Is Big Society a step toward fluidity?
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 [...]
Markets rallied on Friday after governments and Central banks in the US, Japan and Europe promised the banks they would be supported if the Greek election resulted in a break up of the Euro. Don’t they realise this is the problem. They continually use our money to support those that caused the crises in the [...]
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If we are intrinsically virtuous why aren’t there more equal societies? I have written that we are innately co-operative, that we will still do create and build without being forced, that we care more about long term sustainability than short term gains, and that all these things are our normative state. We are not selfish [...]
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The words equality and freedom have been massively misunderstood. Yet they are simple, and profound. I will deal with equality first for people have a great problem with this word, they think it means we are all the same. It does not. It means no-one is born with power over another’s life and no-one is [...]
Continue reading …This is a post by Yang Jisheng intellectual and “blogger in hiding” responding to Zang Wei Wei’s praise of the “Chinese Model” for economic progress. It is a must read for all western observers. “How I See the ‘China Model’” Yang Jisheng Yanhuang Chunqiu , January 2011 Posted online January 11, 2011 The “China [...]
Continue reading …As Tahrir square breaks into another spasm of violence and the OWS movement has returned to their warm apartments has the 1% won? They know if they wait we will get tired, if they placate us with committees senate or not, with sympathy, with hope! We will wait for them to fix everything. They fix [...]
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Adbusters has put forward a list of wants/demands and I like them. I think they deserve consideration and I shall do so from inside the idea of Global DemoKratia and the Flow Siphon Flat Payment which I have been advocating for some time. A 1% tax on all financial flows 1% is a bit [...]
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We have seen with the ABS study into wealth that interest is the cause of inequality. The startling graph (see below) from the Tri-year ABS study into wealth puts in plain graphics what we have always known, that people on below average incomes need to borrow to survive. They survive while those in the top [...]
Continue reading …Creating a fluid society is the way to pull the OCW’s 99% movement together with pluralism. The occupy Wall Street movement has been lambasted for not having one set of demands but their lack of hierarchical organisation and lack of demands (an absolute is loved by an opponent wanting to pick apart rather than build) [...]
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DemoKratia is; demos=people, Kratia = power. What I propose is an updated version of the Greek ideal of self governance which uses modern financial exchanges for good rather than evil. I wrote at the end of last year on DemoKratia that the world was at a tipping point, the suppression of Wikileaks and arrest of [...]
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