Shih Ho & Ko are hexagrams of the I-Ching, meaning "Reform" (Shih Ho) — otherwise known as "Biting Through", expressing the trigrams fire on thunder — and "Revolution" (Ko) — aka "Molting", expressing lake on fire — respectively.
In these names one can already see the implication of hard work ("biting through") — where reformation of that which is flawed can certainly require considerable effort — and transformation ("molting") — where we must shed the old skin to reveal the new, and certainly an implication also of "letting go" of the old is here as well. These concepts represent my inspiration and objectives — ie: always look improvement both internally and externally (though it's a bit more complex than that).
More specifically, these concepts remind us that to solve any sufficiently complex problem, we must take two approaches simultaneously:The solutions you seek may simply be writing itself — ie: you hire me to do some technical or creative writing — and, while I feel confident, with my extremely diverse background (both academically and professionally), to solve just about any problem of any kind, I will however endeavour to forward you to a suitable 3rd party, should your requirements be beyond my ability to provide, for whatever reasons.
I have an uncanny ability to predict things, often years or decades in advance, which seems to come from some part of my mind, observing everything I hear, see, or read, which then occasionally makes a protest inside my mind, telling me that something isn't right. While it can take anywhere from minutes to decades to figure out what my mind was telling me, I find that my brain usually does come up with the answer (eventually). The identification of the problem seems to be largely intuitive and instantaneous, but then proving what I intuitively feel, and developing a working solution, is the part that takes the most time. This ability seems to be the emergent combinant result of my personal, professional, and academic life experiences.
I have done over 120 (? lost count) jobs over the course of my half century, which gives me insight into all levels and areas of business operations, across a great many industries, and my 20 years combined formal and informal tertiary level studies and research — across law, politics, economics, philosophy, logic, maths, modelling, sciences, and engineering — so that I can quickly adapt knowledge and experience from one area to another (from first principles of logic etc.), to see the whole integrated picture of business operations; thus to spot errors, flaws, and other issues, often being the things everyone else missed.
If you really want to know the details, it is far too lengthy a career history to go into, suffice to say there has been about a decade worth of office jobs across sales, customer service, and other professional services, a little more than that across labouring and technical jobs in entertainment, events, construction, demolition, and industrial maintenance, plus distribution, logistics, and warehousing. This is by no means the sum total of my life experience, which also includes work in hospitality, entertainment (on stage/camera), agriculture, tourism, and volunteer work.
My lack of participation in the imbibing of the Idiocracy "electrolytes" everyone else seems to have been drinking — which has driven western society down a very dark and stupid path (and which any rational person would have avoided like the plague, hence I did) — combined with many years of watching others make mistakes and cause problems that were entirely predictable & avoidable, has taught me that:So, what all this means for you, is not to expect me to say things that will please you, in fact, just to be safe, assume I am going to piss you off ... but, would you rather have this honesty and the benefits that come with it, or some idiot playing you to make you feel comfortable, while they rip you off? I only want to work with clients who are mature enough to agree with what I am saying, because as far as I am concerned, everyone else is more trouble than they are worth.
I didn't actually attend university until my late 20s, but by which time — though more intellectually and psychologically ready for it — the system itself had become a joke in many regards, and it was entirely unsuited to the needs of people like myself. I had no interest in just "getting a degree", and to the contrary, my reason for being there — surprise surprise, and perhaps HERESY!!! — was to LEARN. Now, you'd think this should have gained me some kind of extra respect and attention from the institution — given that most kids fresh out of high school have no idea why they're really there, and many wish they weren't — but to the contrary, I was essentially punished for it.
It was my own vision and goals I was primarily concerned with, not getting a piece of paper, nor impressing others, getting a job, or creating a career path ... what I wanted, was to understand the science behind the questions I had been asking all my life so far, and to be able to figure out solutions to the problems I had been stumped by. I did try to convince myself I was there for the usual things — because that's what all the social pressure was telling me I should think — but the reality I had to admit, was that I would never fit into the boxes society had prepared for me.
