Voting for your rulers is not the same as voting for your rules.
One hands over power. The other exercises it.
#Colocracy #SystemChange #PostDemocracy
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Voting for your rulers is not the same as voting for your rules.
One hands over power. The other exercises it.
#Colocracy #SystemChange #PostDemocracy
Like onopticon, it's a neologism. Just as democracy means "inclined to power of community", colocracy means 'inclined to power of collaboration.'
#Colocracy #Collaboration #Democracy
Can't believe he said this over 2,300 year ago.
And we're still not listening.
#Colocracy #Democracy #Politics
Before we can fix democracy we must take responsibility.
Because being defensive, cynical and lazy-righteous is not going to work.
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Until citizens reclaim responsibility as the moral core of politics, we’ll keep confusing complaint for contribution, critique for courage and cynicism for insight.
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If democracy means rule by the people, then it follows that the people must learn to rule themselves and that includes mastering not just outrage, but responsibility.
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It’s not that people _don’t want_ a better system.
It’s that they’ve become psychologically allergic to hope, because hope has so often been a false front for exploitation.
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People aren’t politically passive because they’re stupid.
They’re passive because they’ve learned—through experience—that participation doesn't seem to matter.
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