Open Source Evolution
- Maayan Keynan
- Jun 9, 2018
- 2 min read
OPEN SOURCE LIVING
Consuming precisely, giving all you have to give, and expecting the same.
In practice, Open Source Living is the way we LIVE our lives ONLINE, and it's based on Open Collaboration principles, which rely on interactions between participants to create a product (or service) of economic value, and making it available to contributors and noncontributors alike.
This practice is no news under no sun, In fact, our virtual world is only taking-after this approach of sources and resources sharing, which in return made it what it is.
The logic behind this is very complex:
Everyone Wins. This means that no one loses.
This means no competition.
And this is why today, even with the Internet of Things, a system like that doesn't work for everyone's benefit, or in most cases, doesn't work at all.
Many of us agree to terms that we don't understand (if we even get to read), and make changes to our lives and to ourselves, just to belong to some policymaker that will do everything to keep us constrained enough to agree to anything.
Our internet relationships aren't exceptional, therefore even in the virtual world, which is literally a box to think outside of, we are still obligated to comply to terms we don't really agree to, or worse, don't understand, just to be getting the chance to be a part of something bigger than us, out of knowing that most of us won't ever live to shutter the glass ceiling of being successful enough to set our own terms.
Sounds like an excuse to not aspiring success?
Think of the self-empowering industry - an industry that is built on the shuttered dreams of those who didn't make it against all odds. By the nature of odds, these are most of us.
Within this industry, competition is vigorous as in any other, and the successful ones are considered legends, which grants them the freedom to stay out of competition - the hardest competition the rest of us will ever lose.
Competition is the result of inferiority feelings. Its outcomes: inferior contestants. In 2018 you don't have to be a CEO to know that inferiority feelings don't motivate anything. You also don't need to be a sociologist to understand society's roll in designing a race which most of us can't win, and sometimes aren't even qualified to take.
But Society is a group of humans that define its characteristics, and like any other aspects of humanity, can and will proceed to the next stage in evolution.
There is no Team in Society
After humanizing competition, developing techniques and strategies to win, worshiping it or its products, teaching the young to win, becoming aware of its damages, developing techniques to self-improve or self-empower (depending on the dictated goal), and now teaching the young to be winners while considering the losers, it's time to just try speaking Different language.
Open-Source Model is nothing new, nor is Open-Source living. It's time to redeem the full benefits of it, which can be done by incorporating logical thinking and personal value to any interaction, with any thing.
Preparing for next step is something we have already accomplished.
Let's act.
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