In addition to studies across 4 universities and various other institutions, I did a great deal of my own studies and research either in a public library, from books at home, or later on the internet (moreso after about the year 2000), much of which was motivated by my ever growing obsession with the quantification of ecological and social justice and sustainability (see Personal History).
I never actually completed a degree, despite being mistaken for a senior professor by PhD candidates, being mistaken for a PhD candidate by professors, and being mistaken for a fully qualified doctor by medical students — which arguably shouldn't have been possible, since I had never even been enrolled in a medical degree, much less completed one — and while on the one hand it was disappointing not to graduate, that wasn't actually my goal. This failure was in part caused by the aforementioned mismatch between my personal academic objectives, and the way the system is designed (including how it has devolved over the years), but it was also due to the total lack of adequate financial support for students, and when your funding runs out — even when the government admits they are desperate for people in the very fields you're studying — that's the end of it.
So since this time, all my further studies have been self-funded and self-taught, using mostly only those resources that are freely available, or just figuring things out by trial and error, which unfortunately means my projects progress much more slowly than I could otherwise develop them.
I was raised in western Victoria (Australia) in the early 1970s by two doctors — not rich ones, but honest ones — and while western trained, they became involved (from at least as early as the late 1970s) in alternative / complementary / holistic / natural / preventative / traditional healthcare and medicine — and the reason they became involved in all this, was partly due to my health issues as a kid, precisely because of the failures of western medicine to deal with such health issues effectively (or in some cases, at all), and because of the corruption of the western healthcare system, which has now become a joke; this unfunny joke being demonstrated by the failure of anyone in that system to stand up and call out the CV19 'scamdemic' narrative a fraud, when it was (from my perspective) the single most obvious fraud of any kind in the entire global history of fraud.
ASIDE: Further, where that narrative was in many respects literally the opposite of how health and disease actually work — which no medically & scientifically competent person should need explained to them — some of these so-called "health professionals", not only failed to protest it (apparently for fear of their jobs - a lie I will reveal next), but also actively participated in implementing the fraud. Well, you don't get to claim you were aware of the fraud but said nothing because you feared for your job, where you actively participated in administering the fraudulent 'medications' and 'treatments', which resulted in the death and injury of so many people, because had you been aware of the fraud, you could easily have predicted this outcome, and you would have had nothing to do with a campaign of mass murder. Besides which, you should read the Nuremburg defence.
My father in his later years developed a hobby investigating corruption and fraud in medical science and practice. I had many interesting conversations with him on these and related topics, such the very last time I spoke to him (a matter of weeks before he passed away), regarding the complete failure of orthodox chemo/radio-therapy (which has only about a 2% cure rate), as a treatment for cancer. Unfortunately he passed away before the start of the scamdemic, and was unable to help debunk it.
We also to some extent discussed geopolitical history and matters of the world, as I was also fortunate to do with several other influences in my early life, and it was (in part) through these conversations, that I eventually developed my 'heretical' attitude toward Australian society and western society in general. Which is not to say there is nothing I like about western society, moreso that I have watched over 50 years as most of the good bits have been undermined or destroyed utterly by the fascist dickheads we have as 'leaders' in both the private and public sectors, and perhaps more disappointingly, as many regular (brainwashed) folk cheered them on.
I would argue on this point, that we (westerners) have become captives, hostages, and slaves, not free people; I would further argue that our so-called 'leaders' are more accurately named our captors and slave masters, and just a bunch of useless bigoted fascistic narcissistic know-nothing parasitic dickheads, who would serve more value to the world as compost. In my opinion, they aren't a true leader's arsehole, and couldn't collectively outwit a twig in a debate.
