On Thursday, September 14, 2017, 9:47:22 PM PDT, jim bell wrote: On Thursday, September 14, 2017, 8:11:55 PM PDT, grarpamp wrote: >It is time to consider alternate systems of governance. Impactful, agile, secure civic collaboration >The Barrett Brown Review of Arts & Letters & Civil Strife is written monthly by Barrett Brown, winner of the 2016 National Magazine Award for columns and commentary. >Selections... >>The pursuance system is the world's first comprehensive framework for process democracy. That is, it allows individuals with no prior relationship to self-organize into robust, agile entities governed via a "proceduralism of agreement." These entities, called pursuances, in turn engage and collaborate among themselves to whatever extent they choose, leading ultimately to a vast and formidable ecosystem of opposition to institutionalized injustice. [end of quote] >Barrett Brown might be inadvertently duplicating another long-standing idea, "ParalelPolis". >Full disclosure, I will be speaking there, in Prague,, next month. They seem to have given me top-billing. [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_Polis Jim Bell I forgot to add this site about ParalelPolis 2017, October 6-9 2017, Prague, Czech Republic, which shows the pictures of the speakers. I'm the first (from the left) picture on the top row. [2]https://liberate.hcpp.cz/ Jim Bell References 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_Polis 2. https://liberate.hcpp.cz/