On Thursday, September 14, 2017, 8:11:55 PM PDT, grarpamp
It is time to consider alternate systems of governance. Impactful, agile, secure civic collaboration The Barrett Brown Review of Arts & Letters & Civil Strife is writtenmonthly by Barrett Brown, winner of the 2016 National Magazine Award for columns and commentary.
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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. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_Polis Jim Bell