Who Am I?

I thought I would write something behind this writing that appears here, to give some indication that it is really just the ideas of a person who really does not yet have a clue of how any of it could work. But who believes it is still possible nonetheless...

So who am I?...

My name is Shawn Du'Mmett, I was born in [ ... ].

Essentially, who is this?...

I exist now at this moment - It is a total mystery to me that I do exist and cannot imagine being anyone or anything else. I perceive an infinitesimal part of the universe through my senses and I am in total awe of the beauty and mystery of it all. I am not you - I do not experience you as you do - and that is a mystery beyond my comprehension that I exist, that I am real, that I am here and now. If you feel this mystery within you then isn't it wonderful. You exist and can change your part of the physical universe, you can learn, experience and take part in this awesome creation.

It is my belief that you are like me and hence my hope is that some time, somehow, I can help you be all that you can be too. My real purpose in life is to understand and learn more of the universe around me, to grow and to be all that I can be. To be positive and good in my understanding of what those concepts mean and to help everyone and everything achieve their purpose and destiny.

I am limited by my physical and mental abilities and by my perception of my experiences of the life I can remember so far. I am aging, right now I am 46 and it is a shock to me that my body is slowly deteriorating, aging but inside feeling ageless and the same person that I was when I was 18. It is deeply hard for me to accept that I will not exist in 100 years time or that I cannot perceive anything of life before my birth and my conceptual immortality appears to be just a dream or imagination.

I have my ideals of what I really want from this existence - or any other...
I want to always be - to exist.
I want to always have freedom to choose my destiny.
I want to have the freedom to go anywhere or any time within everything.
I want the freedom to choose my form and my nature at any time.
I want to learn and understand that which created me - that surrounds and is part of me.
I want to do the best that I can do and be the best that I can be.
I want to love everything and help all life.
I want to experience all things that I am drawn to in this universe.

Is this universe, God? By the universe I mean all that exists anywhere, anytime or any dimension or concept that is beyond my understanding and so I will use the concept of the infinite. Or is God the ultimate sum of all that lives, exists?

All I know is that right now, in my present understanding of the universe, over 13 billion years from a catastrophic event, and within 93 billion light years of space that can be perceived, I exist here and now. Made from the same stuff as was created in stars billions of years ago. Where am I within this physical space that appears to surround me, I sense my existence somewhere behind my eyes, but feel emotion from somewhere around my heart. One mystery is that if any one particle of me is removed for a moment and then replaced I would neither cease to exist nor change. I seem to be something different to this physical existence but do not have the knowledge of what it could be. Herein, lies my hope for permanent existence in one form or another.

What do I believe?

I believe that nothing is essentially good or evil but I choose a concept of good because it is inherent in me.
I believe that even though my life may be mundane and unimportant that I have purpose and can at times create something wonderful.
I believe that everything and all life is important, that my current limitations are temporary and with purpose that as I grow I will learn why this is so.
I believe that there are others like me, who understand the basics of what is written here, who are alive also and through them I will learn more about this condition of life that exists now. We will help each other achieve our destinies, through our desire to help each other and all living things and be a positive part of the universe in which we live.

But who am I?

I am Shawn Du'Mmett, an ordinary person, who has not really achieved anything of note, who struggles with everyday life, trying to survive, trying to be a good father, husband and friend, a member of society. Limited by my experiences and abilities, making decisions and actions, doing things wrong and learning sometimes from those mistakes and wishing I never made them. But my essential desire summed up in

'to be all that I can be and to help others achieve all that they can be'.

The System

This is a rambling that occurred to me a few nights ago - one of those moments when thinking about the idea of BeyondOneWorld and a deluge of thoughts and questions came that needed to be dealt with. I just scribbled down notes as they came and tried as much as I could to join the dots. I thought I should type them up here before they get lost and as something I should tackle later on.

I was thinking about the possibilities and the concept of the system that would be needed...

The System

What is its definition?
What is it?
Its purpose and its function?
How can we be all that we can be and collaborate to achieve our goals individually and globally?
How can we define what it is that we need to do to make a system that removes all that we agree is negative and function efficiently towards fulfilling all that we agree is positive?
What are the problems of conceptual and informational noise that any system would suffer from when it increases in size and complexity?
How can we ensure that it remains positive assuming that many parts of it will be under contention while being formed?
What are it features?
How does it differ from any forms of law, government and control that we have accomplished already throughout history?

The system must be our equal in authority? Its power over us is only possible because we choose it - accept that it is there because we desire it. It must be our choice collectively, though the idea of whether it is our servant or whether we serve each other through it needs to be thought through.

