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Our mission is to bring together the global community in a calculated consensus that each person can contribute to, and participate in, with the common goal of bringing cooperation, and peaceful integration as the world moves toward a merging of international ideologies and culture.

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Building Bridges

Since the times of Athenian democracy, we have understood the importance of the common man participating in the social momentum, and politics of the time in which he lived.. We can mobilize the people into the biggest entity of all, and global information connection is the way to do that. If done correctly, the Internet can be a productive changing reflection of the articulated desires of the people through their participation, and popular consensus.

Earth and the Internet

If we can start to compile all the greatest ideals, of the best thinkers, then we can gain a world’s eye view of the universal tendencies of the masses. Then, through accurate consensus, by popular vote, the highly valued ideals will rise to the top of the list, and the less valued ideals will remain at the bottom. Out of information anarchy will rise an order. This order is born of an innate utility to work toward civility in the interest of survival. The Internet provides the perfect opportunity to compile a wide reaching database, and let the universal tendencies come to the surface in their own potentiality.

The Website

The website we are developing will attempt to draw people of different ideals together in a cooperative collective. We will present a mechanism that works in levels, and is ever changing within those levels to meet the popular desire of the people. The people themselves will submit the ideals to evaluate, and the people themselves will vote to accept, or reject the ideals. The most popular ideals will rise to the top, while other ideals will remain searchable. As times and people change, their votes will change, and the ideology will grow to reflect their desires. In the past, the people did not have the technology to put together a purely mathematical unbiased mechanism. When people can see the difference they make, in a completely transparent system, their confidence in the system is confidence in themselves. Sites like this one are just the beginning. It will take years to develop this idea into a social structure the people can use for the future, but we will take the small steps now that will allow us to open the gates, and walk into a different world of new ideas.

Understanding the Pyramid

Level 1- This level deals with fundamental rules of civilization such as:
values regarding the taking of life between individuals, and the taking of life in state sponsored events such as war

Level 2- This level deals with physical violence, and state sponsored oppression such as aggravated assault, rape and torture.

Level 3- This level deals with lesser crimes, such as theft or minor disturbance not leading to physical harm.

Level 4- This level deals with sensitive social issues, like: selfless sacrifice, selfishness, and social interaction, not leading to physical harm, or any crimes in levels 1,2 or 3.

Open Level- This is where all the general submissions will be received, and voted on. The most popular submissions will rise to the top, and be considered for inclusion in the upper four levels, while the other ideas will remain searchable. This level will resemble information anarchy. Submissions will be uncontrolled, and integrity at this low level is compromised.

Understanding the Mechanism

Imagine having a voice in the control, and order, of the life in which you live. This voice does not guarantee that you will be able to change things exactly the way you want, but it will give you a traceable voice that you can see in a mathematical difference. If you support an ideal in your profile, and during some studies, you decide that you no longer support that ideal, you can simply go to your profile and change your mind. The statistical calculations of the popularity of that ideal will change instantly, and the articulation of your electronic stand will be known instantly. When searching the database for statistical information on certain ideals, we can see if support is waxing or waning, according to popular consensus.

In a member profile there will be many functions available for participation. Every ideal that has been passed will have an option to support, or undermine. The participant will make their voice heard on every issue they care to participate in. They may also submit their own ideas for popular ideals. The success of their contributions will depend on the popularity of the idea, and also the credibility of the submitting party. One goal of this structure is to create a competing environment for ideology, and lifestyle. If we create a structure, where thinking individuals can submit their ideas and become popular with the participating people, then those ideas will become highlighted, and the people that learn from them will become better people. This mechanism will allow people to compete, in a way that allows them to grow to be great, and good individuals and harnesses the power of competition to refine virtue.

Conclusion

There are many moderate people who just want to live content and satisfactory lives, in utilitarian ideals, hoping that others may live their lives out in content and satisfactory ways also. It is in the people’s best interest to mobilize globally under ideals they support directly in majority. While this website will only try to capture the imaginations, and popular will of English speaking people at this time, I can only hope that it will grow in a way to encompass an international consensus, and be a focal point for building bridges to a peaceful future.