I was indeed fortunate that I had a great many good influences in my early life to make up for all the bad ones (which were many), and it was only thanks to this and my own determination to know the truth, that I managed to deprogramme myself from the myriad measures implemented by western 'leaders' to brainwash their societies, and turn everyone into mindless consumers. The downside of this awareness is that it alienated me from the culture and society into which I had been born, the cold comfort corollary of which is the saying:"It is not a sign of a healthy mind to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society"— and I to take some comfort in that for sure, though I wish I didn't have to.
While I was born here in Australia, I do not see myself as 'Australian' any longer, because this country and its culture has failed me at pretty much every single turn, and has become a willing toady of US imperialism (which no decent human being can knowingly support). Besides which, Australia is just as much an unlawful occupation force, based on fraud, genocide, and land-theft, as the USA, Canada, and Israel, and the so-called "law" enforced here, is itself a legal fraud, and I want no part of it.
ASIDE: Australia, for those of you who don't know, is a country which — like the USA, CANADA, 'Israel' (aka occupied Palestine: notice in the article linked, the Israeli use of a similar legal fraud to Australia's "Terra Nullius", in their "Absentee Property Law", in which they push you off your land, murder you if you don't leave, and then claim your land once you're gone), and to some degree New Zealand (though unlike others, the Maori people got a treaty) — is based on invasion, genocide, land-theft, and in Australia's case the fraudulent "Terra Nullius" argument.
I was born of this land, my flesh and bones are made of the soil of this continent, and I do love the natural world of the continent known as Terra Australis ... BUT ... I really want nothing to do with the culture here anymore, excepting the possibility of helping to cure it of its insanity at some point in the future.
School here was an intellectually debilitating and psychologically corrupting experience in many respects, an example of this being where — in the offical national curriculum for the subject 'Australian History' in high school — we were taught that:"Australia is the only country in the history of the world to be settled peacefully."— I kid you not, this is a direct quote from the text book used at our high school in the 1980s (can you now imagine how the Israelis got so brainwashed?). No mention of the frontier wars, no mention of the genocide, land-theft, rape, slavery etc., no mention of the Stolen Generation, no mention of the "White Australia Policy" — all of it completely and conveniently white-washed out of history.
In my pre-teens I developed an interest in the metaphysical, mystical, and supernatural. While this was partly borne out of the naivety of youth — and also due to an early rejection of religion — I freely admit that much of what I encountered was quite frankly bullshit, but there was also a great deal of value on this path, and while that value wasn't properly realised until I later took up an interest in formal academic logic, maths, philosophy, and sciences, all of which nonetheless, combined to develop my problem solving abilities.
So, it is fair to say I am a heretic, and while we are at it, I will also describe myself as an anarchist in the truest sense of the word — meaning that:ASIDE: most people mistakenly believe that the word 'anarchy' is synonymous with 'chaos', but this is not the case at all — though admittedly, some forms of anarchy could result in chaos, this isn't the only possible outcome — because the etymology of the word is from the ancient Greek 'anarkhos' meaning "without rulers" ... in other words, to be an anarchist is to be free. For this reason, my work over the past 30+ years has focused on anarchic systems, which is similar in concept to the 'decentralised systems' of the blockchain behind cryptocurrencies and other decentralised technologies like peer to peer file sharing. This work is a way of achieving societal balance by way of systems that are based on principles of logic maths and science, but unbiased by people's opinions, and they are a way of influencing behaviour without having to dictate or enforce the behaviour — ie: people are free to do as they will, but they are guided by these anarchic systems to behave in a manner congruent with a functional healthy society.It was this rejection of the mainstream, which set me on the path to what I eventually discovered, and it all began with questions I started asking myself in my late teens — one of which questions in particular was the most important:
"What would it take to create a completely ecologically and socially friendly and sustainable civilisation, which at no scale would ever break, from the individual, all the way through families, groups, and populations, up to an interplanetary and possibly even multi-sentient-species-wide civilisation?"— and this question became an obsession, because I held myself to a very high standard, not accepting anything uncertain as a solution, in fact, actively trying to break every proposed solution I came up with, such that a decade later, I still hadn't figured it out (because nothing lived up to the standards I set myself).
