[OccupyComms] [OccupyLondon] [#globalNOISE] English Summary of book on horizontality which need translations.

[Tina Louise]

Excellent and enticing reading; so hope a translation can be sourced. Many
thanks to the author and those that are able to help x

from mobile phone
On Oct 24, 2013 11:23 PM, "Christopher Moylan" <cmoylanc at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm an English professor, know some French, would be happy to help out.
> Maybe a group of volunteers could take pieces of the text and work on them
> individually. Don't know whether the intention is to distribute the
> translation on the web or also to send it out in hard copy...
> Chris
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 2:20 AM, <marknbarrett at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>> Thank you for sharing this Rami - hopefully some translations will be
>> forthcoming :)
>> Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone
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>> *From: * Rami Brahem <rami.brahem at gmail.com>
>> *Date: *Mon, 07 Oct 2013 14:56:17 +0100
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>> *Subject: *English Summary of book on horizontality which need
>> translations.
>>
>> English Summary of the book « Horizontal Hope » which present
>> horizontality & what's linked to it, caracteristics & an alternative based
>> on all that is presented.
>>
>> The book is actually already accessible in french at the adress :
>> http://horizontality.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/lEspoir-Horizontal-v0.9-Rami-Brahem.pdf
>>
>> It was recommended to me to make a brief summary in english of the book
>> « horizontal hope » which is already accessible from yersterday 4am in
>> french langage.
>>
>> This summary was write also as a call for anyone who'd like to diffuse &
>> help to get it translated in english.
>>
>> First of all, sorry about my english, some terms are quite complicated to
>> translate & i do not have the capacities to translate them correctly.
>> Summary :
>>
>> « Horizontal hope » explains at start that we entered in a new era. The
>> communication is a lever that change the way we organize, but unfortunatly
>> it generaly brings the people to thinks a simple direct democracy on the
>> internet while it's all our vision of democracy that seems to need to
>> change.
>>
>> It explains why we decided to work in pyramidal forms, because of the
>> need of centralizing the informations to be able to take decisions for a
>> large amount of people, but that in a little group, it's not the best way
>> to organize & ask if today, as we can all share the information, the
>> pyramidal system still have a sense. The prelude speaks about collective
>> intelligence & different forms of leaderships & introduce the plan of the
>> book.
>>
>> Then, i present the current system, as to make a good proposal it seems
>> important to share the problematics that pushed to make that proposal.
>>
>>  *So begins the part 1 about the problematics*
>>
>> As a summary, the first part explains that the current capitalist system
>> naturally concentrate the money in less & less hands as Marx & lot of
>> people explained. The crisis isn't an economic crisis in the sense that the
>> world is getting richer thought time, it's a crisis of repartition of
>> money. But even more, it is a crisis of democracy as the finance tooked
>> control over the politics & blocks us from regulating the economy. (Keynes
>> against Friedmann)
>>
>> As the croissance of our countries don't benefit to the populations
>> (we're getting more poor while the country is getting richer), it create a
>> negative economic circle which is really bad for economy.
>>
>> Lot of references are given, mainly stilglitz as economist who explained
>> all of that.
>>
>> Then we enter in more specifics stuffs as how the capital is organized
>> (think tanks, interpenetration of oligopols, finance & politic...). Then i
>> present the medias (mainly by presenting chomsky), neocolonialism (& FMI,
>> mondial bank,..), geopolitic with Alba & Brics, the current state of
>> Africa, Arab springs, islam, sionism, …
>>
>> After it speaks about the « theories of complot » explaining that it is
>> dangerous to resume the world on jews or maconnists & also wrong, if not
>> racist. There is a lot of « complot », not one, & i explain how the system
>> really works (mainly based of several important books with Geuens as main
>> reference & his extraordinary book). I take the benefit of that part to
>> speak more about Bilderberg & « occult societies » while explaining
>> who/what/why & warnings behind simplistic visions when speaking on these
>> elements.
>>
>> Then it enter into the main point : the rules of the game.
>>
>> I explain about constitutions, how we're organied, the problems there,
>> how a constitution works basically in a democratic system & how we're not
>> even respecting that, & why everyone should know a share all of this.
>>
>>  *Then begins the Part 2 about all the fundamentals on horizontality.*
>> As a start it begins to explain about what is synergy, the parameters of
>> synergy &  precise collective intelligence concept & derivates. It speaks
>> about attention & the different types of « listening » as Otto Scharmer
>> developped them & the differencies between debates & constructive
>> discussions (having a common intention behing a key)
>>
>> Then it enter into History of « horizontality » with the original tribes
>> even on the prehistoric era, the african palabre & their assemblies, the
>> fact that consent of all is the decision process that is the most speard
>> among humanity though time all over the world & several exemples.
