I have experience with a lot of different community things and have read a lot of different books. I have A LOT more reading to do and a lot more experience to get, but I figured I’d capture my thoughts as of Day 8, Cycle 21.

I mean both definitions of revolutionary:

1. involving or causing a complete or dramatic change.
   • “a revolutionary new drug”
2. engaged in or promoting political revolution.
   • “the revolutionary army”

Step 1 – Building Personal Community Capacity

I’m talking about a deep transformation of the Self. This step focuses on developing the capacity to be a community builder. Community building requires a lot of resources. Financial, emotional, spiritual, time, energy, communication, cooperation, etc. You don’t need to master every domain, but you must have the right combination of foundational strengths to get started.

I’m also totally convinced that decolonizing and decapitalizing your mind is a requirement. There also needs to be a reckoning with white supremacy.

Step 2 – Building Community Capacity in Others

I think this might be a crucial missing step. We’re practically all brainwashed to be anti-community. The first step to undoing this brainwashing, I think, is giving people the tools to function in a dysfunctional society. The same capacity you’ve built in yourself, you must build in others. To achieve this effectively, you require a reliable system for personal development, decolonization, and decapitalization.

Step 3 – Build Deep One-on-One Trust

This step actually happens naturally by working on step 2. It’s a long, slow process. I think it needs to be long and slow.

Step 4 – Make Trust Networks

I had a vision the other day about how these communities might form in a decentralized manner (not necessarily lacking leadership). If you get a group of people playing the “deep trust” game, natural “pods” will form. Everyone will be at the center of their own deep trust networks, but through community-building events, these one-on-one deep trust networks will become multiway.

Step 5 – Build a Community

Now that you have a collection of people with multiway deep trust connections, a community can be formed based on these connections. I have a feeling people would say everything leading up to this step is community, but I don’t think so. Step 5, to me, is where community starts.

Step 6 – Communal Development

This is basically step 1, but on a communal level. Building capacity for the community. Pooling resources, strengthening the members of the community, doing step 2 for people who are connected to the community but aren’t members to help them become members of, join other, or start their own communities. I haven’t discussed numbers, but I believe three people can form a community if they’re all connected by deep trust and decide to engage in communal development.

Step 7 – Develop Deep Community-to-Community Trust

This will be much easier to do “in network” (all people having come up in the same system), but the practice will be harder to do outside of the system. I hear coalition building all the time now that I’m looking into this space… That doesn’t seem to align with what I have in mind, but we can use that as a placeholder. Coalitions don’t seem to have deep trust.

Step 8 – Make Community Trust Networks

I believe this process will be revolutionary, and I’m excited to see it in action. I’m mainly thinking about “in network” community building here, as it’s so hard to get the members inside of a single community to agree. Getting members from two different communities to agree seems impossible (especially if they haven’t done the work yet). I believe you can bring a mass of people and communities to this point by creating frameworks for thought and living that serve the individual better than capitalism does. Capitalism doesn’t serve most people well. Most people try to come up with solutions that operate in capitalist and colonial models. Like socialism. Like democracy. They will never work. Real power needs to be amassed, and there is nothing more powerful than a group of people moving as one. I believe the power of this movement lies in teaching people how to lead genuinely better lives by thinking and working outside the systems that have been designed over hundreds and thousands of years to control them.

I’m currently in between Step 1 and Step 2.