Collective Intelligence and Collective Action

One person up against corruption and injustice will find it harder than when a whole community gets together and works toward the same goal.

The rugged individual is a myth of the modern day. You cannot even open a can of tomatoes without thousands of hands involved in the can’s creation.

This is the importance of community, unions, mass protests, and revolution.

Together, we can change things, move what feels impossible, and enable a more equal playing field.

Collective intelligence occurs when we have ecologies of synergy. My brilliance, added to yours, is exponentially greater than when we work in isolation.

The issue of collective intelligence and collective action that is rarely considered is the terms of collaboration. Who benefits from the collaboration? Who participates, and how is the participation recognised? Who creates the value? Those who invest money, those who do the collective intelligence, or both?

The people and organisations currently profiting from the status quo are happy to let the terms of collaboration go unquestioned. Squeeze the brilliance out of people, and then extract all the value, leaving those who generated the brilliance scraps. All the while pointing to the risks they made to do so. Or the risks the investor took to do so. These same people are terrified of collective action, for they know its power to turn the tables of accumulation.

People, we can do better. We can end the extraction and exploitation of our current innovative laboratories. We can stand against the ever-greater divide between those who have and those who do not.

There can be shared risk, shared responsibility and shared reward.

Synergy, collective intelligence, and collaborative action are required if we want a world that works for Earth and all its creatures.

But we must also get the terms and agreements in place.

In Syntropic World, we have two powerful tools to do exactly this.

The Synergistic Audit enables a whole-system account of inputs and outputs by all participants, never allowing one domain, like money, to dominate another domain, like creativity.

The Syntropic Trust Manifesto sets the terms and agreements, enabling ecologies of trust and synergistic collaboration.

Both the Synergistic Audit and the Trust Manifesto are the containers that enable brilliant, thriving synergy, ensuring our purpose for being together collectively holds its shape and integrity, against all odds.

If this is the world you want to create, with others, I invite you to consider joining us for the next Syntropic Foundations Masterclass. https://syntropic.world/masterclass/

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