Record & Reality Manifesto

Civilization acts on records,
or on their absence.

Seven axioms on why that determines whether it prospers — or annihilates itself.

  1. 1. Reality always exceeds its record.
  2. 2. Civilization acts on records, or on their absence (a gap).
  3. 3.
    There are four types of action:
    • (a) extract a record from reality
    • (b) exercise a record in the world
    • (c) inherit a record
    • (d) assume a record, in the absence of one
  4. 4.
    (a) is always good
    (b) can be good or bad
    (c) is good or bad by the fidelity of the record
    (d) is always bad
  5. 5. Technology increases civilization's capacity to act.
  6. 6. Technology increases the number of actors.
  7. 7. Therefore: exponential instances and consequences of (a)–(d). Some combinations annihilate civilization; some prosper it. PINGBACK exercises a sub-combination toward the combination itself — toward a more knowing civilization.