Creating Your Way in the Complicity Universe

Welcome to the open content Universe of Complicity. I guess that also renders Complicit Simplicity as open source, if you consider back stories as a foundational source of writing.

That's right, the Complicity Universe can be the basis for any art work you wish to create -any. Do you want to write space stories, romance novels, or adventure fantasies using these basic ideas - go for it. If paintings or videos are your form of expression - don't let my limitations slow you down. In fact, don't let your expressiveness be controlled by anyone but you.

New themes you create may get worked into this novel as I edit and re-edit the chapters. I luv plot-bunnies -- keep 'em multiplying. Use Squidoo, blogs, or any other format you wish. I'll link to you if I like it. Perhaps we will publish some PDF e-books with the best of it. A mixed media Complicit Universe Anthology will be very cool.

Open Minds, Open Content, and Open Source: create short stories, poems, volumes of nomenclature for sovereign hackers, statuary, film, etc. Enjoy the freedom to express yourself as you wish, with whatever parts of this universe you care to use. It now belongs to you too.


You can use the following concepts for writing your works in the Complicity Universe.



After the millennial depression there was a partial rebound of strong civic commitment. The bounce came too late, technology was already deflating bloated centralized bureaucracies. Voluntary social collaboration displaced government allegiances that were seen as archaic. With the collapse of nation states, principalities and local coalitions emerged. By 2050 an uneasy stability had been achieved. Complicit Simplicity reflects life a century or two later.

* Governance varies from natural enterprise to despotism.

* Los Angeles and San Diego had merged after the diaspora, the principality's name morphing to become LD, then Elldee. It's borders roughly included coast to desert, all of Baja with malleability as far north as Fresno and Santa Cruz. The capital of Elldee is Tijuana.

* Money (notes) are commodity based, and easily transferable - a stable basis for inter-principality trade. Wealth begins with harvesting renewable resources and value adding production. Your money can be denominated as you wish in such commodities as timber or hard red winter wheat. Networked PDAs handle equivalency algorithms for pricing of services and commodities to 24 hour market quotes.

* World wide communications are almost instantaneous (light speed), and highly varied in application.

* Diaspora after a die-off moved a majority of the remaining population from hollow metropolis to interactive rural.

* Societies vary from resilient communities to parasitic gangs. Overlapping zones of influence make determining permanent borders unrealistic.

To change the future you must first consider the future.

As always, the majority of the population remains stable; depending on location they may be subjecting themselves to manipulation, extortion, and brutality.


The Underlying Premise:

Centralized authorities have only a few of tools to adapt for control of their populace. The standards of taxes, regulations, and severe punishments, backed by lots of guns and propaganda, are almost useless against asymmetric freedom attacks. Network defenses are erected by generalists searching a rear view mirror for prior failures - those that hack and intrude are creative specialists adapting to reality's scroll as it unreels.

Bureaucratic authorities can't discern the vitally important and protect just those critical elements of their governance architecture. Supposed overwhelming force is therefore diluted by over application, the costs straining manipulators of public conscience. As a result no network of totalitarian infrastructure has an impenetrable defense.

Most cyber-battles are therefore waged against a sovereign oppressor's purposely isolated systems. The goal is to supplement current data with tools that will be sampled for updating offline stored data. If later triggered by intrusive mining, a landslide of software disruption should result. Of such battles is freedom won.

The closer to equal the abilities of state and citizen, the greater the freedom. Open source relationships are stronger, safer, and vastly more adaptive than hierarchies. Free people are self adjusting, each free element constantly testing any restraints.

In Complicit Simplicity millions of dedicated hackers and crackers write software recipes for instant personal histories; like yeast they ferment the rise of generic people. Hackers understand the code and machines, crackers develop ways to use that knowledge to intrude - both value peer recognition and adherence to their own peculiar set of ethics. Both inter-relate and choose their netcohort teams on the basis of reputation.

That powerful central defenses versus distributed and insular defenders of freedom remains an equal contest is due to an irony. Bureaucratic aggression tends to release ever more potent innovative implementations from those resisting conquest. Oppressive ruling oligopolies will not defer immediate gratification to build a technological lead. Instead they remove a technology based irritant as quickly as possible, instigating a release of dozens of improvements by independent developers with aligned interests.

An added increase to liberty tools is the standard final act of Hackish innovators - the release of all their proprietary tricks as open source code, a basis for further innovation. Each new attack on a resourceful Ragnar Danneskjöld impels further progress in both defensive and offensive measures - attacking salients are cut off, new offensive probes initiated.

Many ethical hackers view themselves as part of a sovereign nation composed of virtual sovereign individuals. Their sovereignty is always subject to attack, hence their border sites are well defended. Their offense reactions against those that attack their domain have a strategy to dismantle their enemy's bureaucratic control systems and free their enemy's subject people.

Productive entrepreneurs also work in this same virtual nation. They may become mercenary freelances, bringing prosperity to societies aggressive at providing an open and biodiverse economic ecosystem. Privacy and well rewarded innovation thwart oppression and inspire necessary progress.

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."
cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead

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"knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind" - Plato

Fulfilled in

"Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them." - Baruch Spinoza

contrast with

"Wisdom and understanding are enthusiastic pursuits rather than an academic record." - Allan Wallace

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Every Crack In the Sidewalk

""Our knowledge is so limited, our abilities seem so inadequate, most people see themselves as small insects.

They cope by being serious about whatever crack in the sidewalk they were born into.

Ignoring limitless potential within a wondrous world, they cling to the security of their limited crack.

Crawl out of the crack, take a few steps down the sidewalk, then decide where you want to fly."

Allan R. Wallace





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