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Rainbow Culture: The Dream, the Mess and the Commons
The first thing many people notice about a Rainbow Gathering is what is "missing". There are no ticket booths, no commercial stages, no vendors selling branded experiences, no cash registers. Thousands of people gather in a forest to create temporary villages and cities to share food, build kitchens, make music, care for each other and then disappear again. The absence of money can seem like a strange fantasy, but the deeper story is that it is not a just a rule, the refusal of commerce was […]https://hamishcampbell.com/rainbow-culture-the-dream-the-mess-and-the-commons/
The Rainbow Lesson: Building Commons Beyond the Market
One of the things missing from conversations about rebuilding radical networks is that we defult to looking first at the technology. The #OMN question is different - What are the social systems that allow alternatives to survive? A useful example comes from the history of the Rainbow Gatherings. To an outsider, the strangest thing about a Rainbow Gathering is likely the hippies, the second is the absence of money. Thousands of people gather in forests, share food, organise care, create […]https://hamishcampbell.com/the-rainbow-lesson-building-commons-beyond-the-market/
There is some talk about recreating radical media networks.
Before we reboot #indymedia or build new altmedia networks, we need some simple, clear understandings of why they failed before.
And I use “simple” and “understandings” deliberately - not “the answer” or one single explanation.
Because the different views of why #indymedia and altmedia failed are not a side issue. They are part of why they failed.
Different groups saw different problems:
Was it technology?
Was it governance?
Was it burnout?
Was it funding?
Was it culture?
Was it the wider shift to the #dotcons?
A reboot cannot ignore tensions. It has to create a bridge between the different lessons, otherwise we rebuild the same problems.
The goal is not to recreate the past.
The goal is to take the useful seeds, compost the failures, and grow something that fits the next phase of the #openweb.
Q: No comments is the way to go, but the concern is that the same moderation fights will just move into the editorial work?
A: The answer is to distribute the editorial process and build the collective on trust.
If publishing power is spread out, there is less of a single gate to fight over.
The mistake is the path of solve social problems by adding more rules, more controls, more moderation systems - creating more sticks for people to pick up and hit each other with.
A healthy #indymedia path needs shared responsibility, open processes and trust between contributors.
The aim is not to control the commons.
The aim is to grow one.
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