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00690: Richard Moore' s interesting proposals

From: <WDDM webmaster>
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 20:39:50 -0700
Subject: Richard Moore' s interesting proposals

Richard is visiting British Columbia, Canada, this week, see
http://www.world-wide-democracy.net/forum/read.php?12,370,370#msg-370

During his presentations Richard was explaining the ideas described in detail
in his book Escaping the Matrix (http://escapingthematrix.org/). It seems to me
that his "Harmonization and Localism"
(http://www.world-wide-democracy.net/Wiki/HarmonizationAndLocalism) are more or
less just other terms for "Achieving Consensus" (or rather Consent - see also
http://www.sociocracy.biz/) and for "Local Autonomy".

Localism envisions creating fully autonomous democratically governed
communities generally not larger than about 3000 citizens.

Harmonization refers to how each community would govern itself democratically
without the need for voting. Harmonization is to be achieved with the help of
Wisdom Councils (http://www.co-intelligence.org/P-wisdomcouncil.html) - an
institution quite similar to the Planning Cells (Germany) or Citizen Juries
(USA). A Wisdom Council consists of about 12 randomly selected members of a
community who would engage in a facilitated dialogue for a weekend or two, and
present the consensus that they arrived at in a report to the whole community
for further consideration/implementation. Each time different 12 members of the
community would be selected.

All matters of mutual interest of/conflict between individual communities would
also be solved by some sort of harmonization up to the level of the whole world.

General consensus among the participants of the Nanaimo presentations was that
for the Harmonization to work well to replace the current system of government,
a profound transformation of the society is needed. However, Richard actually
also offers a simple proposal how to start implementing such a system right
now: Find a suitable community with enough activists willing to participate in
organizing the Harmonization approach. Get a small grant, use this grant to get
good Dynamic Facilitators
(http://www.co-intelligence.org/P-dynamicfacilitation.html). An organizing
committee of activists would then select every two weeks twelve random and
willing participants. They would engage in a dialogue for a few days with the
help of facilitators, and present a report to the community. Do this for six
months, if done properly, this is supposed to change the community's approach
to public matters significantly for better. It this would be a success, the
first trial community would pass their experience on to other communities to
start the same thing.

There is some hope that enough volunteers could be found in Nanaimo who would
try to start this in a suitable neighbourhood of the city!

Richard promised to write himself for the WDDM about his ideas and proposals in
more details.


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