It needs the tools, the function and dynamics to be able to evolve as we create and develop it. The cloud that is mentioned in relation to current ideas does not appear to have form. Our innate language of though and concept should help communicate and structure how it could possibly work.

What concepts must be a part of it?
Concepts of change control, efficiency, simplicity, transparency and visibility are immediate ones that seem inevitable.

It must be the best that we are capable of creating, using our best techniques to fulfil from the most basic to our highest ideals. It must be by definition the best, most positive, most perfect attempt at doing it right. From our highest ideals what can be the building blocks of its creation - other than just the idea?

All definition needs to be explored. It must be created with the idea that can finally create a system by which we can all participate and agree upon. To have a system that allows every person in existence to be an equal and those who are willing and able to be able to participate in its creation, development and evolution.

It must never allow any individual the power to harm another, or monopolise any resource important to another.

Ideally it will be changed and set goals to remove all inefficiencies that can be identified globally (universally), that competition for power or resource will never be needed.

The beliefs, faiths, religions, concepts of God and goodness contained within its purpose must be only those things that can be agreed upon globally and universally.

The rights of all individuals must be equal, fully agreed upon and enforced.

The system must be accessible and visible to all that are supported by it and actually support it. Language cannot be a barrier and the concepts defined within it to be universal.

The resources, function and support it gives to each and very individual must always be supported constantly and consistently.

It must be a central point of information, resource and support, flowing freely in need, that although distributed globally (universally) and among all individuals be efficiently available to all.

All information within it must always be transparent and visible , there can never be secrets, hidden processes or resources attached to all knowledge within it and offer all individuals universal access to learning, review and participation in information and function.



What is the best legacy to leave the generations that follow us, our children and their children?
- or indeed any life that we will subsequently be responsible for.

A form of government that will remove any need for war, slavery and suffering caused by the imbalance of power between nation, region, tribe, corporation or any group of people.

A system by which they can grow, learn, experience and understand the universe in which they live, to be able to follow their own destinies and to be all that they wish to be. To give them the ability to work together to take on any challenge that awaits them individually or globally in the future.

The availability of generations of knowledge and experience through which to be able to push the barriers of understanding and to reach new levels of civilisation.

The power to tackle global changes and the ability, power and resource to reach beyond one world into new undiscovered realms, whether physical, mental or new forms of existence.

There is a universe of opportunity, resource, possibility and experience available to all willing to create the foundations and building blocks of a supporting system.

Our fragile existence on our cradle planet, our ultimate survival will depend on our success beyond one world.

To achieve this necessary step our ability to work together, our beliefs and attitudes towards each other must focus on the real, truthful and positive aspects as if we are all one close family, working together, for our own individual benefit and those of the whole family.

The system represented here should be the combination and integration of the best systems that we are capable of at any time, to always look towards improving efficiency and possibility.

A new form of government that allows that allows every individual equality in power will finally remove the suffering of those at the opposition or subservient to any tyrant, nation or corporation. It will allow the complete collaboration of global challenges in economical, climatic or ethical problems in tackling, removing or easing their effects. Global or universal projects will be possible that will enable all one day to travel freely, communicate with others effortlessly (hopefully with other life in the future), access all information and knowledge and offer the care and support to those in need effectively, quickly and absolutely. The conflict of effort that is inherent in separate government or corporation can be removed allowing for an acceleration in economics, production, learning, technology and social efforts, new possibilities and opportunities will increase as each individual will be able to focus or change their participation as it suits them. All individuals will have equal opportunity to work whenever they wish on the global framework that could be possible in this system. The complete freedom of change in location, learning and skill will enable more freedom in the diverse cultures to work together and understand each other. National, regional, geographical and tribal barriers will disappear as the collaboration grows but virtual groups of ideas and discussion will enable more consideration of diverse thought and debate.

With the possibility of open, transparent and global collaboration comes the opportunity of removing the waste of corporate competition. The most effective and efficient method of production or service delivery will enable global and single methods to be utilised, considered, researched or discussed in open collaboration - ending the need for any individual or group owned corporation. All the diversity of products and services could be handled from within the system under the directorship of each and every participating individual.

Is it possible to simply begin creation of this system by first focusing on all those ideas, definitions, principals and requirements that are agreed upon by all individuals participating in developing the system? Finding first the basics upon which all agree? Then working upon the possible methods by which change and development can take place.

