From douglas at publicsphereproject.org Sat Aug 8 11:13:54 2015 From: douglas at publicsphereproject.org (Doug Schuler) Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2015 11:13:54 -0700 Subject: [Pattern-language] Patterns of Civic Ignorance: An Anti-Pattern Language Message-ID: <79DD28E3-1E45-47B9-A972-6F47BAF31644@publicsphereproject.org> I'm not sure what I've said about our "anti-pattern language" but I thought I'd share it. Our patterns of oppression, exploitation, inequality, etc. are finally online. What the world doesn't need! Patterns of Civic Ignorance: An Anti-Pattern Language (1st draft) http://publicsphereproject.org/anti-patterns (Feel free to publicize... ) Thanks! 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URL: From valeriebrown at ozemail.com.au Sat Aug 8 15:01:52 2015 From: valeriebrown at ozemail.com.au (Valerie Brown) Date: Sun, 09 Aug 2015 08:01:52 +1000 Subject: [Pattern-language] Patterns of Civic Ignorance: An Anti-Pattern Language In-Reply-To: <79DD28E3-1E45-47B9-A972-6F47BAF31644@publicsphereproject.org> References: <79DD28E3-1E45-47B9-A972-6F47BAF31644@publicsphereproject.org> Message-ID: <55C67C50.8090808@ozemail.com.au> Thanks Doug - or rather no thanks! Valerie On 9/08/2015 4:13 AM, Doug Schuler wrote: > I'm not sure what I've said about our "anti-pattern language" but I > thought I'd share it. Our patterns of oppression, exploitation, > inequality, etc. are finally online. > > > What the world /doesn't/ need! > > Patterns of Civic Ignorance: An Anti-Pattern Language (1st draft) > > http://publicsphereproject.org/anti-patterns > > > (Feel free to publicize... ) > > Thanks! > > > Douglas Schuler > douglas at publicsphereproject.org > Twitter: @doug_schuler @GlobalHunt4ci > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Public Sphere Project > http://www.publicsphereproject.org/ > > Mailing list ~ Collective Intelligence for the Common Good > _http://scn9.scn.org/mailman/listinfo/ci4cg-announce_ > Creating the World Citizen Parliament > http://interactions.acm.org/archive/view/may-june-2013/creating-the-world-citizen-parliament > > Liberating Voices! A Pattern Language for Communication Revolution > (project) > http://www.publicsphereproject.org/patterns/lv > > > Liberating Voices! 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URL: From douglas at publicsphereproject.org Sun Aug 9 15:39:49 2015 From: douglas at publicsphereproject.org (Doug Schuler) Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2015 15:39:49 -0700 Subject: [Pattern-language] Patterns of Civic Ignorance: An Anti-Pattern Language In-Reply-To: <55C67C50.8090808@ozemail.com.au> References: <79DD28E3-1E45-47B9-A972-6F47BAF31644@publicsphereproject.org> <55C67C50.8090808@ozemail.com.au> Message-ID: <9E517BCF-341A-413E-BAC3-CA57340E7940@publicsphereproject.org> Good to hear from you Val! We mean this as a positive thing! I should have mentioned the idea is that this ultimately can / could / should be very useful. These patterns of oppression, etc. are patterns in the sense that they happen over and over again in various cultures. Presumably if we know how these patterns are created and maintained we can interrupt or deflect or transcend them. I included the article that we submitted to the 2013 PUARL conference. It's about the "surprising power" of exploring the "dark side." The publication has been delayed considerably and I think I'll bug the principals about this. Thanks Val! > On Aug 8, 2015, at 3:01 PM, Valerie Brown wrote: > > Thanks Doug - or rather no thanks! Valerie > > > On 9/08/2015 4:13 AM, Doug Schuler wrote: >> I'm not sure what I've said about our "anti-pattern language" but I thought I'd share it. Our patterns of oppression, exploitation, inequality, etc. are finally online. >> >> >> What the world doesn't need! >> >> Patterns of Civic Ignorance: An Anti-Pattern Language (1st draft) >> >> http://publicsphereproject.org/anti-patterns >> >> >> (Feel free to publicize... ) >> >> Thanks! >> >> >> Douglas Schuler >> douglas at publicsphereproject.org >> Twitter: @doug_schuler @GlobalHunt4ci >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Public Sphere Project >> http://www.publicsphereproject.org/ >> Mailing list ~ Collective Intelligence for the Common Good >> http://scn9.scn.org/mailman/listinfo/ci 4cg-announce >> >> Creating the