by Flemming Funch
Lee Felsenstein is an Internet oldtimer and activist. Here's a thing from his weblog:"HOW TO MAKE A REVOLUTION in three easy steps
OK, here's the method for making sweeping, positive social change.
FIRST, everybody gets a project.
Join one or start one, but the project has to be directed toward making things better. That's what's called a "positive vector".
SECOND, everybody talks with everybody else about their projects.
That's "talks with", not just "talks to" or "talks at". This sets up a "field of communication", with information flowing in all directions. It's very important to the process, and we now have the tools (the Internet and the phone system) to make communication available without much hierarchy.
THIRD, be prepared to change your project based upon what you learn by communicating about it.
This is also very important. It "closes the feedback loop" by making the communication consequential, and, with everyone's good sense, sets up a "converging system" in the general direction of the vector.
That's it. Act, especially in concert with others, communicate and re-evaluate. Repeat as often as possible. Oh, yes - keep records of what you try and what happened , both good and bad. The system needs an element of memory to function. " OK. Organization based on each person actually having something meaningful to do, and on a process of continuous dialogue.
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