These high standards left me stuck, unable to solve the bigger-picture problem (about civilisation as a whole); sure I could invent more efficient systems of transportation, education, distribution and so on, but none of these inventions got to the heart of the root causation, and all of them were subject or vulnerable to sabotage. So, for about a decade I pondered, researched, and experimented with different ideas, always failing to a solution that lived up to the standards I had set.
So it was at this point, in my late 20s or early 30s (I do not remember precisely when), that I ran into a guy I hadn't seen since childhood, and while I had been predominantly studying Law, Politics, Maths, Sciences, and Engineering, he had been specifically studying Ecological Systems Accounting / Modelling (see the work of the late Howard Odum), which is based on the laws of thermodynamics.
Our friendship developed rapidly over the years, and we enjoyed educating each other on our respective fields of interest, and discussing big ideas, so it was part of my explanation to him to discuss what I had been trying to do in the field of alternative anarchic systems of government (economic, ecological, and political). But the real progress came because of a question he asked me, and which remains to this day the single most fascinating question I have ever been asked.
Having spent quite some time patiently trying to explain thermodynamics to me, and how it related to his post-grad studies in ecological systems modelling, he turned to me one day as we sat at a cafe in Melbourne's inner north suburb of Carlton, leaned back in his chair and asked:"Trevor, can we quantify justice?"— and to this day, two decades later, I can still see him sitting there, I still hear the tone in his voice as he asked the question, and I still remember the feeling of excitement, as I instantly knew the answer was going to be yes.
I didn't immediately know how, but within two weeks I was able to come back to him with both the answer 'yes', plus a rudimentary (binary) example of doing it, and which over the years since then, evolved into a more granular ability to quantify justice with great detail, and from a non-species-biased perspective.
Everything else I want to tell you, whether it be through comedy or some other more serious project, has something potentially to do with this obsession, because all possible projects can deliver something to this vision for the future, and which relates back to that original question I asked myself in my teens.
My projects mostly stem from a desire to fundamentally change the foundational bases of civilisation, in order to solve many problems by identifying the common root causation — ie: don't waste time trying to solve every individual problem, as this is like the story of the child putting its finger in the holes in a dyke, trying to stop the water leaks (you plug one, but another opens), instead, find the common root cause, solve that, and all other problems just solve themselves over time — and this is why I tell people that it took me the first decade just to figure out the right questions to ask, the second decade to solve the problems, and the third to figure out how to actually implement those solutions.
Now, into the 4th decade of this work, I am trying to figure out how to get the resources I need, and on terms that do not undermine or sabotage the whole purpose of doing it (which the typical expectations of venture capital & private equity investment would do). This is also part of the motivation for my current work: to raise the money required to focus on the vision, yet doing something towards it, and which is not too much of a distraction from it.
I did at one point start writing an academic treatise on the topic of my vision, but this work became difficult to wrap my own mind around, and without a budget, it was intellectually exhausting; it is a testament to my stubbornness that I didn't give up sooner. I realised such a work would have a limited audience anyway — as demonstrated by Principia Mathematica, which I haven't read either — requiring me to educate my audience, help them deprogramme themselves, and thus be capable of both understanding it as well as debunking their own objections.
Even the most intelligent and 'well educated' people in society are not only quite frequently biased, but they break the very rules of logic they claim to uphold as they express those biases, and I for one can do without that frustration, hence the desire to get them to debunk their own objections.
I started converting this academic book series into a science fiction screenplay, and it is this concept I would love to focus on, but it too requires more resources than I have. The story tells the story of itself (the story) being told, and aims to develop in the real world — simultaneous to the story-telling — both the systems required to tell the story (in the way I want to tell it), and many other concepts depicted in that story. So for example: if the story tells of a business concept, that business concept would be started in the real world, and people engaging with the story are able to get involved in that side project (or any other).
