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00814: Re: substitute CONSENSUS building
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Richard Moore <rkm(at)quaylargo.com> |
Date: |
Fri, 24 Nov 2006 09:26:31 +0000 |
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Re: substitute CONSENSUS building |
Doug Everingham wrote:
It seems to me we need a method to replace selection of
'elite' authorities, and substitute CONSENSUS building, with
interlinked feedback networks of all stakeholders -
Hi Doug,
Hear hear! I'm glad to see some discussion outside the box
of 'voting'. Democracy is about us governing ourselves, and unless we
learn how to build consensus, there's no such thing as 'our
will'.
rather like the organization of cells in a
multi-celled organism, where no organ dominates in toto but each
contributes to interdependent efficiencies: heart, lungs, brain,
glands, skin etc. Such 'organic' democracy is happening as described
by www.sociocracy.biz
and Dr Shann Turnbull
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=858244
and slowly being pursued by SmPol adopters [
www.simpol.org ]
There are good 'democracy models' to be found in life systems,
but the body is not one of them. The body is a better metaphor for a
dictatorship, where the ego is the dictator, and the body must suffer
abuse (eg, smoking, drugs, poor diet). Indeed, Hobbes used the image
of The Leviathan (a large creature) for the hierarchical state. In the
body, each cell serves the needs of the central organism; it's a
regimented 'society'.
rkm
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