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The Summary – an introduction to #TheBigDeal

Sunday, February 6, 2011

I’ve recently written four essays, The Big Deal (#thebigdeal) which combine to paint a new picture of the current state of the world and a future picture showing how grass roots political power can achieve what current models of governance, including government, cannot do alone. This work is partly a critique and expansion on the [...]

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The Beautiful World

Sunday, February 6, 2011

(see The Summary – an introduction to #TheBigDeal for more of this series of essays) The Star One of my collaborators called our goal “The Beautiful World.” I want to revisit this concept and pull from it the thread of what can be done with the resources available. Here’s the first thing I want you [...]

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The Synthesis

Saturday, February 5, 2011

(see The Summary – an introduction to #TheBigDeal for more of this series of essays) Preamble People of earth, we’re out of time for gradualism and compromise positions. People of earth, we need to act in unity on our real problems, but without creating a global government which could buy and sell the lot of [...]

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The Only Way Out Is UP

Friday, February 4, 2011

(see The Summary – an introduction to #TheBigDeal for more of this series of essays) I’m a technological determinist. I think that we have the room to create the world we want, but it’s not going to be done by democratic processes alone. Civil society is a “do-ocracy“, always has been, and holds the fundamental [...]

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Reawakening the Enlightenment

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

(see The Summary – an introduction to #TheBigDeal for more of this series of essays) Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun Chairman Mao In a networked environment the person who knows what to do next is in charge Gupta’s Law of Networked Politics I am a worst-case-scenario survival-of-the-species kinda guy. I’m [...]

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