Rewilding
Systemic Expressions
✴️ Symbiotic Commonwealth
🔮 Sustainability Theorems
A cross-domain analysis of Political, Economic, Cultural, and Ecological theories.
Political Theory
Community Autonomy
Economic Theory
Commons-based Production
Cultural Theory
Holistic Identity
Ecological Theory
Biodiversity
The Liberation Process: Restoring agency and diversity at all levels.
📑 Observations
Establishing a triage containing observations of social experience.
🪞 Self-Enquiry
What skills or resources could I contribute to a system of Commons-based Production that would increase my community's Community Autonomy, and how would this help me develop a more Holistic Identity beyond being a consumer?
🩺 Diagnosis Questions
1. Do systems recover from shocks with increased capability?
2. Does diversity increase during stress?
3. Are there multiple pathways for essential functions?
Related Variables
- Community resilience to crises
- Innovation rate during challenges
- Redundancy and diversity metrics
"The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly. Take either path and you go astray." — Bhagavad Gita 5.4 (On integrated being/action)
🩻 Targeted Organ
The Sovereign Spine
Capacity for Self-Organization
🧾 Rationale
To build antifragile systems that gain strength from disturbance through distributed intelligence.
💉 Extraction/Cultivation
Returning land to wilderness, fostering community autonomy, and unlearning domestication.
😷 Defense/Propagation
Feral Resilience: The innate ability to self-organize, resist control, and regenerate from the bottom up.
❌ Tetrad Analysis
- Object of Perception: Agency / Diversity
- ENHANCES: Autonomy; self-organization; biodiversity; resilience; creativity
- OBSOLESCES: Control; standardization; monoculture; dependence
- RETRIEVES: Feral intelligence and wildness in context of human co-existence
- REVERSES INTO: System becomes antifragile—thriving on disturbance and change
📝 Partial Diagnosis
Ecological Nervous System: Systems regain their self-organizing intelligence through distributed autonomy and biodiversity of approaches.
⚗️ Research Repository
🔮 Engagement Circle
🧊 Life Course
🎓 Case Study
Indigenous Forest Management in Pacific Northwest (ongoing)
Traditional ecological knowledge of Coast Salish peoples demonstrates symbiotic ethos through controlled burning practices that increase biodiversity, salmon habitat restoration that benefits entire watersheds, and governance systems based on seven-generation thinking.
Sources: Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission | Traditional Ecological Knowledge Institute | University of Washington Ethnobotany
📚 Literature
"Feral: Rewilding the Land, the Sea, and Human Life" by George Monbiot (2013)
Monbiot explores how rewilding landscapes and human communities can restore biodiversity and community autonomy, moving beyond mere conservation toward dynamic ecological and social regeneration.
