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(In »Truth as an act – the road to the fourth singularity«)

The netocratic pioneers build and lead the netocratic networks. In contrast to capitalist leadership, they lead from below and not from above. This means that they work purposefully with liberating the joy and creativity of other netocrats, and when this happens the event arises as confirmation and reward, for and within the network. The copying aspirationists follow the pioneers’ templates and set up the networks that in turn raise the status of the pioneers’ networks in the network pyramid as a whole. The Internetified physical world is already full of these obvious spinoffs, from the TEDx conferences (small-scale versions of the TED conferences in California and Canada) to regional burns (small-scale versions of the participatory Burning Man festival in Nevada), and then these various examples are nothing at all in comparison with the powerful network pyramids that are growing online with the Syntheist Movement – who are already practising what we are building a theory about in this book – as a striking example.