So what begins as a custom designed story-telling engine, evolves over time into a more generalised project collaboration development and resource allocation framework, such that all projects can be undertaken, each beginning with a story (about itself), and contributing back to the larger vision.
Over the course of my life, I have conceptually developed a great many things — everything from business, educational, and governmental systems, through to electomechanical devices, and software concepts — but unfortunately I never had the resources required to implement these concepts, nor could I find anyone willing to offer such resources on terms I found remotely acceptable; so in addition to current projects, there are literally dozens of others waiting in the background (see list).
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As you may comprehend from some of the project descriptions below, all these projects are directly or indirectly linked via an umbrella vision, and they all play at least some small part in bringing that vision about (one way or another). But the core aspect of this connection, is the link between the following things:
NOTE: while all projects feedback data, capabilities, and resources into that evolution and growth, only the core system projects are critical to it.
ASIDE: as perhaps you can tell from the name, this concept was in part inspired by the writing of science fiction author Isaac Asimov, and named after his seminal epic Foundation.
In many respects, I see my vision as an implementation of the 'vault' created by character Hari Seldon in that story, but for purposes well beyond what Asimov proposed, and vastly different to the manner in which this element (along with many others) of the story have been butchered by the current TV series based on his work — which only serves to demonstrate that either the script writers had NFI what Asimov was talking about, and/or they had no respect for it, perhaps even intentionally sabotaging his original message, to prevent people getting any ideas.
Tyromancy: divination of the future by examining cheese.
Drunken Boxing: a form of kung fu, being unpredictably intoxicated.
Drunken Tyromancy: psychic martial art involving wine, cheese, & catharsis.
The Drunken Tyromancer is an alter ego of sorts, to go with the show name Drunken Tyromancy, which I intend to use for the purpose of comedic catharsis on the topics of culture, history, politics, philosophy, science, and other things about life in general, while living on a planet run by ideologically insane imbeciles.
The idea of "predicting the future with ch-ease", is to suggest that we only need to get drunk enough or hallucinating from excessive cheese consumption, to imagine the next level of insanity our illustrious "leaders" have in store for us, but with a cheesy sense of humour, we may at least be able to laugh at it.
The science fiction screenplay project is an expression of my academic obsession — ie: my work over the past 30+ years on the quantification of ecological and social justice and sustainability, via the principles of ecological systems modelling and thermodynamics, as a basis for non-species-biased, non-property/trade/currency-based, and non-hierarchical (anarchic) economics justice and politics, transformed from academic work into sci-fi storyline — and it is a project that works closely in conjunction with the following project (the Storytelling Engine), because in order to tell this sci-fi story properly, it needs to be done in a very particular way, which requires systems that do not yet exist, and so I had to invent them.
The purpose of this story is indeed in part a means to develop those systems, because the story itself tells of the creation of those systems, and is told through and in conjunction with the development of those systems, such that the audience is able to get involved with the evolution of those systems — and is by default involved though their feedback as an audience member and their interaction with the storyline, even if they do not get involved beyond that.
The Story Telling Engine project is a precursor to the full blown Project Collaboration Development and Resource Allocation Framework, which is an integral compontent of the vision of the Open Empire Foundation project. The idea being to produce at first, a simple story-telling engine, as partly decentralised software — using something similar to the Interplanetary File System(IPFS) blockchain based technology — to allow story based projects to go forward, build an audience, gain collaborators, and achieve funding, all prior to completion, without any fear of censorship, and with various other interactive, administrative (back-end), and business features evolving over time.
Ideally I would have loved for this to have achieved funding a long time ago, so that I could use it for the Drunken Tyromancy audiovisual podcast (see below), and for the sci-fi screenplay based on my academic work. I did try learning everything myself, so that I could realise my ideas into computer code; but when I looked at it from an implementation point of view, I suddenly realised I'd have to build a home network capable of simulating a WAN (Wide Area Network) for the purposes of testing — particularly around cybersecurity, which is a whole other learning curve — in addition to learning multiple coding languages, for everything from websites to applications, and at a later stage, lower level systems (I won't go into the technical details here) ... and suffice to say, I was struggling just to wrap my brain around explaining everything to an audience, and giving people a crash course in philosophy, logic, maths, and sciences, so they could understand it, let alone having to do all the rest of it as well, and all on a budget of nothing.