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Participant Profile

The participant will have all the basic information input in their profile. In this sense the website will be very similar to many networking sites they have participated in. They will input name, age, gender, home page, marital status, education, place of origin, race, ideological orientation, hobbies, books, movies, music, and they will also have the ability to post blogs, essays, articles, poetry and they can participate in forum threads, much like Myspace.

Unique Additions

In addition to all the normal networking functions, the participant will have the opportunity to submit their ideas in a preconceived format, set forth by Civil Simian. The website will offer a section called Propositions, and another called Issue/Resolve.

Propositions

Participants will be prompted to express their beliefs in a propositional form, that can be easily understood. Propositions will be limited to 200 words maximum, but 100 preferable to keep a handle on the way in which the ideas are presented. Here are a couple samples of propositional submissions:

No man shall take the life of another, unless in defense of his own, or in defense of the people under his protection.

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If a person is inquired of to answer about a subject in which they only know a partial truth, that person will either decline to answer, or, present the partial truth to the best of their ability. The person will not however use certain parts of that truth to drive any opportunistic agenda. Either offer a declination, or exhibit your most honest offering.

Issue/Resolve

Issue/Resolve is a format we came up with in order to address different types of situations that could arise at any time, or in any time period. Basically, any social issue that a person believes needs to be addressed, they may present that idea, and also present a solution to the best of their knowledge. Here is an example:

Issue: People are sneaking across the border in the United States, and since the United States acts as a sort of world police force, there are many people with ill intent trying to get in. How should the US secure the borders?

Resolve: Motion sensors, and quick action vehicles should limit the crossings.

Using Popularity to Drive Creativity

When we think about the noblest points of what makes democracy great, we start to understand how we can make it better. What makes democracy great is the feeling that every person can make a difference. The problem is, that difference is only as affective as the person can trace the difference that they made. If they cannot see the difference they have contributed, they become apathetic, and it is simple mathematics from this point on. Basically, unless you are unusually driven, then you will be as apathetic as the system you participate in is opaque. We must preserve transparency, and in turn preserve the confidence of the people in themselves. That is why we devised the simple mathematical mechanism, which uses popularity to drive noble ideas to the top, where they belong, through popular consensus. Essentially, if we can make people who hold productive beliefs and values into “rock stars” in a sense, then we can use the energy of competition to refine popular universal values into, what would amount to an electronic mono-mechanistic anthropological moral value collective. It works so eloquently because as time changes, the database will change with the lives of the masses. It will speak directly to values being followed by the virtuous of the day, while giving the people confidence that they can participate in the formation of the ideals of their day, while they are living their day.

Voting for Propositions

As participants put forward propositions to be supported or undermined, they will also vote on the propositions of others. They will be presented with a scale –5,-4,-3,-2,-1,0,1,2,3,4,5. A vote of -5 will completely cancel another participants vote of +5, and all mathematical combinations in between. There will be different levels of participation also. Participants will have status indicators such as Jade, Emerald, or Diamond. A Jade will only vote -1,0,1, and Emerald will vote with -2,-1,0,1,2, and a Diamond level will vote the entire gamut of -5,-4,-3,-2,-1,0,1,2,3,4,5. If a participant votes 0, they will have taken a stand on the issue, but they will not sway the vote count either way. They will only be counted in the member statistics on that vote. This offers a way for people who are undecided to stand mathematically as agnostic, or undecided. Status designators will be earned by education, number of posts, number of positive supporters, and basically merit and integrity with the system. The most popular submissions will rise to the top, and be considered for inclusion in the upper four levels, while the other ideas will remain searchable.

