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I'm adding this banner below so my website will get more people to read the Geodemocracy proposal, plus I am offering my six science fiction ebooks on the market. All books are $5.00 and emailed as attachments in PDF or zipped up .rtf format.
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July/19/2005 -I'm about to post another page called Checks and Balances, to explain further why the Geodemocracy is incorruptable. Also, I posted the Geodemocracy in text form to the Internet Archive and Ourmedia. I now have a blog at Blogspot and a forum at bsosahome.
June 21, 2005 -I just put a little essay up about one of the greatest assets of a Geodemocracy, it's incorruptibility! It much like the differance between a pile of paper and a pile of asbestos... The paper can burn but the asbestos cannot. Their characteristics are so different their characteristics define their use. Using paper for fire starting is good, using it to stop a fire is not. Asbestos is excellent for preventing fire, using it to start one is doomed to failure. In the same way, a Geodemocracy is not a heirarchy, and corruptibility is not a characteristic of a Geodemocracy like a heirarchy. Heirarchies are very bad for organizations and governments, for while they both organize people and produce coordination, heirarchies corrupt easily, while geodemocracy does not corrupt at all.
June 20, 2005 -The Sierra club just published an article on technology which comes close to my original statements about technology put on my first Geodemocracy Website in 1985. Link: [Sierraclub article on new Technologies] It seems obvious to me that technology is the most important leverage on the way people see the world, causing them to change in ways that they would never change given their intense and ignorant 'belief' systems. Buckminster Fuller said that technology would change people without a lot of resistance simply because the advantages are obvious, but he thought that people would follow their own self-interest, and they really don't.
The 'knowledge' instilled in childhood which come from ancient mis- and dis- information generated for social control systems blind most people and obscure the benefits which are not readily at hand AND the deadly or degenerative results of misused technology. This causes a blindness which even technology cannot penetrate. One of the biggest and oldest of these control systems is money, the second is religion, and the third is hierarchical government. All of them blind the mind to what benefits the most.
What makes the most difference is what is called 'common sense', which is not common nor usually sensible. But it also changes, evolves, and when it changes in a beneficial way, like the almost ubiquitous abhorrence to direct whip and chain slavery, it shows an evolution which gives me great hope.
People drop out of obnoxious and repressive religious paradigms because "It just didn't make sense to me anymore." and that shows a change in 'common sense' for that person. And eventually, the disruptive and degenerate behavior of hierarchic government will also make people start thinking of alternatives, and hopefully they will realize the original impulse towards democracy was simply preempted by the small mob hierarchy of 'Republics' and we must move on, to real democracy. The scary bugaboo of 'mobs', (ironically spread by organized mobs called 'representatives') and such does not justify the horror and monstrosity of Republics and other forms of hierarchic government, and we can have a balanced and reasonable direct democracy in this age of communication only when such reasonable self-government becomes 'common sense' in the minds of most people.
June 11, 2005 -Put my picture on this page so folks can see who wrote all this stuff. As an ex-soldier who is now proud of being a true hippy, (the clean smart kind), or perhaps a 'techno-hippy' is more accurate, I realized people needed to know that the Geodemocracy idea is more than radical... it's new and unvarnished.
I know that someday the planet will evolve into a free world, which no part of it is now, and something like this geodemocracy organizational model will be it's governance. Governance, or at least coordination, is required on levels higher than the individual, and there has to be a way to do it that cannot become just another tyranny, like all the previous ideas humanity has tried. So this is aimed to do that.
I would like to see this happen in my lifetime, which is getting pretty short, but I'm sure it will happen in someone's lifetime. It is my legacy, really, even if it isn't a workable system, (it's never been tried, mind you) and it only adds to the coming systems which do work, sometime in future generations. I think on the largest scale possible for human coordination... the planet.
After all, we are obviously the planet being aware of and evolving itself.
The Planet Earth and it's intelligent component is such a beautiful thing. The only thing messing it up is the way people think, and most of that is simply mistaken understandings of natural factors. If everyone really understood how much more they are than they think they are, the last few millennia would not have been so terrible and nasty. And the next few can be truly decent and beautiful. ...if we choose to DO that.
Comments? Email me at
"Roan Carratu at Geodemocracy@comcast.net"
June 07, 2005 -Been off the internet for a few weeks. Just did a little cleaning up on the site, spellchecking, etc, and polished the Why we need a Geodemocracy page.
May 09, 2005 -I just added two more pages of my thoughts on the Geodemocracy and why we need it.
Conversations Page 2
Conversations Page 3
I want to thank those who asked me the questions or made comments which gave me these responses. I didn't print their statements since I didn't have their permission. I will put more pages up when more questions or comments come in.
Now, on Page Geodemocracy 01, the Structure page, there is a graphic which shows the relationship of members to each other on the Octa-Team level of resolution. Each member is part of two small I-Teams, but they link different I-Teams which forms this larger sized group called an O-Team. Check it out BELOW:
May 03, 2005 -I just added an essay called "Why do we need a Geodemocracy?". You can access it from the Geodemocracy Directory.
May 02, 2005 I just finished working on my Activity Directory, putting a Web Journal, a Guestbook, a Tell-a-Friend, and a Photoalbum, all services provided free by Bravenet. I also put up a method of joining my Yahoo Geodemocracy Group. Please leave your comments there if you wish, in any of them, or email me with your comments.
I will be posting the graphics showing the geodemocracy proposal in the Photoalbum as I finish them. I might even post the old ones I did, but I want to improve them and will have better graphics soon.
May 01, 2005 Well, I finally got this site up. I will be adding things as I go, especially feedback I get about the geodemocracy. If you read it and have questions, email me and I will try to answer them. You might well find something I haven't thought of, and that would be excellent. I also have a geodemocracy group on Yahoo and a geodemocracy blog on New Civilization Network (http//www.NewCiv.org) which you are invited to join.
Peace,
-Roan
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