I belive in the power of many autonomous hands.  I firmly beleive that the efforts of many peers, working out of a desire to do so and not out of involentary management, is the best way to make the most effective use of skills.

Eisenhower said in his farewell speech :

"Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been over shadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields."

This was true in the 50's, and is CONSIDERABLY more true today.  Video games, cars, and computers are no longer designed and built by individuals but teams of people with a wide assortment of skill portfolios coordinating on objectives.

The type of collectivism that I beleive in is a collective of free individual volenteers who are able to coordinate themselves in a way that requires absolutely no administration. 

Most skills are learned without the knowledge in how that skill will practically interoperate with other disciplines.  These gaps mean that people will continue requiring management in their skill application in order to provide coordination services.

In the future I beleive that people will learn not only the skillsets that they are passionate about but will also be responsible for learning how to use their skills in a team environment. 

I have faith that in the future humans will learn to work in groups effectively without sacrificing their individualism.

Oh yeah it's EXCITING to live in the endtimes.

End of what?  Time?  nay!

End of the world?  Hell no.

End of the human race?  Naw.

It's the end of existant culture!  

We are in the orgiastic last throws of the accumulated culture of humanities previous history.  We are the last few dredges who didn't have our stem cells saved at birth.  We are the end of the unconnected world.  Those who laugh at people for not 'understanding their technology' will stare at their nanogenenticengineered organic video screens that only a dozen people in the world truely understand and know how silly they where.   

Portable devices will become so easy to use they function seamlessly with the day to day lives of humanity.  Full body health scans will happen dozens of times a day without invasiveness.  The nitrogen content in the air and water around 'em will change according to the needs of the populace.  Energy will be beamed down from solar satellites or harvested in other ways that solve massive problems all in one swoop.

The fucked up and hodge podge system that exists socially will not survive the intentional creation of the next generations of social change.  People will actually hammer out what their sociocultural expectations are and be able to enforce them.  Walking up to a group of strangers and making a hand sign that is universally understood as 'nice to meet you i am going to listen in and hopefully join you guys in enjoyable discourse' will be possible!

It's such a great time to be alive! 

I don't care what you or your friends think is cool.  I can pretend to if I need to, but I just can't honestly care about current flavors and fads.  I will not accept being tested for my knowledge of such trends unless it is required by operations.  

I certainly will not silently slink off if I feel I have been met, judged, and blown off for not conforming to some vauge social cage.   

With friendly competition i can gauge how I stand on things.  Am I really good at something?  Am I really bad at something?  If I am trying to identify where I really sit I need to compare skills with other humans and figure out how I preform compared to other people.  LOTS of other people.

Nothing makes me wanna push harder than someone else pushing harder.

Apathy, when viewed as a statistically modelable trend, is so permiated into the world that it actually seems to have tangible characteristics. 

The beast of apathy can be studied like a real tangible thing, and by learning it's face we can learn the face of the greatest foe we all collectively have.  Once we know this enemy and it's breeding patterns we can hopefully curtail it as a meme before it takes effective root..... for those who are now children and haven't been induated....

for us i fear it is too late, sadly.

One I had in my possession the following object.

5 small black beans

1 small baggie

1 staple

1 card stock card with instructions

The object was labeled very plainly "Magic invisibility beans".  The instructions where very occult in nature and involved a human head and very expensive brandy.

Myself and another agent where able to clear over 10/hr selling magic beans to passerbys.  I gave a dozen of these items to a small child who asked me for money.  He said he made over 20 bucks and thanked me when next I saw him.

In the midwest heirloom class furnititure is somewhat more common than it is on the West coast.  Sometimes this stuff shows up in auctions and rummage sales.  Many places in the midwest will have rummage sale days for an entire town or area.  These are exceptionally good times for hunting out high quality antiques.

Antiques are usually very bulky items so it would probably be best to ensure item sale before shipment.  This may mean that a storage unit needs to be had somewhere centerally located in the midwest for agents to hold purchased goods unti they are ready for mass long-distance transit.

Door to door work is hard without having a few tangible services ready to sell.  A good service is to offer to create complete system restore disk sets for a users machine.  Educate them on the joys of backups and create the dvd disk sets using your mobile kit for them to restore to if they need later.  This is a good ice breaker sale and is non-invasive to the users machine.

Great for leaving a business card, easy as pie to do, and can range from 10-200 dollars.  Some unscrupulous agents are known to always have a screensaver on disk that shows an old school text application with a really slow progress bar on it for 'per hour' jobs.

Use a projector to project a faint image of the mother mary onto the side of a building.  You can do this on a large building during the day if you hit a shade side.  Watch the crowd for someone to stop and notice it.  Allow that person to excitedly point it out to one battery or individual.  Stop the broadcast of the image before there can be another wave. 

That'll show someone something.

I read a story once when I was a child.  In this story nations no longer risked civillian casualties in warfare... and the nations of this future would no longer support their own armies and the financial burden that defence was.

So what happened was they allowed private mercenary armies to form.  Nations would hire armies in secret and on the appointed day the armies would meet up on an uninhabited planet and battle it out.  They had a wide assortment of more-or-less nonleathal weapons and they followed a strict law on weaponry and combat rules.  After conditions where met one army or another would be declared a victor.  The initial demande between the warring nations where then analyzed and the victor got whatever spoils they had demanded.

We could use Antartica or the open seas for such a thing.  We could have it all as a prme time series.  People could veiw their favorite troupes as sports teams.

We need an activist olympics!

We could identify the many different forms of common activism that exist.  Flyering and talking and recruiting and fundraising and so on.  We could create metrics for identifying how successful someone is at each such task and give away awards for the acheivements of each activist.

The entire process should be grueling and should be a chance for overacheivers to grow their reputations for the tasks that they excel at.  The entire ordeal should also create tangible positive change in the world at large.  Everything should be legal.

It would be REALLY fun to randomize the campaigns and cities that each participant is active in.  It would also be nice to make sure participants are in foreign territory without their natural contact network. 

Then end of events festival would be the SHIT.  Could even be burning man....