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Noi siamo qui.
Noi ci stiamo svegliando adesso dal torpore di tempi passati, per sognare un sogno più grande.
Noi siamo amici e uguali, noi siamo diversi ed unici, e rimaniamo uniti verso qualcosa di più grande delle nostre differenze.
Noi crediamo nella libertà e nella cooperazione, l'abbondanza e l'armonia.
Noi siamo una cultura emergente, una renaissance dell'essenza dell'umanità.
Noi troviamo il modo nostro di guidarci, e noi discerniamo la nostra verità.
Noi andiamo in molte direzioni, eppure ci rifiutiamo di disperderci.
Noi abbiamo molti nomi, noi parliamo molte lingue.
Noi siamo locali, noi siamo globali.
Noi siamo in tutte le regioni del mondo, noi siamo dappertutto nell'aria.
Noi siamo l'universo che riconosce se stesso, noi siamo l'onda dell'evoluzione.
Noi siamo negl’occhi di ogni bambino, noi affrontiamo l’ignoto con un senzo di meraviglia ed entusiasmo.
Noi siamo messaggeri dal futuro, viventi nel presente.
Noi veniamo dal silenzio, ed esprimiamo la verità nostra.
Noi non possiamo essere forzati a tacere, perchè la nostra voce è interna ad ognuno di noi.
Noi non abbiamo nemici, nessuna frontiera può ostacolarci.
Noi rispettiamo i cicli e l’espressioni della natura, perchè noi siamo la natura.
Noi non giochiamo per vincere, noi giochiamo per vivere ed imparare.
Noi siamo stimolati dall'ispirazione, l’amore e l’integrità.
Noi esploriamo, noi scopriamo, noi sentiamo, e noi ridiamo.
Noi stiamo costruendo un mondo che funziona per tutti.
Noi intendiamo vivere le nostre vite al loro massimo potenziale.
Noi siamo indipendenti, autosufficienti e responsabili.
Noi comunichiamo reciprocamente in pace, con compassione e rispetto, noi ci uniamo nella comunità.
Noi celebriamo la totalità che è dentro ed attorno a tutti noi.
Noi danziamo al ritmo della creazione.
Noi intrecciamo i fili dei tempi nuovi.
Noi siamo la nuova civilizzazione.
Thank you, Oscar for this new and improved Italian translation of We are the New Civilization.
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| Friday, February 16, 2007 | |
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 One of the main sites on my server is the New Civilization Network. NCN is a community site that has existed since 1995. The site itself is sorely in need of a modernisation, and the group dynamics amongst members doesn't always work great. But, nevertheless, in the longterm view, this has been a very important site, and something still works, the site still has a reason to be, and it serves as home for quite a number of people.
In principle I'm very happy to support the existence of a network like that in terms of server space, and not just because I created it. But I sometimes forget that there are costs involved in running a server, and I tend to not get around to asking for contributions, even when they are needed, and when people wouldn't mind giving them.
So, this is basically a reminder that donations for server costs are very welcome. For NCN members, there's a link on the start page in the member area. For others, PayPal donations to ffunch -at- worldtrans.org are always welcome.
Server costs for this one server are around $100 per month. There are other non-profit activities on the same server. There isn't really much else. You'll find sites such as the International Society for the Systems Sciences, Art of Living, Spirit Rising, OneWorld Flag, We need a dream, Inside Universe, and others. Some of them pay me occasionally for providing server space, but it is basically a gift economy. Meaning, I don't really ask for anything, but I welcome donations.
As to NCN, it doesn't really have an enormous amount of traffic. But I think a lot of people would be unhappy if it wasn't there. Including, of course, the couple of hundred people who have blogs here, but also other members, and many visitors. So, feel free to contribute something, if you feel like it, and you're able to. A few people do on a regular basic, but very few, like less than 5.
And, again, I hate asking for donations, and I probably wouldn't do so if a few people hadn't poked at me a little bit.
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This is the "We are the New Civilization" manifesto translated into Turkish. Thanks Zeyneb!Biz buradayız.
Biz şimdi, daha büyük bir rüyayı düşlemek için, geçmişimizden uyanıyoruz.
