever else I need) to set up a method of exchanging socially-beneficial work as a currency.

I can also help other projects get started.

For example, do you want to get a bunch of folks with doctorate degrees together to start a school or university that can run without State funding? I have some ideas on how to structure that and I have servers that can run your scheduling, record-keeping, video-conferencing and whatever else systems while you recruit staff and students.

Look around, pick something and get started on it now.

There’s no telling how soon you’ll need it.

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