Each level will have a designated number of positive votes in order for a proposition to enter the ideological pyramid. All submissions will go directly to the open level where they will have the same chance to grow, with the advantage going to the participant with merit, in that people may search Diamond level submissions, so, Jade level submissions may not get the attention a Diamond would. Regardless of status, all new posts enter in the open level and grow support to enter the pyramid at their height. There will be a set number of propositions possible at any particular level in the pyramid. When that number is reached, a new proposition cannot enter the pyramid without another being pushed out. As certain propositions gain more and more votes, they become more and more difficult to push out, therefore being more and more ideologically valuable to the people of that time. As time goes on, the values in the pyramid gain more and more votes, pushing the value of certain ideals up and up, and pushing the value of the pyramid higher and higher giving the participants a goal to work for, essentially learning about themselves and other people in the process.

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In a time where people around the globe are divided in ideological differences, our company will build bridges between them, using information technology to assess their desires, and organize them in a collective manner, so as to be useful in understanding themselves as a whole. We will construct a database of common beliefs submitted by the people that they will read, and vote to support or undermine. Each person will have a voice, and will be counted in consensus in real time.

What we intend to do as a company, is to present the world with a superior ideologically democratic model that changes in real time to reflect the desires of the people who participate in it. We will start this database as a basic submission website, and we will work on adding the necessary components to bring mathematical clarity to the democratic situation bringing maximum transparency, integrity, and confidence to the participants.

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Civil Simian is entering an industry that is largely undiscovered, and analyzing its possibility we find the participants (customers) to be divided in their directives. It is not often that people believe they can bring to bear realistically such a daunting task, such as unifying people through a universal ideology, therefore we do not believe there to be much direct competition for the market we are presently identifying, and concomitantly creating.

Long Term Trends

The long-term trends that affect our area of growth include nothing less than globalization, technology, ideology, and modern government.

Globalization

Globalization in a sense that we will try to merge ideas, culture and beliefs across any land and water mass through this mathematical mechanism. This is not to be confused with modern globalization.

Technology

Our goal is to use the basic mathematics of database technology, and fuse it together with the basic mathematics of human contingency. This idea is staring us in the face mathematically, but we finally have the technology to realize it.

Ideology

We will provide a new mono-mechanistic view that changes in real time, and allows real ideological answers that are valuable to the people in the time in which they live, and changing to reflect the ideals of the changes of that time.

Diplomacy and Continuity

In the future, with the looming possibility of nuclear war, the heated tensions between different uncompromising ideals take on new meaning with the context of human annihilation looming as a backdrop. This context speaks to the need for bridge building between different cultures.

Entry Barriers

There is not much competition for our organization to enter our area of interest. We have a few assets we have yet to acquire, such as our own server, the programming of the mechanism, and useful contributors. These are the current needs to be worked on immediately.

Out of convenience, our organization will operate out of the United States. Our mission is to expand to all areas of the globe, bridging language barriers, and merging universal ideological standards. This international expansion is the paramount mission of the organization.

Demographic

Age: From early teens, to seniors,
Gender: Any,
Race: All,
Education: All education levels can have a say in change,
Marital Status: Any,
Income Level: Any with enough to connect to Internet.

Behavioral

We hope to create an ideological sensation, where skeptics and supporters will flock all at once, at least to investigate. We will continue to grow using advertising, and other services that will be realized as further utility becomes apparent.

Stealth Competitors

There will be no direct competitors for Civil Simian, but we will compete with other companies for certain aspects of the organization such as Myspace for networking, Amazon.com for selling books, Wikipedia for information, and numerous other academic information sites which offer studies and ideas. They will not tie ideals together the way we will, and will not be direct competitors.

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Product and Services: Our main product is a mechanism which captures the popular ideals and will of the people. We will also publish and sell books, and sell advertising space to blue chip advertisers.

Key Service Features: We will offer an electronic profile, which will enable the participant to express their stand on issues of government, religion, education, law, war and other such modern issues. Reviewing their position on modern social subjects will help them understand themselves better, and it will also help them understand the issues that face them today.

Research and Development: We will constantly research in the interest in forwarding human collective knowledge. We will keep pace with the development of new technologies in order to keep the integrity of the database, and to ensure proper usage.