Bizler arkadaşız ve eşitiz, bizler çok çeşitliyiz ve özgünüz, ve bizler aramızdaki farklılıklardan çok daha büyük bir şey için birleşiyoruz.
Biz özgürlüğe ve işbirliğine, bolluğa ve uyuma inanıyoruz.
Biz yeni ortaya çıkmakta olan bir kültürüz, insanlığın özünün yeniden doğuşuyuz.
Biz kendi kendimizin rehberleriyiz ve kendi doğrularımızı kendimiz saptarız.
Biz çeşitli yönlerde ilerleriz ama yine de ayrılmayı kabul etmeyiz.
Bizim birçok adımız var, biz birçok dilde konuşuruz.
Biz yöreseliz, biz küreseliz.
Biz dünyanın her bölgesindeyiz, biz havanın her zerresindeyiz.
Biz kendinin farkında olan evreniz, biz evrim dalgasıyız.
Biz her çocuğun gözlerindeyiz, bilinmeyeni hayret ve heyecanla karşılarız.
Biz bugünde yaşayan, geleceğin habercileriyiz.
Biz sessizlikten geliriz ve biz kendi doğrumuzu dile getiririz.
Susturulamayız çünkü bizim sesimiz herkesin içindedir.
Bizim düşmanlarımız yoktur, sınırlar bizleri ayırmaz.
Biz doğanın döngülerine ve kendini ifade edişine saygı duyarız, çünkü biz doğayız
Biz kazanmak için oynamayız, biz yaşamak ve öğrenmek için oynarız.
Bizim davranışlarımızın özünde ilham, sevgi ve kendine karşı dürüst olmak vardır.
Biz araştırırız, biz keşfederiz, biz hissederiz ve biz güleriz.
Biz herkese uyan bir dünya inşa ediyoruz.
Biz hayatı tüm potansiyelimizi ortaya koyacak şekilde yaşamaya gayret ediyoruz.
Biz bağımsızız, kendine yeteniz ve sorumluluk sahibiyiz.
Biz birbirimizle barış içinde, anlayış ve saygı temelinde ilişki kurarız, bir toplum olarak bütünleşiriz.
Biz hepimizin içinde olan ve hepimizi çevreleyen bütünlüğü kutlarız.
Biz yaratılışın ritmi ile dans ederiz.
Biz yeni zamanın ipliklerini dokuruz.
Biz yeni uygarlığız That brings us to, let me see, 16 languages. But there are many more, so anybody who feels like translating it into some of the missing languages would be very welcome.
I also notice that the characters in some of them have gotten messed up a bit along the way. Nowadays one can show all character sets with UTF-8, but originally it was done in different ways and was a lot more dicey. So, if somebody who speaks one of these languages can help me out a bit and catch things that are off, that would be great. Like Croatian. Some of the characters have gotten garbled, and I unfortunately no longer remember who provided it originally. And the Hebrew version is a graphic, because of the difficulty in the past in making that visible. If somebody could type that up a regular Hebrew text, that would be nice.
Oh, and I just coincidentally noticed that the site Humanitas International has "We are the New Civilization" in all the translations scrolling by on their home page. Cool.
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 Today is the 10 year birthday of the New Civilization Network.
I suppose it is an impressive longevity for an online community. But I don't think I would have been surprised back then to know it would last more than 10 years. I would maybe be surprised to learn that it didn't really turn out as I imagined it. Then again, few things do. Groups of people tend to take on a life of their own.
Anyway, I hadn't really thought it through very much. I had identified some principles which I thought were key to growing a new kind of civilization from the bottom up. Oh, and they're still good. But I was probably greatly underestimating the amount of organization and effort that would be needed to do such a crazy and ambitious thing. And I failed to release a magical viral catalyst that would make it all just sort of organize itself.
Since sometime in 1994 I was running a mailing list called "Whole Systems", which was about systems thinking from a big picture perspective. It was a very active and stimulating place. But mostly people were talking and sharing ideas. So, I wanted to build something out of it that was more action oriented. So, all I really did was that a posted a message stating that intent. Which apparently hit a nerve, and it spread around quickly. So, within the week 100 people had joined. What exactly it was they had joined wasn't clear, but they were ready and inspired.
