From: | s'ace <cjdegroot(at)orange.nl> |
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Date: | Sat, 25 Nov 2006 02:52:15 +0100 (CET) |
Subject: | Re:[WDDM] Re: substitute CONSENSUS building |
Datum: 24/11/06 04:04 PM
Van: "Richard Moore" <rkm(at)quaylargo.com>
Aan: "Doug Everingham" <dnevrghm(at)powerup.com.au>
CC: wddm@world-wide-democracy.net
Onderwerp : [WDDM] 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