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JB West, East & Michael are making violence based 'Change' suggestions, all from the Top-Down,, with the illusion of recapturing the reigns of institutional power. Institutional 'change' is to be made by a portion of the population, "Who know better", when in fact they are hopelessly divided among themselves over 1000 issues. Institutional top-down change pronouncements represent an 'exogenous' (Latin 'other-generated') oligarch-captured population who are trained institutionally to think in 2-dimensional Linear ways about the world we live in. i.e. "The medium is the message." by Marshall McLuhan describes indoctrination of mind by the hierarchal processes of linear boxed education, media, jobs, military & religion we've been trained in. People aren't thinking CULTURALLY of the base 'fractal' ('fraction, multiplier, building-blocks, where-the-part-contains-the-whole') component of human psychology & sociology.

ALL HUMANITY's 'INDIGENOUS' (L 'self-generating') ancient 'economic' (Greek 'oikos' = 'home' + 'namein' = 'care-&-nurture') culture organized locally so as to be part of inclusive welcoming 'community' (L 'com' = 'together' + 'munus' = 'gift-or-service'). Our indigenous ancestors & 1st Nations here organized livelihood in all aspects of society & economy in the ~100 (50-150) person Multihome-Dwelling-Complex (eg. Longhouse-apartment, Pueblo-townhouse & Kanata-village). Example Asterix & Obelix in Gaul as Celtic peoples of France. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/e-history/3-Celtic-Europe

This 'fractal' ('fraction, multiplier, building-block, where-the-part-contains-the-whole') Multihome organization of strengths makes people strong at every level of human society. Multihomes are worth many millions of dollars, each then multiplied as strong components to neighbourhood, village, city, region, nation, confederacy, continent & hemispheric economic councils.

Today 70% of people still live in Multihomes within an average 32 dwelling-units = ~100 people. 20% of Multihome-dwellers are extended-families living intentionally in proximity for social & economic collaboration providing trillions of $ worth of reciprocal collective care, goods & services/ year to the Turtle-Island (N. America) economy /year as its largest essential economic sector. The Multihome & neighbourhood are innate to human nature, existing in our time, but without knowledge (amnesia) of all humanity's ancient heritage. Multihomes are exactly where medicine should be situated & group-organized as part of internal contractual 'community' (L 'com' = 'together' + 'munus' = 'gift-or-service') agreement. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/relational-economy/extending-our-welcome-participatory-multihome-cohousing

DO-WE-KNOW-WHO-WE-ARE-? http://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/structure/9-do-we-know-who-we-are is a web-based Community-Economy software enabling those 70% of all populations still culturally connected in the Multihome to:

A) CATALOGUE local individual & business for: talents, goods, services, resources & dreams. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/home/membership

B) MAP local proximal collaborative relations for complementary economic concertation

C) ACCOUNT for collective contributions, buying, selling & co-investment. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/relational-economy

D) COMMUNICATE such as formally through COUNCIL PROCESS or Both-Sides-Now, Equal-time, Recorded & Published dialogues for reaching formal agreement together as well as conflict-resolution. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/structure/both-sides-now-equal-time-recorded-dialogues

Mohandas Gandhi learned in adopting India's 'Swadeshi' (Hindi 'indigenous' aka 'self-sufficiency') program as the economic engine for achieving 'Swaraj' (H. 'Self-rule') from 1917-47 that when people focused on implementing India's ancient community & ecological practices, their own, family & community livelihood greatly benefitted. When India achieved just 5% of indigenous transformation for food, shelter, clothing, warmth & health, they had leveraged to diminish British empire top-down extractive & exploitive foreign economy. British, US, Canadian, Australian & New-Zealand companies being so hierarchal & inefficient went bankrupt by the 100s, returning significant control back to India. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/structure/3-economic-memory

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