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GIVEGET NATION LAUNCHES “HUMAN VALUES ECONOMYâ€
William said Sep 26, 2006, 12:47 AM:
World’s Unlimited Surplus Capacity Organizes in New Internet Bank for Free to All
First there was the Internet, connecting people everywhere. Then came eBay, creating millions of entrepreneurs. Next, Amazon, cut out the middle man. And more recently, the Google phenomenon, organizing the world's information.
And now, there is GiveGet Nation (www.givegetnation.net), whose founders say, “organizes the world's unlimited surplus product, labor, intelligence and spiritual capital and makes it available to everybody for free. Think of us as the National Human Values Trust.”
GiveGet Nation (www.givegetnation.net) is an innovative, Internet-based, non-profit social enterprise “designed to improve the quality of life for everyone, set the world free from scarcity and save the Earth through synergy,” say founders Timothy Wilken, MD and William Shanley.
“GiveGet Nation is the world’s first post-scarcity, person-to-person human values bank and economy,” according to Mr. Shanley, a media producer, living in New Haven, Connecticut. “Ours is a virtual new world and economic order that engages both quantitative and qualitative dimensions of existence, just like Mother Nature. Giving and getting are really two sides of the same coin – the on-going, universal process of free exchange called life. Our new culture of free exchange is based on values and principles that can’t be quantified, privatized or traded on Wall Street. We're beyond money; and yet we’re all over it. In GiveGet Nation, everyone can finally participate fully in life because gifts and wishes are our capital for creation.”
In GiveGet Nation, people can Give, Get, Share: Goods, Actions, Knowing and Spirit in an infinite number of choices and combinations. Share a babysitter or lawnmower. Volunteer for Katrina. Provide expertise. Find help for anything. Express and self-create. Adopt a family internationally. Mentor a young entrepreneur. Gift or wish for goods whose value is beyond money, like those special items you’ve been storing, don’t want to sell, and would prefer to gift to someone who values them the way you do. “Learn to live more freely. The only limit is your own imagination,” say Messrs. Wilken and Shanley.
In describing the science of GiveGet Nation, co-founder, Timothy Wilken, a Carmel, California physician and synergy scientist, said, “From a scientific standpoint, GiveGet Nation is a gifting tensegrity, we call Giftegrity. A tensegrity is the exhibited strength that results when push and pull have a win-win relationship with each other. Tension is continuous and compression discontinuous, such that continuous pull is balanced by equivalently discontinuous pushing forces. We apply that principle to giving and receiving. Buckminster Fuller explained that these fundamental phenomena are ‘not opposites, but complements that could always be found together.’ GiveGet Nation’s economy runs on the power of the win-win relationship between desires to give and get. That’s why we call it a Giftegrity.”
“No matter how rich or poor, everyone has gifts and wishes and genius to share,” Mr. Shanley says. “Think of us as the gifts and wishes network where miracles happen when people’s values match.”
“Values are the basis of all moral, political and economic behavior.”
– Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motor Cycle Maintenance
Human values like love, freedom, joy, creativity, growth, abundance and values fulfillment are examples of the primary sources of meaning upon which all goods, services and money are based. Human values are what people are really after in life; they are beyond measure and reside in an unlimited, qualitative domain that bridges both subject and object.
GiveGet Nation is the common ground for human values to connect and grow. Here’s how: when people post gifts, wishes and shares, they unfold their values through language in their story, descriptions, and emails, and attract others. And when people connect, that's when the magic really happens. The wonderful thing about human values, the more you share them, the stronger and more attractive they become. Dr. Wilken explains, “It’s like the relationship between a performer and an audience. A feeling bond is created that empowers the experience and performance for each.”
“The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.” –Mahatma Gandhi
Join the freedom movement, Mr. Shanley urges. “Experience our new world of sharing. Help evolve GiveGet Nation. Let’s create ‘a world that works for everyone.’ That’s our Golden Rule.”
“In GiveGet Nation gifts and wishes meet love and gratitude. So visit GiveGet Nation. Become a citizen. Read Marilyn Ferguson’s inspiring stories. Watch our movies. Post gifts, wishes and shares. It doesn't matter which. All are fuel for our synergic, human values dynamo,” says Dr. Wilken. “Unleash your spirit. Change the world. It will cost you nothing you can’t afford.”
All transactions use Whuffie, a post-scarcity, reputation-based currency voted by the community invented by science fiction writer Cory Doctorow. The greater your Whuffie, the greater your reputation for integrity in the GiveGet National Values Trust, and the greater your wealth in human values – the primary sources of all moral, political and economic behavior.
“Enhance the universal dance,” says Mr. Shanley. “Help yourself. Dream a new future. Become your ideal self while helping others at the same time. So come on, Earth Seeds, let's Save Mother Earth and bring love, joy and abundance to all! Spirit’s calling out to us: ‘Give all you have to love and you will be all things.’ You might just learn to live free.”
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