Competition is fundamental in life, because life is identical to choice and one choice competes with the next. The consequences of choices in humanity are the benefits of one choice versus other choices, and especially the power of a certain choice (versus other choices) to bring power to one or all in a community over one or all others in or out of the community. (Collaborative) competition is the inherent life giving property of communities, and the co-presence or coactivity of such competition and collaboration (which also means inclusion, unification and diffusion) is the perennial dance of evolution.

In this important context, AikidoActivism is based on the simple recognition that competition and collaboration are not diametrically opposed alternatives between which one must choose, but two fundamental parts of life that must both be embraced in a fashion appropriate to the era. Practical AikidoActivism is almost always seen competing in practice against those competitively focused ones (Competitors, sometimes stereotyped as the megalomaniacal capitalist) who may sacrifice collaboration (inclusion, unification and diffusion) while competing in ideology against those collaboratively focused ones (Collaborators, sometimes stereotyped as the progressive idealist) who may sacrifice competition.

The ideology of the Competitor matches the AikidokaActivist in the respect that both will agree that greater power does and should survive (although the Competitor tends to err on the side of insufficient collaboration-inclusion-unification-diffusion), and the AikidokaActivist must merely illustrate the pragmatic powers of collaboration to the Competitor to unite with the Competitor. The ideology of the Collaborator matches the AikidokaActivist in the respect that both will agree that inclusion, unification and diffusion are fundamental and key aspects of living and sustainability (although the Collaborator tends to err on the side of insufficient competition-industry-traditionality-production) and the AikidokaActivist must merely illustrate the pragmatic powers of competition to the Collaborator to unite with the Collaborator.

The Competitor would have Copyright involving maximal exclusion. The Collaborator would have CopyLefts with minimal exclusion and maximal inclusion. The extreme Collaborator (the FREE Open Source proponent, the CopyLeft proponent) only makes strong ideological statements but is slow to transform the physical energies of the Competitor. The extreme Competitor commands a strong physical presence but is slow to transform the ideological energies of the Collaborator. The AikidokaActivist, seeing life as a blending of physical and spiritual, employs competitive and collaborative techniques to excel in both physical and spiritual power – commanding a yet stronger physical power together with a yet truer ideology. The stronger physical power actually moderates the physical presence, and the truer ideology actually moderates ego and ideological warring.

To do this requires acknowledging the power of moderation while practicing the empowerment of moderation and so empowering moderation. The skill of simultaneously moderating competition and collaboration requires diffusive collaboration supporting openly AikidoActivist progressive missions that seek to embrace responsibility and stewardship (what today’s Competitors often seek to avoid) through suitable means of choice (i.e. through embracing competition, such as building a competitive wall leveraging legal protections of intellectual property). It also requires expert vision/inspiration, industry, and execution to support the winning of the same AikidoActivist progressive mission above more regressive missions.

AikidoActivism.xwiki.com Web Home. Content subject to the Aikido Copyright.