What I hope to happen via this upcoming comedy podcast (above), is to gain an audience and support to build the next step and then the next, until I can afford to hire certain people with very specialised skills, to work with me full-time developing the 'core engine' of the software required to fulfil the greater vision. The evolution of the storytelling engine into the project collaboration development and resource allocation framework — plus other related and integrated systems of the vision — would then occur over time, with each project undertaken feeding back data capabilities and resources into that evolutionary process.
The short version is that any possible project needs to begin with a story, even if the project itself is not a story, you need to tell the story of the project in order to gain funding, collaborators, and so on; so by first developing what I see as the perfect story-telling engine, this more easily evolves into the perfect generalised project collaboration development and resource allocation framework.
However, when you talk to people, they seem to think all this already exists, and quite frankly, I have seen what is out there, and most of it is really rudimentary compared to what I have in mind, and none of it is set up in such a way as to be capable of becoming what I want — not just from a technical perspective, but also due to the limitations imposed by legal licensing of other people's software (even when open source), and various other matters that are vital to the long term vision this is all about — so I need to build this from scratch.
So as each story is told in the story-telling engine, and as new functions are added, eventually this becomes a more generic project platform, with a variety of functions and features to ensure that nobody collaborating on any project gets any more or less of a share of the success than they deserve, and nobody needs to be a good negotiator to get this basic guarantee.
NOTE: this blockchain architecture has NOTHING to do with cryptocurrencies and NFTs, but is instead an architecture designed to store and calculate other information, then provide that information (freely) to all people in the world, such as to bring about the changes of the greater vision relating to alternative and anarchic systems of economics justice and politics.— and this architecture comes with a completely new type of cryptographic hashing algorithm, which is initially computationally expensive, but over time, becomes less so, as there are certain fundamental elements of this blockchain which generate new information without requiring any new hashing functions to be performed, and the more of these blocks that exist, the more and varied computations they're capable of performing, such that eventually also, any new hashing required becomes less frequent and less expensive, as the system asymptotes approaches infinite time (mathematicians will, or should, know what I mean by this).
The purpose of this story is indeed in part a means to develop those systems, because the story itself tells of the creation of those systems, and is told through and in conjunction with the development of those systems, such that the audience is able to get involved with the evolution of those systems — and is by default involved though their feedback as an audience member and their interaction with the storyline, even if they do not get involved beyond that.
Open Empire is a concept for transforming the world from unrestrained capitalism (and thus also fascism) into one of true individual freedom, justice, sovereignty, and sustainability
— more details to come.
PLEASE NOTE: the website for Open Empire Foundation still works, except the blog appears to have had a critical failure of some kind, as I haven't logged into it for a long time, so unfortunately the articles there are not currently available, but at some point I will endeavour to export all the posts from that blog, and recreate that website from scratch, with the articles rewritten and updated (not currently a high priority).
To invest in any of the above, you must prove to me at every stage that you are wiser than the average investor, all of whom I consider from my encounters so far, to be intellectually crippled and ethically bankrupt. If you cannot put aside your BS, do not even bother approaching, as I will see you coming a mile away.
Most importantly, you must be willing to inject upfront at risk money at every single stage, and which buys you precisely nothing more than what I am willing to give you at that stage, and which will at first be nothing more than progressively more detailed information, and these terms are entirely non-negotiable, as well as being just a bare minimum starting point for me to take you seriously.
Once the core projects of my greater vision are established, there will be a formalised system for investors to get involved, and which will make the process easier, but these terms are necessary until such time, both to protect my own interests, to protect the projects themselves, and to stop idiots from wasting my time.
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