World Citizen Parliament >> http://interactions.acm.org/archive/view/may-june-2013/creating-the-world-citizen-parliament >> >> Liberating Voices! A Pattern Language for Communication Revolution (project) >> http://www.publicsphereproject.org/patterns/lv >> >> Liberating Voices! A Pattern Language for Communication Revolution (book) >> http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11601 >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Pattern-language mailing list >> Pattern-language at scn9.scn.org >> http://scn9.scn.org/mailman/listinfo/pattern-language > > -- > Valerie A. Brown AO, BSc MEd PhD > Emeritus Professor, University of Western Sydney > Director, Local Sustainability Project, > Fenner School of Environment and Society > Australian National University, val.brown at anu.edu.au > Ph/Fax 61 (0)2 62958650 > http://www.sustainability.org.au > _______________________________________________ > Pattern-language mailing list > Pattern-language at scn9.scn.org > http://scn9.scn.org/mailman/listinfo/pattern-language Douglas Schuler douglas at publicsphereproject.org Twitter: @doug_schuler ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Public Sphere Project http://www.publicsphereproject.org/ Mailing list ~ Collective Intelligence for the Common Good http://scn9.scn.org/mailman/listinfo/ci4cg-announce Creating the World Citizen Parliament http://interactions.acm.org/archive/view/may-june-2013/creating-the-world-citizen-parliament Liberating Voices! 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URL: From douglas at publicsphereproject.org Sun Aug 16 02:15:26 2015 From: douglas at publicsphereproject.org (Doug Schuler) Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2015 02:15:26 -0700 Subject: [Pattern-language] Fwd: Patterns of Civic Ignorance: An Anti-Pattern Language In-Reply-To: <2309D1B5-2AC6-496A-96E6-ED431B262E8B@igc.org> References: <79DD28E3-1E45-47B9-A972-6F47BAF31644@publicsphereproject.org> <55C70B40.2010700@wikiservice.at> <007743A9-9F30-4575-AB0E-D93302AAEF52@igc.org> <0EF79E11-28A5-4C8C-B5FB-7E001269C591@publicsphereproject.org> <2309D1B5-2AC6-496A-96E6-ED431B262E8B@igc.org> Message-ID: Greetings from Denmark... Here is some of an exchange that I had with Tom Atlee. Tom has been involved in co-intelligence for (I'm guessing) 25 years... Tomorrow is the World Machines ( http://designforsharing.com/workshop-on-making-world-machines/) workshop and I see the "anti-patterns" as relevant... — Doug ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Tom Atlee Date: Sun, Aug 9, 2015 at 4:54 PM Subject: Re: [Pattern-language] Patterns of Civic Ignorance: An Anti-Pattern Language To: Doug Schuler Hi Doug, Feel free to send my note to your pattern language list (accompanied by your original note, of course). I see from your focus on patterns for/from “the dark side” that we actually did have a somewhat different center of gravity. I’m less focused on what is “bad” (as in undesirable or damaging) than on what is “collectively stupid” (as in groups’, communities’, and societies' inability to understand and deal well with what’s really there in and around them, especially when it changes or challenges existing understandings or capacities). These two foci overlap a lot, but are not the same thing, thus the several points of dissonance between our two pattern catalogs. Framing these things as “bad” is probably what alerted me to their progressive perspective. I see in your paper that you and the team explicitly framed these as things to be resisted. From a co-intelligence perspective, resistance is only one - and not necessarily the most potent - response to something “bad”. Other responses include transcending it (such as creating alternative institutions), learning from it (or using it to educate others, especially about systemic causes), sensing its larger role and value (as in its relationship to persistent larger systems, and the needs it serves or purports to serve), using it creatively, co-opting or productively “moving with" its energy (“Aikido’ing” it), partnering with allies involved with it (as in classic nonviolence campaigns a la Gene Sharp, or the alliance between the American Conservative Union and the ACLU to fight the Patriot Act), dialogue (especially choice-creating) with its stakeholders, Trojan Horses (things those