On Thursday, September 14, 2017, 8:11:55 PM PDT, grarpamp wrote: [1]https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/gyynwm/barrett-brown-what -is-to-be-done [2]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOoPyovqk2Q [3]https://pursuanceproject.org/ >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. [4]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_Polis Jim Bell References 1. https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/gyynwm/barrett-brown-what-is-to-be-done 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOoPyovqk2Q 3. https://pursuanceproject.org/ 4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_Polis