A major issue revealed by the Arab Spring (as well as other recent insurrections back to 1989 and the Berlin Wall): Once the people have overthrown a dictator or abhorrent regime, what do they do? How can they make a nonviolent transition to self-governance, some form of non-authoritarian direct democracy, that perhaps leads to some hybrid socialism/anarchism/capitalism, not ripping peoples lives apart but inspiring a voluntary transition? Could a new set of social technologies support a rapid evolution toward direct participatory democracy that scales from the local to the bioregional to the planetary level? Could the nation-state become a vestigial organ that atrophies over time, like an appendix? Who is doing cutting-edge work in the area of group governance / direct democracy, exploring how an evolution to a new political system could be orchestrated / facilitated by social technology / social networking tools?
Posted on: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 11:56:01 +0000
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