using the “bad” anti-pattern will adopt that will corrode their effectiveness and/or their badness, such as participatory processes and diversity efforts adopted by businesses to enhance their competitiveness in the global marketplace), etc., as well as assisting the victims (which can be done strategically as exemplified by the Black Panthers and Food Not Bombs) The framework of “resistance" (which I am familiar with from my progressive and draft resistance activist background) can, if it is held as the central mode, limit our sense of strategic and tactical possibilities, as well as shut us off from the fullness of life that includes The Other. But I like the idea of developing anti-pattern languages to better understand the design elements and interrelationships that help bad/co-stupid/dysfunctional systems persist. The nature and density of the connections between the patterns become as important as the patterns themselves, for that purpose. I appreciate the attempt, stated in the paper, of not writing the patterns as if they were bad. I think you had mixed success with that :-)… I like your “network of links between anti-patterns” graphic. It is beautiful. I was so sad when http://reliableprosperity.net removed their similar graphic and replaced it with the linear hierarchical “blossom” model on their home page. I suppose more people value the oversimplified presentation…. Your thoughts on PL development as a pedagogical approach are quite interesting, even though that is not my usual frame of reference. What an adventure! I “should” be doing all sorts of other things (which I shall now return to), but I seem to have energy for this, too. Coheartedly, Tom > On Aug 9, 2015, at 2:13 PM, Doug Schuler wrote: > > Thanks Tom! Very nice to get the extended feedback. > > Can I send your note to our pattern language list? ( http://scn9.scn.org/mailman/listinfo/pattern-language) > > I don't have the time to read (and consider) your note in detail at the moment but it looks GREAT and very much related to our work. Maybe the work on the next version can / should begin.... > > I've attached the article that we presented at the PUARL conference in 2013. Unfortunately the publication seems to be stalled at the moment. It talks about our rationale and the "power of addressing the dark side." (Also connecting it somewhat to the Liberating Voices work) > > Just a note about the history of our project... A student quite energetically broke in during a seminar we were having (at Evergreen) and, after apologizing for the interruption, proclaimed that it was essential that we develop an anti-pattern language. I disagreed basically because the Alexandrian concept of the pattern language was to focus on the good. Basically the other students agreed with the proposer and I relented. And I was happy that I did! > > BTW, one of the main reasons for the anti-patterns was to inspect just how social (and other) dominance, etc. is perpetrated (over and over again) and how to interrupt those processes or even "run them in reverse." > http://www.publicsphereproject.org/node/203, Social Dominance Attenuation > > Thanks Tom and all of you! > > — Doug > > PS. I said I wasn't going to comment on your note specifically but ... weapons can probably be unintentional? > > > > >> On Aug 9, 2015, at 7:41 AM, Tom Atlee wrote: >> >> Dear Helmut (and Doug), >> >> Wow! This is a great idea and a great start. >> >> I’m cautious (from a collective intelligence perspective) that some of these anti-patterns might lead to too great a focus on the effects or manifestations of societal co-stupidity rather than inspiring attention to causes. I think of patterns being design elements - things we want to keep in mind and put in place if we are designing something. Anti-patterns are things we want to manifest if we are designing a life-degrading or dysfunctional system - or which will manifest a life-degrading or dysfunctional system if we don’t pay attention to minimizing them in our designs and activities. >> >> So the following comments are from that perspective. Doug doesn’t necessarily have the co-stupidy/co-intelligence framing as his central organizing principle, so my comments may not fit with his own intentions and needs here. But his seed crystal anti-patterns have definitely sparked my own thinking, so I’ll proceed