Storyliving As A Service

Democratizing Reality Through Omnicentralized Narrative, White Paper Part I

Radical Bretminster Fullofit

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Tansegrity

Jun 09, 2024

Introduction

Throughout human history, our species has been defined by the stories we share and the myths we co-create to make sense of the world around us. These narratives shape our identities, cultures, and the very fabric of our shared reality. However, the power to influence and control these narratives has traditionally been centralized - held tightly by dominant religions, ideologies, power structures, and the zero-sum architects of mainstream agendas through institutional media and communications.

This centralized control over our stories and symbols has had a profound impact on molding human consciousness and dictating which voices and perspectives rise to prominence. As the famous mythologist Joseph Campbell astutely observed, "It has always been the prime function of mythology and rite to supply the symbols that carry the human spirit forward, in counteraction to those that tend to tie it back." Our myths and narratives possess an immense power to either liberate or constrain human potential. It may be even more accurate to say that our myths and narratives possess the most ubiquitous and fundamental power in Reality, holding the key to our survival and therefore our thriving as a species.

The evolution of decentralized technologies promises to upend this centralized control over our collective story. This transformative progression began with Bitcoin, which revolutionized finance by introducing a decentralized digital currency operating independently of central banks or governing authorities. The rise of Ethereum and smart contracts furthered this democratization by decentralizing governance and decision-making processes.

Now, Storyliving As A Service represents the next revolutionary frontier - the democratization of narrative and perception itself. Powered by innovative organizations like Symphonics, Coasys, Holochain, Project Liminality and many others, synergized with the vision of Togetherland and Fractal Impact Entertainment, Storyliving aspires to empower individuals to reclaim authorship over their personal stories, mythologies, and perceptions. In doing so, it catalyzes a collective re-imagining of our shared human narrative.

This radical paradigm shift embodies the transition from centralization through decentralization to the zenith of omnicentralization - a vital evolutionary step for humankind and development. Omnicentralization transcends the polarizing dichotomy between centralization (singular authority) and decentralization (distributed nodes of authority). Instead, it envisions a harmonious unity where each individual is recognized as a unique source of creative authority, intimately interwoven with the greater whole.

By uplifting the authenticity of each personal narrative while fostering harmonious co-creation, an omnicentralized system allows for the flourishing of our collective human potential. It exemplifies a both/and paradigm - one where unity and diversity are not opposing forces, but engaged in a sacred dance of individual expression catalyzing shared evolution.

The implications of democratizing narrative control through an omnicentralized approach are truly revolutionary. For it strikes at the core of how we shape reality itself. As Campbell recognized, our myths and symbols possess immense power to either imprison or liberate the human spirit. By reclaiming this power, Storyliving seeds the soil for an emergent mythology that reflects our highest ideals - fostering mutual understanding, transcending regressive dogma, and uplifting the human experience.

This aligns with the sentiments expressed by media theorist Marshall McLuhan, who declared "Whoever controls the media, controls the mind." For too long, centralized powers have wielded this control as a tool of manipulation and oppression. Storyliving inverts this paradigm, placing the authorship of our collective mindscape into the hands of the people themselves.

Storyliving's radical vision also aligns with and grafts upon the rootstock philosophy of Buckminster Fuller, who implored humanity to become "architects of the future, not its victims." It resonates with Fuller's concept of "Livingry" - the prioritization of technologies and practices that enhance quality of life over those designed for destruction and oppression.

Through Storyliving (and hence Storylivingry), individuals are empowered to embody their most authentic selves, giving voice to their personal mythologies as an act of sacred self-expression and true co-creation. In this way, the sharing of our stories becomes a form of gift, service, and activism - sowing the seeds for a more compassionate, equitable world that uplifts ALL of humanity.

By democratizing narrative, Storyliving sparks a "civil rights movement for the soul" (coined by author of the Conversations with God Series, Neale Donald Walsch) - liberating our shared human potential from the constraints imposed by centralized gatekeepers and outdated power structures. It is an invitation to participate in seamless world-building through our stories, transcending the limitations of the past to manifest a reality that, as Bucky Fuller evoked, ‘works for 100% of humanity, in the shortest possible time, through spontaneous cooperation, without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone.’

This paradigm is particularly timely in our current era where new media technologies have paradoxically enabled both increased centralized control by monolithic corporations as well as grassroots decentralized storytelling. As Edward R. Murrow presciently stated, "If we were to do the second coming of Christ in colour for a full hour, there would be a considerable number of stations which would decline to carry it on the grounds that a Western or a quiz show would be more profitable." Storyliving represents a bold reclamation of these communication channels to serve humanity's highest values.

