Recreation

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Not long ago I launched an idea called Triadic Philosophy. It is summarized in Triadic Philosophy 100 Aphorisms available at the Kindle Store.. It grew into several more books. “Cybercommunity — A Handbook seeks to lay out a community concept based on the values of tolerance, helpfulness, democracy and non-idolatry, integral and car-free.

We shall discuss the radically-altered meaning of work anon, but we can commence now by saying that re-creation, with the hyphen, means creating yourself anew. This means that, yes, your intuition that games are not completely a waste of time is correct. It means that there are things you must do if you want to continue to be someone on the way to learning to be loving and free. Since that is the top of the tower of achievement and since recreation is an aspect of self-development, it makes sense to venerate it.

Respect recreation. Regard it with admiration and even as sacred.

This is merely preamble to saying that recreation is the purpose of cybercities.

Consider the evolution here:

1. Cities were cesspools of evil and country was where you got protection from same.
2. Cities were filthy disease factories. Their mere density was a good argument for moving out of them.
3. Cities became inner, an intentional ghetto.
4. Suburbs were salvation, enabled by cars.
5. Suburbs morphed into sprawl, obscured by a fatuous middle class mantra about success and following rules.
6. A capitalist juggernaut proceeded to globalize itself. Its signature was the hallowing of sprawl, idolizing cars and creating separations by class, race, culture and every other divisive metric.
7. It all began to come apart with the arrival of the computer which turned out to be the next car. Only a few saw what that meant. Hint: Re-creation.
8. One result is the relentless rise of an automation undreamed of even as I type these words. One of its keywords is 3D Printing. We are approaching a massive physical re-creation. It is newer than Rome.

Cybercommunity means literally that walking is where it’s at. No walk. No new.

The cybercommunity means that we are free to choose the values which will be honored by us today.

We can choose selfishness and risk sliding down the slope to evils that will harm us and bring others down.

Or we can grasp self-respect and begin the ascent through the values that a cybercommunity champions. Up through helpfulness, and tolerance and democracy.

The upward trail.

Being a kid again.

Re-creating.

This handbook accompanies Planning and Designing a Good Future: What to Strive for and What to Avoid http://buff.ly/1F4DU5V