with the preceding caveats in mind... >> >> I thought up a couple of dozen co-stupidity anti-patterns after looking at his list. I’ll give some commentary on some of his anti-patterns (with a few of mine tossed in for contrast) and then offer the rest of the anti-pattern ideas I jotted down this morning, just as a straight list. >> >> Focus on Deficiencies is a good anti-pattern, but the description is framed in terms of elites focusing on the deficiencies of marginalized people and communities, rather than a generic pattern which would include progressive activists focusing on the deficiencies of - for example - the capitalist system without acknowledging its benefits. The power of this anti-pattern is, it seems to me, that it highlights what is lost when we ignore virtues, assets, and possibilities - whoever “we” may be and whomever or whatever “we” may be considering. >> >> Weapons of Mass Distraction is also good, but its name is framed in intentional terms: i.e., “weapons” are something used to destroy or threaten. (The description notes that this anti-pattern can be unintentional, but that contradicts the title). “Entertainment culture” or, more generally, “Culture of Distraction” might be more neutral terms (the latter embraces the former, so is probably better). >> >> Sustaining World Hunger, Profit Motivated Health Care, Environmental Degradation, and Criminalizing Poverty seem to me to be more effects or manifestations of co-stupidity than causes of it, although a case can be made that they impact people’s ability to generate collective intelligence. (Consumerism is a borderline case for this, although I suspect its primary role in generating co-stupidity is covered by the Culture of Distraction anti-pattern.) The four anti-patterns mentioned at the beginning of this paragraph are also framed from a progressive perspective - they are major progressive issues which non-progressives may not share - which biases them and undermines their generic validity. I feel patterns should be universally recognized as valid for the purpose for which they are articulated. >> >> Dehumanization, Racism, Xenophobia, and Social Darwinism are specific manifestations of more generic anti-patterns like Disrespect and Oppression which cover all such manifestations. I’d prefer those latter anti-patterns, so that we don’t overlook Agism, Sexism, Abilitism, and all the others (the closer we look the more we can see!!!). (Personally I prefer “Denial of Beingness” as the meta-anti-pattern here, but that would not be understood by too many people.) This whole realm is interestingly covered by the Dignity Movement http://www.breakingranks.net. It would say the anti-pattern here is Rankism. It is a powerful - if sadly not widely grasped - concept. Perhaps we should adopt and promote it as an anti-pattern. >> >> Monopoly is great but I think it unduly draws our attention to corporate/economic monopolies. A more generic term which contains more information would be Unanswerable Concentrated Power, which is fractal and cross-sector, and embraces Monopoly and much more. (I am biased towards this term due to my late father’s study of the subject - my edit/summary of which is the most referenced article on my website, “Democracy: A Social Power Analysis” http://co-intelligence.org/CIPol_democSocPwrAnal.html.) >> >> Silenced voices, Activist Delegitimization, Media Monopolies are for me all manifestations of One Voice Dominates, Censorship and/or Conformity which are more generic (at least for the purposes of a co-stupidity pattern language). Of course, pattern languages themselves are often fractal, so all these articulations can co-exist in this anti-pattern language. >> >> Distorted History suggests that there is one accurate history, which I believe is a very questionable assertion. Believing that history should be taught and known from multiple perspectives, I would prefer One-Sided History as the history-related anti-pattern. However, that doesn’t adequately cover the intentional alteration of known facts (rather than omissions, biased framings, and different emphases, all of which are virtually inevitable in historical work which, after all, has a perspective in order to be meaningful). Intentional alteration of evidenced historic fact should be covered in Asserted Falsehoods which covers