My vision was along the lines of a network of teams working on different important problems that needed to be solved to build a better civilization. A teamnet of self-selected teams who shared information and results. I imagined it as something that would self-organize and transform itself along the way. Nothing terribly wrong with that, other than that it isn't easy to start off like that. One can't just decree that that's how it is, even though I tried.
A sizable number of smart and inspiring people were attracted to that very loose vision, though. A veritable who's who of activists, explorers, visionaries, futurists, artists, inventors, leaders of organizations, etc. Just like I hoped for. That didn't mean that they knew how to work together, though. I had from an early point on asked people to fill in a myers-briggs type profile when they joined. Which showed that about half of these folks were visionary idealists. As compared with something like 3 percent in the general population. Which made it all very inspiring, but not particularly coherent or practical. Particularly when it turned out that many idealists really don't get along with each other, as they might have very strong, but conflicting, ideas about what needs to be done.
A vision of a new civilization is maybe inspiring, but vague. One can put all sorts of things under that heading. And I thought that was a feature rather than a flaw. I still do, in many ways. But it also means that people show up, and then find that they don't at all agree on the details. In principle that shouldn't matter, as the idea was that those folks who shared a specific aim or a specific approach would simply get together and do it that way, and if some other group wanted to do it differently, they'd just go do that. No need for everybody to agree on everything. A civilization isn't built out of uniform agreement on what it is. It is a collage of a diversity of currents that somehow get woven together.
But we're so used to living inside of organizations that share a coherent set of norms. So it turned out that some sorts of people simply wouldn't coexist with others. Like, the scientists just had no patience for having their project mentioned in the same listing as somebody working on astrology or healing or something. So, people would leave, or get into fights.
And, now, the idea was that these various teams would just pick their own mission and go to work. But most people didn't quite know how to do that, or they were sort of waiting for the master plan to be formed. And since I was the guy who started the thing, they were increasingly looking to me to come up with the plan. I was quite caught by surprise by that, as it hadn't at all been my intention to be some kind of leader who was calling the shots. On the contrary, I preferred being relatively invisible, and giving focus to the good things others were doing. That's of course all half impossible. How does one lead a new activity while being invisible. How does one organize a self-organizing network that will change the world. How does one best service a leaderless group that doesn't yet know what exactly to do.
The most vibrant period of time was probably while I regularly sent out various regular newsletters to the whole membership, with content aggregated from what people sent to me. Various news items, project updates, visions, and more. And each month I sent out the list of new members and what they said about themselves in their profiles. Which was always inspiring and illuminating, to see the diversity of activities and perspectives people were engaged in. All of it sort of created a shared atmosphere of constructive progress and sharing and networking. It also tied into various face-to-face activities, as people would meet, arrange events, etc. Like, the series of New Civilization Salons I organized in L.A. for years were consistently a great success. Typically around 100 folks at a time, and a combination of a networking event where everybody introduces themselves, and a party, with show and tell, performances, poetry, drumming, etc.
Oh, and a number of great projects almost happened along the way. Various ventures, plans, projects, activities. For a while it looked like some major funding would be available, and a group started constructing a framework for a New Civilization Foundation that would implement many projects.
Anyway, gradually, from a mixture of lack of tangible results, and bickering about details, most of the more prominent members that really were the target group, the ones passionately engaged in groundbreaking projects, drifted away along the way, as they didn't really have time for arguing about anything, as they had things to do.
Again, lots of stories to tell along the way, and various transformations, but still a continous flow of thousands of new members. Until, today, well, NCN is a website, with an assortment of community features. Weblogs, workgroups, chat rooms, etc. And it is a nice group of people who can be found there on a daily basis. Mostly to communicate and pursue their various interests, and to explore some of the dynamics that happen between people. It isn't to any great extent any network of teams building a new civilization. It is maybe a microcosm of some of the issues involved in building one. Which is all probably good, and I can't really complain about what it is. I sort of have to respect the path it takes. Which of course has a good deal to do with what I put on the website, and how I laid out the interactive features in the member area.
I have sort of shifted around between different views of it. Whether I should be happy or disappointed. Whether I should do it differently, whether I should just leave it alone. Whether I should take a lead again in trying to make it what it originally was meant to be. Or whether I should better support what it is today.
I don't really know. But, regardless, happy birthday, NCN! The future is still ahead of us. |
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