A new world has germinated
There is one idea that can pull together developments so seemingly incompatible as permaculture and digital currencies like Bitcoin into one new universal social and economic system. That idea is Fluidity. Many new developments are popping up all over the globe and our CEO’s and policy makers are lagging so far behind they have [...]
A fluid society relies upon a few changes to the way societies and economies now function. It requires people to use money as a form of value-vote rather than just means to garner resources for survival and as a tool to create more wealth. This is called monetary democracy, whereby you support people and their [...]
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Why do we go to war? I can think of only 4 reasons. We want to change peoples minds. We want to make them believe what we do. And we believe they will be happier for it. We want to change welded-on beliefs. We want the land they occupy. And the resources within. The coal, [...]
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This is an important question for anyone that wishes to live in an egalitarian society. If we naturally form hierarchies equality can only exist for a short time or by suppressing our natural instincts. And to suppress our natural instincts goes against one of the fundamentals of equality. Freedom! While reading up on this [...]
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Are there values we all hold dear? From Botswana to Vancouver are all humans bound intrinsically together by one goal? If we are to have a cohesive peaceful and sustainable planet we must have! But many have given up on this “Utopian” idea they would prefer to “crises manage” and “minimise harm” from our conflicts [...]
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The Japanese author Haruki Murakami may seem an odd place to start this conversation but as I read Murukami’s Kafka on the shore something clicked. His protagonist a 15 year old Japanese boy who has run away from home was being helped out by a librarian friend Oshima, a neat dressing haemophiliac son of wealthy [...]
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In the west democracy along with freedom is considered a universal value. Two things intrinsically desired by all humans, and the natural result of progress. Often it is combined with free markets as the end point of civilisations. I wish to ask whether democracy really is a universal value and whether western countries actually [...]
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A whole industry has grown out of our dissatisfaction with our most privileged lives. Why are we so dissatisfied? And is it connected to our obsession with happiness? In Brisbane Australia one of the world’s biggest happiness conferences was held in 2011. For $1885 a would be happy person could hear the Dalai Lama, Jane [...]
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British Prime Minister David Cameron’s big idea for England is Big Society. Although many find the idea of Big Society vague the principals are full of merit. Big society is the devolution of power to the community, allowing those that need government services to decide what they require and how these services are to be [...]
Continue reading …The fallacy of Shareholder democracy – the owners are all opaque holding companies
September 23, 2012 1 Comment
Elected governments really don’t have much power any more because they have ceded most of it to corporations which we believe we control through share ownership but we are hopelessly wrong. Corporations are some of the few organisations that have true global influence so if we were to have a global democracy we would want [...]
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