This is a statement by Veronica and Burns, the initiators of the upcoming "ZuVillage Georgia" – our attempt of a refined second iteration of the Zuzalu 2023 experiment (series). Our addition builds on a triune directional protocol and on the application of the Zuzalu.city OS – both public goods, intended to safeguard and interconnect a plurality of techno-optimistic communities over a transnational cypherpunk network. Our ZuVillage is a prototype of this concept.

"What is the future direction of Zuzalu" was the central question at Zuzalu 2023. Later that year, as Zuzalu was called a "new culture," we began to consider a more specific, yet still open question: "What would be the most magnificent use case for a new culture, originating out of Zuzalu?" This is our attempt to answer both questions.

Below, we describe a Protocol and Prototype to guide the future direction of Zuzalu with what we believe to be the most magnificent use case for a new culture originating out of Zuzalu.

The Directional Protocol

The Directional Protocol addresses our analysis of the absolutely necessary elements of consideration for this use case. It constitutes a triune direction from first principles, sequenced in order of their interdependence:

1. Truth and Truthfulness as cultural foundation

We are accepting both the nebulosity and relevance of objectivity. We accept a plurality of cognitively sovereign individual minds able to perform as a collective intelligence in an open discourse as our most viable path towards a new culture of resilient enlightenment, intellectual autonomy and authentic self-expression.

Truth is the foundation upon which every culture is built. A culture no longer rooted in truthfulness is doomed to slide down on an uncorrectable path into a post-truth scenario: A culture that claims objective truth becomes dogmatic and authoritarian. A culture that denies the pragmatic relevance of objectivity becomes factually relativistic and intellectually dysfunctional.

Outcome-wise, both truth-claiming and relevance-denying cultures substitute objectivity with intersubjectivity: A culture that does not tolerate a plurality of intersubjective and subjective realities becomes a collectivist single point of failure. Exclusively an individual mind can experience reality – inherently biased by agency and circumstance. A culture that does not respect the importance ...

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