How? - It will develop if more participate
When? - Now
Where? - Anywhere, but somewhere visible - Maybe I am not the one to determine this?
Why? - This burns deeply within me. I want to scream out

'Come on everyone,

Let's finally free ourselves,

Lets do the best that we can do together,

Lets grow up, put away childish ideas and help ourselves and each other once and for all,

Lets move on!'

- but for the sake of perceived sanity I will just write it here...

The End of The Corporation

A corporation is in itself a unique system; within it gets created its own language and rules to fulfill a purpose. The purpose would be focused on a set of skills, products or services that for it to survive should simply make money, essentially to exclusively benefit those who have a share in it and control it. The problem is that for a corporation to be effective it requires individuals moulded into its system to function solely within a small subset of its processes. It used to be thought of individuals living their whole life within the processes of this system but a trend has slowly emerged over time that individuals migrate, not only within the one organisation but across many. It seems that this trend is towards more migration and more change for the individual ultimately to a point where a person will have many careers in their life, possibly many at the same time.

Pushing the boundaries here it appears we are leading towards a time when the individual may work for a corporation as and when they wish to, on what they are capable of doing when a requirement appears. Imagine, everyone becoming freelancers of a sort, picking and choosing what jobs they will do as and when they require, or more ideally when they want to. The corporation becomes more and more just a shell of processes and stored knowledge to fulfil its purpose. Imagine the opportunity to the individual in learning and developing many skills as they please, instead of being tied to a grinding wheel fixed by the corporation. How the individual would find the work would be through some form of agency that allows all of these functions to be marketed to anyone that requires them. Today we have service auctions that allow service providers the opportunity to bid and work for other individuals or companies and I can see this idea evolving further to allow “everyone” to work on “anything” that is “available”. These have so far taken advantage of cheap labour markets; however, those markets would not remain cheap for long and if the agency is taken to evolved global form would level out all individuals with the same opportunities and benefits.

Now the corporation can be seen as just a method for achieving its purpose – ultimately to benefit its share holders. What if the corporate system existed within a universal framework that has everyone as the shareholder?

One of the biggest problems with a corporation is ultimately in its efficiency. It cannot nowadays exist as a monopoly and must therefore compete with other companies to target a market. It can never be efficient, precious effort and resources will always be wasted in its effort to compete with its rivals. If everyone is equally its shareholder then all that is left is its methods for achieving a purpose and only one set of method is required to fulfil one purpose. The corporation will not be needed. If this set of methods is developed openly and transparently then any part of it can be scrutinised for efficiency and changed, they can be used and reused efficiently to fulfil many different purposes. Different versions can be created and tested out to constantly improve them and the best of any previously learned corporate methods can made to benefit everyone.

There will be no more need for corporate secrets, no more restrictions on the freedoms of employees, all of the system will be available for anyone to challenge and the sharing of skills and creativity will improve its efficiency.
We have a final form of corporation, global, universal, where everyone is equally the director, the employee and the customer. The rate at which progress could be made could be phenomenal, no more wasted or conflicting efforts, no more misinformation or misdirection that advertising a brand would require. The days of the corporation may well be seen as the time when the rich had power over the poor and exploited them for their own financial gain. Now we exploit each other equally to fulfill our needs for products and services with the benefit of tackling any global issues and requirements effectively.

For the individuals that this final form serves, they have the means to be psychologically self-determined, never working each others’ failure because this would have a negative impact upon them directly. They will have the ability to collaborate and create ideal products and services, from society wide inventiveness, fit for purpose, fully supported and using the most ideal resources. The customer would be fully served; no more false claims or promises.

Al Gore Shivering - In Ice

One funny bit of news to finish off - A group of skeptics in Fairbanks, Alaska have created a 5-ton ice sculpture of a shivering Al Gore, apparently debating the idea of global warming, inviting him to put his argument forward and by pointing out that it should last until March before melting away. As a resident of England I am actually painfully aware that global warming to us will be a massive freeze, once the fresh water clogs up the currents bring us the Gulf Stream we are in for similar weather to Greenland.

Another area for the wiki should also will be a summation of the current global issues facing us. Particularly of the type that one nation alone cannot tackle.

Obama's Challenge

It's notable too that today Obama will take the oath of office on President Abraham Lincoln's inaugural Bible on the steps of the Capitol building. He has evoked the spirit of the assassinated civil rights leader Martin Luther King, calling on Americans to dedicate themselves to public service to help the many people facing hardship. I am interested in how he handles making the government more open. His first challenge however will be tackle the current financial crisis.

I was tempted to write my own version of Martin Luther Kings speech "I Have A Dream" - but one, I don't think I could follow up a powerful speech such as this, and two, I think I had better find some interest in the idea first.