>>
>> It present deliberative democracy which seems to be the closest thing
>> that is close to an « horizontality system » which as ever proposed to
>> humanity. & From our best intellectuals of 70's & 80's & main critics about
>> it.
>>
>> From there, it jump into making a clear the difference between the idea
>> of consensus & the idea of consent (which have several different names), &
>> aswell all the debates among the greecs on the specific point of how to
>> take decisions all togethers & all that went after that (condorcet,
>> schulze, etc).
>>
>> After explaining more clearly the difference, it jumps to sociocracy &
>> collaborative management forms & present first concret method of decisions
>> making process with the consent of all. It takes the caracteristics of
>> these « collaborative management » methods & compared them to « original
>> collective intelligence » & U theory.
>>
>> Then we enter into the open-source world & discover how close all of this
>> is, & what are the links. After seeing how it works, we enter in ne form of
>> social movements as Indignados & Occupy.
>>
>> After explaining them & presenting main critics that were sent to us, it
>> begins to speak more about assemblies.
>>
>> Then we enter into concret assemblies of ancestral african palabre & then
>> comparing them with indignados assemblies.
>>
>> It speaks a bit about world cafe, open forums, participative workshops
>> aswell... Then on collaborative tools.
>>
>>  *Part 3 : horizontal ideal*
>>
>> After this workaround horiontality emerged clear common caracteristics.
>> Going back to the « essentials », i try to propose a definition for
>> horizontalism & to define 5 caracteristics :
>>
>> - The seek of the consent of all
>>
>> - The seek of best holoptism
>>
>> - An Evolutive system
>>
>> - Living Architecture
>>
>> - Decentralization.
>>
>> Indeed, everything explained more in detail. Then we enter more concretly
>> on how these caracteristics wouuld be applyed for a national or world
>> system.
>>
>> For that, it was needed to create a new way of define organisations, not
>> simply with groups, but more with mathematic ensemblies, as each ensembly
>> can have specific rules, people can be in several ensemblies, etc.
>>
>> After presenting all of this & some systemic mecanisms that are
>> important, we enter more deeply about on it works, how to define, etc.
>>
>> After the global organisation is more clear, we enter into the mecanisms
>> of the decisions that would really seek consent of all at a large scale.
>> The mecanisms being differents that the methods : all the methods enter
>> into these mecanisms but there is a lot of different methods.
>>
>> These mecanisms help to imagine several ways to take a decision at a
>> large scale, even without using internet at all (depending the time you
>> have to take a decision).
>>
>> It takes the exemple of writing a constituion for a state & how to do
>> it...
>>
>> Then the subject goes to visions on property (Marx against proudhon),
>> differences between property & possession, & variables into the property
>> concept with several exemples & the need to define at least these variables
>> (natural ressources, the fact that your right stops when the right of the
>> other begins & the problem of unlimited private property, etc).
>>
>> After that, it explain the mecanisms of politic individualisms & the
>> problem of Marx saying we're naturally exploiting the others as soon as we
>> can, without trying to understand the mecanisms that makes the humans being
>> individualists or not.
>> We're in a system where we cannot control the benefits of the community &
>> it push us to politic indidividualism. The book ask if, in a system where
>> we control the gains of the collectivity, wouldn't we naturally enter into
>> a « gift economy » ?
>>
>> Then i conclude the Part 3 after some stuff.
>> Part 4 present all the concrete methods.
>>
>> This part is more for people that have no idea about how to organize
>> horizontaly, methods are just proposal & i keep saying that anyway, nothing
>> is marked into stone & that the group decide himself how to organize anyway
>> & especially in an evolutive system. It's more for people that have no
>> idea, to have a start to begin with & then improve these methods.
>>
>> Especially, explaning methods is even harder cause each group is
>> different, each organization is different, & the methods have to adapt to
>> the organisation & the people & certainly not the opposite...
>>
>> But it present how to work & act horizontaly, as individuals, as groups,
>> & as organisation.
>>
>> It also present a proposal for taking a decision in assembly which is
>> inspired by indignados & occupy methods + African Palabre methods.
>>
>> Then it speak about the constitution of an horizontal system that could
>> regroup all assemblies & compagneros all over the world.
>>
>> Then we enter into the Part 5 : strategies.
>>
>> It's a little part compared to the others, which remind the basics of
>> good strategies & also the tools of horizontalists.
>>
>> Then it « conclude » explaining that this book gives an alternative that
>> is clear & complete for the world, & aswell the how to making it real in
>> our struggles & that everything else is in your hands (improving it,
>> diffusing it, etc).
