Editing Factionalism

'''Factionalism''' is the promotion of [[faction]]s as a good thing.  That is, it sees a [[political spectrum]] of different [[political choice]]s and various ways to organize around [[common values]] as an inherent, normal, natural way to do [[mutual cognition]].  For instance, [[factionally defined]] terms must come before any more widely agreed [[glossary]], and [[reputation]] must precede any more effective [[audit regime]] (else, who will actually create it?).

Some, e.g. [[Pinks]], see this as overly combative and competitive like [[betting]].  They would like everyone to just agree to the same basic things on day one, as if the whole planet were really some gigantic kindergarten - with a Pink as "teacher".

Others, e.g. [[Greens]], consider factions just a consequence of [[ecology]] and [[politics as usual]] (which they also see as a consequence of ecology).  They hope to control and direct it with methods like [[bioregional democracy]] which force [[common interests]] to be defined along ecological borders to make [[ecosystem health]] the basis of co-operation.  Consequences of this kind of thinking for [[Consumerium]] would be dividing into [[ecoregion]]s for purposes of [[governance]] and monitoring [[point of production]] activities everywhere.

See [[m:faction]] and [[m:factionalism]] for a discussion of how this affects [[Wikipedia]].

[[Consumerium Governance Organization]] will have to decide how best to deal with it in the [[Content Wiki]] and other activities, e.g. [[Consumerium maintenance]] and [[Consumerium developers]] priorities, [[Consumerium Prediction Market]] if that exists, [[Life Exchange]] if that exists too, and of course anything where it might affect the [[Consumerium buying signal]].