more ground than merely historic falsehoods. (“Lies” could also be used as the anti-pattern, although white lies and social lies and unintentional falsehoods could also fall under that word, which would make its application a bit messy.) >> >> Below is my brainstorm of more anti-patterns promoting co-stupidity. >> >> It’s all fascinating… >> >> Coheartedly, >> Tom >> >> Deviance Punished >> Winner-take-all Majoritarianism (promotes polarization and other reductionist dualisms; depowers minorities and exploratory impulses) >> Wheeling and Dealing >> Consensus through Compromise (rather than addressing valid concerns, needs, interests) >> Vast Wealth Inequality (because it concentrates power which distorts society’s ability to think well and creatively together) >> Short-Term Thinking >> Unacknowledged Bias >> Self-Censorship >> Obsequiousness >> Privatization of the Commons (reduces both motivation for and resources for collaboration) >> Irresponsible Privilege (this is in addition to Unacknowledged Privilege) >> Double Standards >> Overshoot (this comes from my reading an amazing book by that title by Wm Catton Jr; Overshoot is both a symptom and a cause of co-stupidity, a cause because it promotes scarcity and social fragmentation that replace collaboration and rationality with competitive struggle and short-term thinking) >> Exclusively Linear Logic >> Culture of Debate (as contrasted with dialogue, deliberation, choice-creating, etc.; reinforces 2-sided logic, polarization, and battle as opposed to shared learning and creativity) >> No One Listening >> Missing Feedback >> No Implementation >> No Review >> Judgment in Place of Discernment >> Social Fragmentation (Factionalism and Low Social Capital being sub-anti-patterns) >> Waste of Diversity >> Blocked Curiosity >> Co-creativity Stifled >> Omitted Context >> Fixed Ideas (I see this as more general than Fundamentalism) >> >> >> >>> On Aug 9, 2015, at 1:11 AM, Helmut Leitner wrote: >>> >>> Deer Tom, >>> >>> with respect to the topic of co(llective)(-)stupity, >>> I want to point to Doug Schuler's work below. >>> Though named differently it seems to plough >>> the same ground. >>> >>> Best, >>> Helmut >>> >>> >>> -------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- >>> Betreff: [Pattern-language] Patterns of Civic Ignorance: An Anti-Pattern Language >>> Datum: Sat, 8 Aug 2015 11:13:54 -0700 >>> Von: Doug Schuler >>> An: pattern-language at scn9.scn.org >>> >>> I'm not sure what I've said about our "anti-pattern language" but I thought I'd share it. Our patterns of oppression, exploitation, inequality, etc. are finally online. >>> >>> >>> What the world doesn't need! >>> >>> Patterns of Civic Ignorance: An Anti-Pattern Language (1st draft) >>> >>> http://publicsphereproject.org/anti-patterns >>> >>> >>> (Feel free to publicize... ) >>> >>> Thanks! >>> >>> >>> Douglas Schuler >>> douglas at publicsphereproject.org >>> Twitter: @doug_schuler @GlobalHunt4ci >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> Public Sphere Project >>> http://www.publicsphereproject.org/ >>> >>> Mailing list ~ Collective Intelligence for the Common Good >>> http://scn9.scn.org/mailman/listinfo/ci4cg-announce >>> >>> Creating the World Citizen Parliament >>> http://interactions.acm.org/archive/view/may-june-2013/creating-the-world-citizen-parliament >>> >>> Liberating Voices! A Pattern Language for Communication Revolution (project) >>> http://www.publicsphereproject.org/patterns/lv >>> >>> Liberating Voices! A Pattern Language for Communication Revolution (book) >>> http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11601 >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> > > Douglas Schuler > douglas at publicsphereproject.org > Twitter: @doug_schuler > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Public Sphere Project > http://www.publicsphereproject.org/ > > Mailing list ~ Collective Intelligence for the Common Good > http://scn9.scn.org/mailman/listinfo/ci4cg-announce > > Creating the World Citizen Parliament > http://interactions.acm.org/archive/view/may-june-2013/creating-the-world-citizen-parliament > > Liberating Voices! A Pattern Language for Communication Revolution (project) > http://www.publicsphereproject.org/patterns/lv > > Liberating Voices! 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