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Help me crowdsource some Yellow solutions: businesses, organizations, and ideas

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I'm feeling out my purpose here, and feel a huge urge to do something yellow. Systemic change, finding solutions to some of the most damaging dominant paradigms.

I'll start:

  • Wikipedia
  • Reddit
    • And anything Aaron Swartz touched for that matter, Creative Commons, etc.
  • Family systems therapy (micro level)
    • and probably psychedelic therapy on a micro level
  • Psychedelic activism/research (MAPS, etc.)
  • ACLU (?)
  • Open source community (Firefox, Linux, etc.)
  • Our Revolution and Bernie Sanders in a lot of ways (?)
  • Certain men's movement organizations
  • The School of Life
  • Actualized.org
  • Crowdfunding and crowdsourcing movement
  • Collective Intelligence Lab at MIT

Ideas:

  • Widescale solutions to media accountability and fact checking (Eric Weinstein has mentioned the need for this).
    • Reader-supported news is a great alternative
    • But it needs to replace the corporate business model if we are to have an informed public
    • So we need advocacy and a plan to create a scientifically oriented, objective, big picture societal media apparatus that informs the public on what is actually going on (climate change, threats of nuclear war, enormous wealth inequality) and gives them avenues to do things about them.
    • Crowdsourcing is a great innovation here; people love to participate in the news, both recording by phone and pontificating on social media
    • Reddit plucked this fruit when it was ripe but is vulnerable to manipulation and could use more structure, accountability and objectivity
    • Basically a crowdsourced, open-source, reader-supported, co-op version of Reddit would be ideal. Perhaps with optional validation of user identity to differentiate between potential bots/trolls vs. those willing to stand publicly for what they believe.
  • Easily accessible critical thinking education and advocacy for it to be implemented in schools

Excited to hear your ideas.

We can even consolidate them into a wiki as we go! A yellow solution to a yellow question :D

 

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