Location: Since the primary service is located on the Internet, the location of the server farm is not of paramount importance, except in finding IT, and graphic talent.

Equipment: Servers, software programs

Labor: As the company grows, many types of team members will be needed. We will need IT technicians, Programmers, Web Designers, Graphic Designers, and information contributors.

Process: People submit ideas, and through transparent mathematical process, popularity of ideals is derived through voting. Administration will be in the background keeping the integrity of the data.

Management: In the beginning management will consist of one Chief Executive, and one Web Developer.

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Starting Small

While reading this plan, you may be struck by the size and scope of our undertaking. Let me assure you, while it is an immense undertaking, explaining the idea makes it seem more difficult than it is.

Starting small with a Chief Executive, and a Web Developer we will acquire a server to begin hosting our site. Then we can easily download a generic MySQL website with all the basic functions such as basic profiles, blogs, forums, essays and articles.

After getting the simple website started, we will begin to code the mathematics necessary in the pyramid. This will take the majority of the time, and will be the major step necessary to gain attention, and bring originality to the site.

After linking the profiles to the pyramid, we will be able to collect information, and soon after we will be able to start selling books. This will be the first step, and we will spend time to work on security, and server side applications.

Opportunities

We have many possible opportunities in our area of growth. Our largest opportunity is we have the leading role in defining our market. We will provide our participants with a service that they did not realize they needed, giving us a head start in gaining the loyalty of the participants, and allowing us to stay ahead of the up and comers in our wake.

Since our website database will be composed of integral content, we should have no trouble attracting Blue Chip advertising, and we will not suffer from the profit woes of Myspace.com

With books able to be published one at a time, we will set up a system that will print real time books for customers. These database books will take a “snapshot” of the most popular information submissions, and print them in a book. Each person’s book would be different from the next because the data changes in real time. There will be many “auto-books” for sale that will cover different aspects of the website.

Threats

There is the possibility that the website will be to complicated for the average person to understand. This means we are under constant pressure to simplify.

Hackers will try to undermine the system in any way possible. We will have to be alert, and work to maintain the integrity of the system.

There is always the threat the overhead will overwhelm the revenue, but we have a solid plan to avoid this.

Much like the Friendster.com story, where they were the first one in the market, but Myspace.com took off, and passed them straight to the number one spot, we have to be ready to out perform any copy cat competitor.

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1. Format my spare Dell to run Apache server, MySQL, and PHP
2. Set up a basic site, and store front to sell books as reseller or affiliate.
3. Start small publishing company, and purchase ISBN’s
4. Launch temporary site, and produce revenue stream.
5. Acquire a professional server to host the website.
6. Bring the professional server on line.
7. Begin with Internet advertising.
8. Start work on the democratic mechanism, and server side applications.
9. Set up template to sell single print books of content on the site.
10. Get traffic up, and search for advertising money.
11. Launch democratic ideological pyramid.
12. Shift advertising, and promotion to promoting the mechanism.
13. Look for press.
14. Focus on getting traffic up, and reinforcing security and integrity of the system

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At this time, I am focused on developing the mathematics of the mechanism, and working on a presentation that can take an idea of such wide focus, and explain it to someone with an extremely short attention span, and not compromise the integrity of the concept. I do have rough idea how to market, and I will present that here, but I will come back to this section later.

Marketing

Our organization will market to nearly every demographic, paying special attention to international support. We will not expect suppport from the age group of 13 yrs, or younger, but we do expect support from all age groups after. We also expect support from all class levels, education levels, racial backgrounds, and ideological orientations. We will market to all, as all who question what it is to understand their relationship with the society they live in, will be interested in participating.

Finance

When we gain attention, then I expect to pull in revenues from Blue Chip advertisers, while publishing books. We will investigate new ways to make money in this type of system. We will start reselling books on important social subjects that fit the theme of the website. This will be the first step in bringing a revenue stream.

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