By democratizing narrative, Storyliving empowers us to become true architects shaping the future of human civilization through the breath of our shared and inevitably interconnected stories. It is an embodiment of the conscious evolution beckoning us to shed the shackles of antiquated constraints in order to dream a new dream for humanity. In doing so, we participate in the re-mythologization of the human experience - weaving a vibrant tapestry that elevates our collective journey toward a more unified, just and regenerative reality for all.

The Power of Story

Stories are the fundamental way humans make sense of the world and create shared meaning. From the ancient campfires where our ancestors wove tales of their journeys to the modern digital streams that connect a globally interconnected populace, narrative has been the cohering thread binding our species together.

As Michael Meade, a renowned mythologist, states: "Myth is the first and most fundamental way a culture survives. Myths represent the root stories from which cultures derive their codes for living..." The stories we tell, whether personal anecdotes or collectively mythologized epics, shape how we experience reality itself. They provide the frameworks through which we contextualize our lives, cultures, and perceived place in the cosmos. As the inimitable Joseph Campbell summed, "Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human cultural manifestation."

Our narratives are not mere fanciful entertainments, but reflections of our deepest subconscious patterns, values, and aspirations. As cultural anthropologist Henrietta Moore expounds, "Stories are one of the main ways in which we establish our human selves and our cultures and societies. The stories we tell shape our behavior and our understanding of the world around us." They reveal the hidden engines propelling our psychologies, behaviors, and societal norms. This is why the power to control the overarching stories and symbols has been so zealously guarded throughout history.

From the mythic traditions of indigenous tribes to the dogmas of organized religion to the nationalist fables of empires - dominant narratives have long been dictated and enforced by centralized powers and authorities. Those able to wield this narrative control have wielded immense influence over the shared consciousness of the masses. As author Philip Pullman eloquently described, "The ruling power is always faced with the question, 'In such and such circumstances, how shall we be storytellers ourselves?'"

The histories we teach, the virtues we extol, the figures we deify or vilify - all stem from these centrally-prescribed myths and stories absorbed into the cultural operating system. As businesses and governments have learned, he who defines the narratives goes a long way in defining perceived realities and norms.

In the 20th century, the emergence of mass media and broadcast communications turbocharged this ability of centralized forces to shape the stories penetrating into households across the globe. A handful of powerful entities then became the de facto high scribes of our collective myths.

As communications professor George Gerbner's seminal "Cultivation Theory" elucidated, the stories we consume from television and movies play a profound role in shaping our perceptions of reality. As he stated, "The stories watched by children become the stories that govern their lives."

Of course, these mainstream narratives have been routinely selective, subjective, and subject to obfuscation based on the agendas of those in control. Stories of oppression, injustice, and the unsavory actions of power structures are downplayed or reframed to suit their interests. All while promulgating regressive stereotypes and perpetuating narratives that preserve the status quo.

Activist and scholar Naomi Klein describes the power of these centrally-controlled cultural narratives: "Rocked by racial upheavals, economic insecurity, and war, the white middle class retreated into a nostalgic memory of itself, saw itself as the tireless worker and self-made man who built this nation...It was, of course, a deeply selective memory, one that conveniently forgot the genocide and land grab that made middle-class wealth possible."

The rise of the internet and social media has disrupted this centralized control to some degree, providing more avenues for diverse voices and countercultural narratives to proliferate. However, it has also created new centralized gatekeepers in the form of Big Tech and the attention economy.

While providing platforms for individuals to share their personal stories, companies like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube have become the new centralized powerbrokers dictating what narratives spread wide and what is suppressed in their unending pursuit of engagement and monetization. We have seen repeatedly how their algorithms and content moderators effectively pick "winners and losers" in the battle of narratives and ideas.

As legal scholar Rebecca Tushnet argues, "It's now commonplace that a few large companies regulate discourse in ways that were almost unimaginable even a decade ago. Tech policy determines who has a voice, more than almost any other factor."

This has led to rampant misinformation and deeply polarizing ideological echo chambers. In many ways, the internet's democratizing potential has been co-opted by forces replicating harmful, centralized control over narratives and groupthink - just with new mediums and methodologies.

Throughout all this, the sacred human capacity for storytelling has been slowly stripped away and commercialized. Our personal mythologies, our shared cultural epics, have been ceded to the highest bidders peddling reductive myths of consumerism and divisive distraction.

But in this void, a new voice is emerging - one that is reigniting the spark of our creative potential as Mythmakers and catalyzing a revolution for the re-empowerment of storytelling itself. As author Daniel Quinn posits, "The renaissance of oral mythology is the only thing that can give the members of a culture the courage to change the culture's mythic program."

Storyliving represents a radical paradigm shift - the democratization of narrative through principles of omnicentralization. By providing the frameworks and infrastructure for individuals to reclaim authorship of their personal stories while fostering collaborative, harmonized co-creation of an emergent planetary mythology, Storyliving is seeding the soil for the re-mythologization of the human experience.

