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00201: Re: New application No. 22

From: "Jiri Polak" <jiri.polak(at)swipnet.se>
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 21:42:47 +0200
Subject: Re: New application No. 22

Hello,
I fully agree with Ted.
Sincerely, Jiri
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ted Becker" <becketl(at)auburn.edu>
To: <bruce.eggum(at)gmail.com>; <wddm@world-wide-democracy.net>
Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2005 5:00 PM
Subject: Re: New application No. 22


I think it's nice that folks who come in tell us about themselves, but I
don't think we need an application process. The proof will come in the
contribution they make and the facilitating out of disruptive ones.

Second, when he says he disagrees with our "model," this is precisely what
we do not want to do, have some kind of preferred model and to waste our
time trying to come up with one. In the deliberative democracy movement,
which is much futher along than the direct democracy one, I'd say that the
consensus is to not build models, but to describe and evaluate "best
practices." I think we'd do much better if we followed that course.

Ted.
=========

bruce.eggum(at)gmail.com 04/26/05 3:00 AM >>>
Richard Moore ok here, Bruce
ps do we need to ok each individual, or do we only need to object if
we have an objection?

On 4/26/05, Valach <valach(at)iol.cz> wrote:

I have no objection.
Milan Valach


----- Original Message -----
From: Josep Lluís
To: wddm@world-wide-democracy.net
Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2005 7:01 AM
Subject: RE: New application No. 22

Ok with me. Josep

-----Mensaje original-----
De: WDDM webmaster
Enviado el: lunes, 25 de abril de 2005 23:40
Para: wddm@world-wide-democracy.net
Asunto: New application No. 22

Please submit your comments/approval before April 31:
This is also placed in
http://www.world-wide-democracy.net/Wiki/NewApplicationsReceived


* This is a request from richard(at)cyberjournal.org to become a WDDM member


Dear WWDM,

For 30 years I was in the software R&D industry in Silicon Valley. In 1994
I

quit my career and moved to Ireland to become a writer. Not a writer in
the
sense of art or profession, but in the sense of developing my ideas and
sharing them. My motivation came from my understanding that the world
system

is dysfunctional, and I wanted to contribute to changing it.

I've published dozens of articles in magazines and journals around the
world

- a wide variety of venues, including liberal magazines, Marxist journals,
militia newsletters, and student 'zines. Everything I write gets posted
first to my email lists. My most successful article so far has been
"Escaping the Matrix", published first in Whole Earth (2000) and then
elsewhere. If you look in google, you'll find that it's been posted to
lots
of websites (usually without me being informed). I've gotten at least a
hundred enthusiastic letters and messages in response to that article.

I self-published a pamphlet called "The Zen of Global Transformation",
which

had an enthusiastic but very small following. I didn't do much to promote
it...not sure why. I still have a few copies available, and it's posted on
my website. I've now got a book almost ready for publication, "Escaping
the
Matrix - Global Transformation: Why We Need It, And How We Can Get It". I
will be spending full-time promoting that when it it finished.

The book presents an analysis of how the world system works at present,
including the sham of liberal democracy. But the main thesis, the most
unique part, is my understanding of how we can change things and what
real
democracy is about. I don't agree with the models currently being proposed
by WWDM, but you folks have the same goals I do and I think this would be
a
good forum for me to participate in.

best regards,
Richard Moore (rkm)
http://cyberjournal.org





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"In sharing, in loving all and everything, one people naturally found a due portion of the thing they sought,
while in fearing, the other found need of conquest."

Bruce Eggum, Gresham Wisconsin, USA
http://doinggovernment.com/
Check out my Blog too
http://doinggovernment.blogspot.com/





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