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# Core beliefs and principles
*(Original Draft by Pospi)*
* The future is feminine. We aim to embody and spread the adoption of matriarchal technologies, organising principles, social norms and regenerative design patterns.
* There is no "thing" that can save us from planetary collapse or human extinction. No solutions are final. Nothing we create has universal applicability. All we can do is to enact incremental improvements, assess and improve. The success of the process hinges on us staying in conversation with those who use our tools.
* Our focus is on amplifying change which emerges organically, from the bottom upwards. Genuine and lasting change cannot be dictated, controlled or managed; it must emerge naturally and fluidly.
* Change must be embodied, lived and experienced in order to be realised. Theories of change are inert if not stemming from personal and collective practise.
* The outcomes created by an organisation are a direct consequence of its culture. Nurturing and holding space for culture are the most important and fundamental things a group can do to ensure their long-term success.
* Continual effort and energy must be placed into creating and maintaining counter-cultures to the modern day White Supermacist Capitalist Imperialist Patriarchy. External society and norms exert pressure; resistance must be practised in our everyday ways of being.
* _"On the day after the revolution, the revolutionaries will be the new incumbents"._ All things have their time. No group was meant to last forever. We will exist as long as is necessary, until our ways are old and tired and better things have come along.
## Thoughts from Sid:
Great articulation @pospi, I think this represents the essence of Economikit. I'm assuming you meant this as a first draft, so here's a couple suggestions to get the conversation going:
(Disclaimer: I haven't had much sleep last couple days, so my articulation game is a bit off. But I feel comfortable letting things flow with this group even if it's not perfect :p)
- Wondering if we should use the word 'female'. It feels very literal to me, and may land with different communities in a way that doesn't resonate with us. Perhaps we could abstract the spirit of this in some way? I like the framing of 'Yin' and 'Yang'.
- What I like about the Yin-Yang framework, is that it includes the complementary energy within it. For example, I don't think we're talking about being all 'female'. I sense Economikit is about leading with the female, and skilfully using the gentle masculine to give shape to what emerges. So while the traditional economic system may be patriarchal, I think of Economikit as birthing Matriarchal systems (crude language, but I think you get the gist Lol)
- I resonate with change coming from the ground up, that it must be embodied, and that the true transformation is in culture. Could we soften the language a bit? For example, instead of 'Real change comes organically, from the bottom upword'; we could frame it as 'we are focused on amplifying change that emerges organically, from the bottom upward.. '. I sense it would go a long way in communicating humility that I have no doubt exists in all our hearts.
- While there's enough collectives out there focused on moving to the p2p/distributed paradigm, I'm excited by the prospect of building contextual systems that guide this new space. Wondering if Economikit's scope extends to this. For eg, Holochain may enable p2p infrastucture, but Economikit builds tools that allow for orchestration in this new paradigm. Without a web of embodied social intelligence, the distributed paradigm will feel lifeless and one-dimensional. (Neighbourhoods is an example of this imo)