Transcending the Centralized-Decentralized Dichotomy

For eons, the human narrative has been locked in a pendulum swing between centralization and decentralization of power, control, and creative authority. On one side lies the model of centralization - a singular centralized force exerting top-down dominance and influence over the greater whole. Kingdoms and empires, the Catholic Church, nation-states, and corporate monoliths have all exemplified this centralized archetype throughout history.

As political theorist Thomas Hobbes bluntly stated in his defense of sovereign authority, "The rights and consequences of sovereignty are blameless...For he that is discontented with any of them...must complain against an institution of commonwealths themselves." This philosophical bedrock provided justification for the consolidation of power and narrative control under centralized rule.

On the opposing side is the ideal of decentralization - distributing power across multiple nodes, individuals, or decentralized networks rather than consolidating it under one authority. From the democratic philosophy of ancient Athens to the P2P architectures underlying Bitcoin and Web3, this side of the pendulum has continually swung back to counteract excessive centralized control.

Each ideology has its merits and flaws. Centralized structures can provide decisive leadership, unified vision, and streamlined coordination when harnessed with integrity. As Aristotle argued, "A constitution is the way of life of a citizen body...the good life is the chief aim of every community of men." However, as we've seen repeatedly across cultures, the concentration of power tends to corrupt absolutely - leading to the oppression of individual liberties and the entrenchment of rigid hierarchies working to self-preserve rather than serve their constituents.

Decentralized systems, by contrast, uphold principles of autonomy, permissionless innovation, and diffusion of influence. They create space for diverse perspectives to emerge organically from the grassroots. As media theorist Marshall McLuhan proclaimed, "Our new electric universe will be pluralistic...decentralized and retribalizing." However, they can also devolve into disorganized chaos if taken to extremes, fracturing into siloed fragmentation or falling victim to a tyranny of majoritarian voices overshadowing important minority perspectives.

Ultimately, this centralized-decentralized dichotomy represents an incomplete, dualistic paradigm constraining humanity's vast creative potential. It forces us to vacillate between two imperfect models - hierarchical control vs scattered disorder; unified vision vs insular division. A new transcendent model is required to blend the productive aspects of each while evolving beyond their limitations.

This is where the philosophy of omnicentralization emerges as a coherent next step - an integrative framework that allows for individuals to each be recognized as sovereign points of creative authority, working in synergistic unison with the greater omnicentered whole.

As the philosopher Yasuhiko Kimura elucidates, omnicentralization requires the development of "omnicentric mind" - the ability to transcend attachment to singular viewpoints or paradigms in order to fluidly understand and synthesize multiple perspectives simultaneously.

"This is a tremendous freedom, mental and spiritual freedom," Kimura describes. "Then once you achieve this freedom, when you are with somebody, you can enter into that person's paradigm and understand what she or he is saying or thinking in terms of his or her own paradigm... Mutual understanding becomes possible."

In this elevated state of omnicentric awareness, the polarization between centralized control and distributed anarchy is revealed as an illusion born of limited perspectives. Both models are transcended and included, their vital strengths preserved while their toxic shadows are transformed through the coherent Light of a unifying, co-creative field of being.

This echoes the wisdom of philosopher David Spangler, whose philosophy of "holarchy" recognizes each individual's value not through dominance over others, but through the unique gifts they bring to the greater unified whole. As Spangler beautifully explains:

"In a hierarchy, participants can be compared and evaluated on the basis of position, rank, relative power, seniority, and the like. But in a holarchy each person's value comes from his or her individuality and uniqueness and the capacity to engage and interact with others to make the fruits of that uniqueness available."

Through this holarchic lens, indivisibility and separation are shed in favor of a "transcend and include" reality where apparent opposites are unified in a higher harmonic of being. Centralization and decentralization are not locked in conflict, but dynamically emanate from a common transcendent source.

This transcendent source could be considered Omnicentrality itself - the unified field that allows each individual's sovereignty to arise while ensuring all individuals are intimately interwoven parts of an indivisible whole system. It is akin to what theoretical physicist David Bohm described as the "implicate order" - the transcendent, undivided wholeness underlying perceived fragmentation and separation in the "explicate order" of material reality.

This principle is reflected in many ancient wisdom traditions, as anthropologist and cyberneticist Gregory Bateson pointed out: "The pattern on the individual circuit is a fragment having no existence inseparable from the larger infinite circuit of which it is a part, in all its states of Yessportion and NoSource-portion."

In the context of narrative authority, omnicentrality empowers each individual to be their own unique point of creative sovereignty - the "omnicentric author" of their personal mythology and lived experience. Yet it simultaneously dissolves the myth of separation by allowing each authored story to synergize into a larger holographic symphony - an emergent, co-created planetary mythology benefiting all of humanity.

