The president-elect wants to know YOUR opinion!
I was intrigued to receive an e-mail message from Paul Kervick of Living Well with the URL of a site called change.gov - office of the President-elect.
http://change.gov:80/page/s/ofthepeople
It looks like Mr. Obama is already soliciting our input. Can this be true? Will the administration actually read our ideas, evaluate them, and then implement the best ones?
Well, I told them about sociocracy. I’m now expecting a call from the president-elect asking me to come to the white house for vegetarian Greek lasagne with garlic soup, roasted roots, and, of course arugula salad and, for dessert, frozen anisette souffle - followed by a private chat with the by-then president over a bottle of Chateau Latour from 1942. Oh, yes, and we would discuss sociocracy, calling is dynamic self-governance, and the next day the US Center would walk away with a 30 million dollar grant.
Well, I can dream, can’t I? It’s either that or all the grants I am applying for will dry up and I’ll find myself working at comcast again. Kinahara, poo, poo, poo!
Anyway, go to that link and give the government your two cents worth. While you’re at it, give ‘em a plug for sociocracy or dynamic self-governance. Maybe we CAN change the world!
December 31st, 2008 at 6:07 pm
Hi Ted,
Thanks for the good work to make an entry on the site for sociocracy!
Understanding a bit Obama’s campaign the way his worked from without neighborhoods, quarters, local villages etc. , this way of cooperation could be continued for other social change. I can imagine he will be in favor to continue this way of working supported by appropriate software on the internet.
However in our “standard democracy” way of governance the link with central government is not easy to realize. The sociocratic circle organization method could give the solution here by means of the connected circles with leaders and deputies. This will take a couple of words to explain, but if we can bring this message to the attention of Obama, this might give it a chance to attract his further serious attention.
Reading an interview in our newspaper this weekend with Peter Robinson, one of Obama’s advisors in sustainable growth , for instance in the financial sector (being co founder of Human Insight Ltd, a consultancy firm), Peter points to the fact that complex systems are build up from simple systems. The complexity can be allocated in the dynamics. We must go back to simple systems and ad an element, formulating aims. However you should not even think about you can keep everything under control. So far a double translated citations from the interview.
With other words he is saying the problem is in how to steer difficult dynamic processes. Exactly what it is about in sociocracy!
Do you have any suggestion in what way we could formulate this message in a clear and proper way on the new site you started with?
Émile van Dantzig,
Consentric, Applied sociocratic Principles and coworker in the sociocratic center rotterdam.
January 1st, 2009 at 11:25 am
I forgot to post on here that I posted an idea, to be voted on, at change.org! I don’t think I could have mustered the 1007 votes needed, but, maybe next time there is something like this I will try to get the votes. Boy, I feel like a politician now! Vote for me!! Vote for the idea I posted!!
I got this message from change.org on the 29th:
“Your idea is currently in 165th place in the Government Reform category, and needs 1007 more votes to qualify for the final round.
The easiest way to increase the number of votes for your idea before the deadline is to email the following link to friends and encourage them to vote:
http://www.change.org/ideas/view/governance_better_than_democracy_or_consensus
Well, maybe you can still check it out.