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Tiberius Brastaviceanu

The Meta Plan /  World House - 0 views

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meta plan

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  • the plan for building the We Plan
  • We are not disorganized but disconnected. We have self-selected and self-organized and self-lead our prior efforts. We must coalesce these efforts into one global organism. One organism with many parts, and a single purpose.
  • The 20th century was about building with intelligence. This century, the 21st century, will be about building with wisdom and heart.
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  • The plan starts with our common purpose.
  • Some of the common threads of the current global discontent:
  • Our political systems and structures do not have the expertise, will, or speed of decision required to address today’s complex world.
  • We have backward progress on the species-level threats caused by business and industry gone amok
  • unite to address these problems
  • we must come together in purpose
  • We can seek to solve, not just one, or a few of the above problems, but all of them. All of them at once. Together. In both senses of the word.
  • This is the purpose of the We Plan:
  • Strong forward progress on all of the major problems we face
  • The only way to harness the combined energy of all humanity is to build a credible plan that betters life for all humanity. This betterment must be measured by each individual’s perspective, not by a global set of “ideals” but by each one’s choice for how they’d like to see the world improve.
  • We must ask each individual to tell us what they think and need. The local plans must address these local and individual needs.
  • living organism
  • we must start with the end in mind
  • There are answers. Many have been working on the pieces for years. We must put these answers together in once place: the We Plan.
  • Then, we must work backwards from the end
  • Where we have only questions, the Plan will be to run experiments to find the best answers we can. We will learn from each other as these experiments run
  • will work on design for technologies; some on design for social structures; some on the logistics systems required to deliver the people, information, and materials required under the plan, some on the architecture of the Plan itself.
  • Just as we collectively and continuously build Wikipedia, we will collectively build the We Plan.
  • The We Plan will be developed both top-down and bottom-up simultaneously. Some will tie the pieces together. Some will flesh out the details of the pieces. The entire Plan will be visible to everyone all the time.
  • The We Plan will be a living plan
  • We will tell others about the Plan. We will work together to get more people to help us.
  • our plan will be the most credible way to provide equal rights for everyone
  • our plan will be the most credible way to quickly move to a sustainable ecologically sound world.
  • our plan will be the most credible way to reduce the need for state force and will greatly increase civil liberties.
  • the Plan will be efficient, healthful and intelligent.
  • the Plan will incorporate an open commons-based approach to intellectual property.
  • we will be addressing poverty and the lack of resources in a massively organized and logistically superior way.
  • we will make changes to our treatment of animals that harmonize with their passions.
  • we can develop without damaging the future for others.
  • Together, We will comprise the We Movement.
  • As the We Movement builds, We will begin implementing the plan. We will find resources. We will make the parts. We will educate. We will build.
  • We will have a movement with the force to make political change where necessary, to pool resources and knowledge, to stop destruction and looting by the few against the many, to remake the world in the image of our highest dreams.
Tiberius Brastaviceanu

Democrasoft Town Hall Online - 0 views

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town town hall hall online decision making participation community took infrastructure

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    Town Hall meetings are designed to give voice to everyone within a community. Town Hall Online allows any and all members of the community to ask questions, voice their opinions and vote on issues of mutual concern. Discussion topics are self-contained engagement modules that can include attachments like documents, videos, links and more. They provide a written record of the conversation and include the ability for community members to vote and be counted on individual issues. Town Hall Online topics are organized by categories created by community members and/or moderators, which can be modified anytime, as needed. Best of all, with one click, any individual discussion topic can be shared to Facebook, LinkedIn or any of more than 200 social networks, so sharing the discussion with others outside your immediate community is quick, easy and effective. It's the ultimate in building consensus and getting the word out.
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A Practical Utopian's Guide to the Coming Collapse | David Graeber | The Baffler - 0 views

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revolution paper

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  • Revolutions were seizures of power by popular forces aiming to transform the very nature of the political, social, and economic system in the country in which the revolution took place, usually according to some visionary dream of a just society
  • historian Immanuel Wallerstein. He argues that for the last quarter millennium or so, revolutions have consisted above all of planetwide transformations of political common sense.
  • a single world market, and increasingly a single world political system
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  • “world revolution of 1789,” followed by the “world revolution of 1848,”
  • break out almost simultaneously in fifty countries
  • In no case did the revolutionaries succeed in taking power, but afterward, institutions inspired by the French Revolution—notably, universal systems of primary education—were put in place pretty much everywhere.
  • The last in the series was the world revolution of 1968—which, much like 1848, broke out almost everywhere, from China to Mexico, seized power nowhere, but nonetheless changed everything.
  • a revolution against state bureaucracies
  • birth of modern feminism
  • Revolutions are thus planetary phenomena.
  • transform basic assumptions about what politics is ultimately about.
  • ideas that had been considered veritably lunatic fringe quickly become the accepted currency of debate
  • Until 1968, most world revolutions really just introduced practical refinements:
  • in most cases, the rebels didn’t even try to take over the apparatus of state; they saw that apparatus as itself the problem.
  • It’s fashionable nowadays to view the social movements of the late sixties as an embarrassing failure.
  • The ironies are endless. While the new free market ideology has framed itself above all as a rejection of bureaucracy, it has, in fact, been responsible for the first administrative system that has operated on a planetary scale, with its endless layering of public and private bureaucracies: the IMF, World Bank, WTO, trade organizations, financial institutions, transnational corporations, NGOs.
  • the Global Justice Movement that peaked between 1998 and 2003, was effectively a rebellion against the rule of that very planetary bureaucracy.
  • I’ll take an obvious example. One often hears that antiwar protests in the late sixties and early seventies were ultimately failures
  • But afterward
  • they refused to commit U.S. forces to any major ground conflict for almost thirty years.
  • Clearly, an antiwar movement in the sixties that is still tying the hands of U.S. military planners in 2012 can hardly be considered a failure.
  • What happens when the creation of that sense of failure, of the complete ineffectiveness of political action against the system, becomes the chief objective of those in power?
  • When has social change ever happened according to someone’s blueprint?
  • The theorist Michael Albert has worked out a detailed plan for how a modern economy could run without money on a democratic, participatory basis.
  • Myself, I am less interested in deciding what sort of economic system we should have in a free society than in creating the means by which people can make such decisions for themselves.
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