Whereas competing dominant narratives clash in the centralized-decentralized paradigm, omnicentric narratives harmonize into elevated unified fields of resonance. They become like holographic lenses providing multidimensional vantage points on reality, each point of view illuminating greater insights when combined rather than contradicting one another.

This resonates with insights from transpersonal psychology and theorists like Ken Wilber, who posits that wholeness and integration only arise through including and transcending all fragmented perspectives, not transcending them prematurely. Through this process of "transcend and include", coherent holistic narratives can emerge to which each individual's story lines contribute harmoniously.

In this unified yet individuated field of storyliving, each person's lived experience and authentic narrative enriches rather than detracts from the greater whole. Diverse creativity is unleashed by honoring the unique voice of each mythmaker, giving rise to an infinite fractalizing of stories synergizing into ever-grander universal mythologies speaking to humanity's highest aspirations.

This omnicentric narrative resonance breaks the cyclical pendulum swings where one centralized voice dominates until decentralized resistance disperses that voice into fragmented discord. Instead, it establishes an equipotential playing field where each soul's song can be lifted in harmonic resonance, creating unified yet kaleidoscopic fields of story that continually elevate collective consciousness.

Within this harmonized field, we realize that the most empowered personal stories are those elevating the whole, while the most cohered universal narratives uphold the sovereignty of each unique experience. From this integral panorama, we transcend the limited centralized/decentralized dualities to embody a regenerative narrative ecosystem - one uplifting our diversity in service of our shared liberation and thriving on this planet.

Coming in Parts II & III

- Creative Visionaries: Togetherland, Fractal Impact Entertainment & Buckminster Fuller

Togetherland represents the overarching visionary blueprint for Storyliving - an all-encompassing "reality production" phenomenon catalyzing an evolutionary shift in human consciousness through participatory narratives.

The central "source plot" introduces the "Soulutionaries" group aiming to inspire humanity's transition from competition to co-creation. However, Togetherland is designed to seed infinite interconnected narratives emerging from both individual creative expression and shared planetary mythmaking.

While Togetherland provides the expansive vision, Fractal Impact Entertainment's use of AI and "Regenerative Filmmaking" actually materializes the lived experience required. Their "Regenerative Worldbuilding" process births interconnected "narrative ecosystems" engaging participants as active co-creators shaping myths aligned with nature's patterns.

Togetherland and Fractal Impact establishes the "transmedium, production" territory and infrastructures for global co-creation of a shared "reality script" through inlife and online perpetual participation. This allows individual and collective Storyliving to become an embodied way of dreaming and documenting new positive sum planetary myths into existence.

- Storyliving As A Lived Practice

Storyliving represents a profound philosophical and creative practice that empowers individuals to reclaim authorship over their personal narratives and mythologies, while symbiotically weaving them into an evolving universal tapestry of regenerative stories uplifting all humanity.

At the personal level, it allows sovereign crafting of one's identity and life story across interconnected realms using the tools of Livingry.

At the collective level, Storyliving births regenerative metta-narrative spaces where personal myths harmonize into an emergent planetary mythology reflecting unity with nature and universal patterns.

This synthesis is achieved through integrating art, creativity, technology, and indigenous wisdom recognizing humanity's primordial union with nature, and cultivating a sacred reciprocal relationship with the Earth.

- Omnicentralized Technologies: Symphonics, Holochain, Coasys, Synergy Engine and a Holographic Economy (HiFi)

Symphonics provides social architecture and ‘'synergy logic,’’ restoring the feminine balance to our technological landscape and therefore a peace industry and the economics of true co-creation.

The Coasys platform provides the key technological infrastructure to enable true omnicentralized participatory storytelling through Storyliving. It is built in alignment with the Holochain framework, taking an "agent-centric" approach where each user has their own sovereign data ledger and permanent record rather than a single canonical global state.

The core components are the Synergy Engine for real-time collaborative creation across users, integration with the Charged Particles platform for tokenization of narrative elements as fractionalized NFTs to incentivize participation, and the LLAM (Large Language Avatar Model) protocol for portable digital identities tied to personal narratives and fractal impact entertainment.

This architecture decentralizes creative autonomy to individuals while allowing harmonious collaboration and unified experiences to emerge from the individual perspectival threads. It removes centralized control to foster an intersubjective "narrative mettaverse" where the boundaries between creators and audiences dissolve into co-created storyliving realms.

The I~CO For Humanity (Infinite Co-creative Opportunity) will unleash the Holonic Cryptocurrentsee, Fractal Reserve and Holographic Economy (HiFi) of a New Word Order and Storyliving As A Service… to a world that works for 100% of humanity.