learning to play "first life" while in "second life". 

"First life" would be like the World Game of Buckminster Fuller - how do we create a collaborative real-world infrastructure for a design science process?  

"Will the transformation."-Rilke

 On Second Life we will create a virtual prototype for ENN, Evolver News Network, an organization that uses a media and membership model (similar to National Geographic or AAA) for the purposes of planetary transformation and consciousness research. Media and membership could be called "mediaship," a new hybrid, where the individual members are empowered to create the media and disseminate it. In a sense, ENN is the logical advance and polar reverse image of Nat Geo, which went across the world to explore exotic cultures and environments to bring back material for the Western middle class observer/outsider, using anthropological tools. ENN now uses the insights of anthropology to reverse-engineer contemporary civilization, consciously re-tribalizing it and spreading McKenna's "archaic revival."  We realize that local indigenous cultures are much better at conserving local resources, so we delete artificial boundaries between states and nations and create new tribal councils, with local currencies and gift economies. Trading between larger entities uses the Terra, a currency with "negative interest" as defined by Bernard Letaier. We also realize that nonviolence can be taught just as easily as literacy or violence - as Gandhi understood, and practiced. So we disseminate a simple technique for teaching nonviolent activism as a warrior's path. ENN also scans the planet for techniques of natural bioremediation, technologies that remove carbon from the atmosphere, alternative fuel production that does not influence food production, etc. ENN also takes seriously fifty years of data on UFOs and alien abductions, and offers a dedicated channel to exploring the "extraterrestrial other" as both legitimate contact phenomena and archetypal projection of the psyche. 

ENN also supports dissemination of esoteric and shamanic practices and uses "reality tv" show formats to follow the effects of various disciplines (such as dark room retreats, Tantrik training, or Amazonian dietas) on brave and glamorous young people.  

"Will the transformation."-Rilke

DP that's quite a collection of ideas, I bet you've been self-collaborating on this for some time now!

Second Life is full of hybrid terms, and I feel "mediaship" would fit in well with that.

Re-tribalization in our modern world is another hybrid I personally would love to experience. Generally speaking, the history of modern America has been so intertwined with independence and has exhalted those who braved their own way, even if those same people ruined others to get there. I imagine that if the intent was collective or interdependent we'd have a lot less of the bad that comes with the good of independent thoughts and ideas.

In reviewing the structure of Second Life, it already boasts a creative spirit in that the creations inworld belong solely to the creator. The creator can do with them what they wish, and my hope is that our community would make them available to anyone freely and without attachment.

"The only thing constant in life is change" -François de la Rochefoucauld