>>
>> Then there is a text in slam (street poetry).
>>
>>
>>  Summary done ! I also tryed to translate the table of content of the
>> book
>>
>> *Table of Content*
>>
>> A new era : Describe why horizontality is emerging now in the world &
>> differences between a leadership that is imposed & the one that we consent
>> on.
>>
>> *Part 1 : « Etat des lieux » : Describe the current system & his
>> problematics*
>>
>> The capital : Capitalist system concentrate the money, & we're not
>> regulating it anymore (Keynes/Friedman)
>>
>> The Medias : The current media system
>>
>> Neocolonialism : How North currently exploit South
>>
>> Geopolitic : the 3 major blocks in the world (ALBA, BRICS,
>> « Imperialists ») & the state of Africa
>>
>> Arab Spring ? The differences between Tunisia/Egypt & Syria/Lybia & what
>> really happened in Tunisia
>>
>> Islamism & muslims : to understand how islam is used as a neocolonialist
>> tool
>>
>> Sionism & jews : Summary of the story of Israel & Palestine
>>
>> The theory of complot : about « complotists theories », there is no one
>> complot, there is a lot of them. How the wolrd really works thought
>> international think-tanks as Bilderbergs & how we deform reality & how it
>> deserves us.
>>
>> Rules of the game : how the decisions are taken & where the problem
>> really belongs
>>
>> The constitutions : how they work, whar are the current problems in most
>> of constitutions
>>
>> Conclusions
>>
>> *Part 2 : Horizontality : theoric fundamentals*
>>
>> About synergy : Collective intelligence, attention, U theory. The « me »
>> & the « us ». Differencies between debates & constructive discussions
>>
>> Revisited History : Horizontality though history, African Palabre,
>> deliberative democracy, consent & consensus.
>>
>> Sociocracy & collaborative managements : how they work, main
>> caracteristics
>>
>> Open source world : The model & it's caracteristics
>>
>> New forms of social movements : how they work & caracteristics
>>
>> Assemblies
>>
>> African Palabre assembly
>>
>> Open popular assemblies
>>
>> World Cafe & Open Forums
>>
>> Participative workshops
>>
>> Other case of assemblies
>>
>> Caracteristics in common.
>>
>> Collaborative tools
>>
>>
>>  *Part 3 : The horizontal ideal*
>>
>> The « Essentials »
>>
>> A definition
>>
>> The 5 caracteristics of horiontality
>>
>> The theory of organisational ensemblies
>>
>> Space + time = evolution
>>
>> The horizontal ensembly
>>
>> Groups & commissions
>>
>> Living organisation
>>
>> Defining an ensembly
>>
>> About reason to be
>>
>> About general functionnement
>>
>> About new ways to etablish common strategic visions
>>
>> Interactions between ensemblies
>>
>> About decisions making process
>>
>> The mecanisms of takins a decision with the consent of all (different
>> from the methods!)
>>
>> About complex decisions : the parameters, how to decide with a lot of
>> people while respecting the caracteristics
>>
>> Complex systems : pyramidal system & horizontal system togethers
>>
>> Private property, repartition of money & individualism
>>
>> Differencies between property & possessions
>>
>> The variables in the propriety concept
>>
>> About the fruits of work
>>
>> « A different vision of the problem » : speaks about the reasons of
>> politic individualism & how to naturally eradicate it
>>
>> Conclusions
>>
>>
>>  *Part 4 : The methods to work horizontaly*
>>
>> Individually
>>
>> As a group
>>
>> Identifing the moment & the turn of speak
>>
>> Roles to have a reunion
>>
>> Managing a reunion
>>
>> Decision making process
>>
>> Execution
>>
>> The governance meeting
>>
>> One word about redacting documents togethers
>>
>> About Assemblies
>>
>> Adaptating of the purpose of the assembly & amount of people
>>
>> Process of getting consent in mass-assemblies
>>
>> About visual signs
>>
>> Recommanded process
>>
>> Particular cases of decisions
>>
>> The organisation
>>
>> Constitution & reglementations
>>
>> Basic method for general gunctionnement of horizontal system
>>
>> Consent of all – holoptism – evolutive – decentralized -living
>> architecture.
>>
>>  *Part 5: Strategies*
>>
>> About struggles in our « democracies »
>>
>> Basic principles of strategies
>>
>> Weaknesses o pyramidal system & strenght of horiontal system
>>
>> Exemples of strategies for national movements
>>
>>  *Recapitulative & next*
>>
>> Contact, ressources, links..
>>
>> Slam-clusion
>>
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