Here are the concise references focused on revolution. For corruption, collective intelligence, open space and other methods of non-violent consensus building and emergence, see the lists at the end of this post.
Preconditions of Revolution in the USA Today
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Here is the bottom line:
1. The concentration of wealth is historically the primary cause of insurgencies and uprisings. Real revolutions that are comprehensive are few–if any. Democracy was corrupted so quickly it cannot be said to have been anything other than an interregum. Panarchy, not anarchy, will be the real revolution.
2. There are over 5,000 secessionist movements world-wide, all existing because the imitation states above them lack legitimacy and have failed to provide the cohesive sustaining services of common concern in an egalitarian manner. The fastest path to peace is to honor the historic separateness of these specific communities, while using shared information to achieve harmonization as needed.
3. Non-violent demographics will triumph over corruption backed up by violence in the 21st century. Social media and the autonomous Internet help to create a human mass vastly more coherent than inherently limited weapons, formations, and violence. Violence is counter-revolutionary. By its very nature, violence cannot be comprehensive.
4. Will and Ariel Durant in The Lessons of History point out that the only real revolution is the revolution of the mind, and the only sustainable revolution is the one that recognizes that every human being is a priceless infinite combination of culture, energy, and intelligence. Such a revolution creates infinite wealth, with transparency eradicating corruption through truth, and truth creating trust. Secular corruption is the primary obstacle to inter-faith harmony; religion and science both seek the truth; politics and intelligence are true partners for peace and prosperity only when they both have deep unwavering integrity.
5. The most effective violence in the above context is suicidal violence. Buddhist monks and Tunesian workers who burn themselves to death accelerate the already strong cognitive dissonance between those in power and the much larger masses who can see the burning individuals as “everyman.” Murderous violence is not effective in the long run, and now with Internet tools and soon the Autonomous Internet, non-violent mass demonstration is even more superior to violent revolts than ever before.
See Also:
2011 Food Crisis, Urban Gardening, Social Systems
23 Worst Tyrants/Dictators (Yes, there’s more than 23) and Oops, there’s Saudi Arabia..
4th American Revolution? A New Turning Crisis
Achieving Peace in a Digital Society
Assisi, Egypt, US Hypocrisy, Global Revolution
BLOWBACK, Legitimate Grievances, & Integrity Lost
Breaking News: The Shift Hits the Fan
Carthage under Siege + Revolution Tyranny RECAP
Chavez: US Needs Orderly Transition; Merkel Calls for Peaceful Transition to Democracy in US
Digital Rewiring & the Revolution of Time
Egypt & Jordan: Muslim & Christian Side by Side
Egypt’s Day of Rage–Arab Dictatorial Dominos….+ RECAP
End of Hegemony, Deceit, & Despots
From Egypt to Connecticut–Burning Mansions
Gerald Celente: Forecasting Revolution in 2011
Global Revolution Has Begun…21 Sustainment Principles
Graphic: The Revolution Will Be Tweeted
Hacker Group Anonymous Civil Disobedience
Internet and Revolution–Three Insights
Journal: Air Rage–More to Come
Journal: America Is Fed Up: Two Wings, Same (Corrupt) Bird. ENOUGH!
Journal: Complexity to Avoid Accountability is Expensive
Journal: “Dumb” Government versus Smart Humans
Journal: End of Airwave Tyranny & Corruption
Journal: Goldman Sachs Five Strikes
Journal: Growing Non-Violent Informed US Revolution
Journal: It’s Official–Social Media EDUCATES
Journal: Neither Twitter nor Facebook Lead Revolution
Journal: Paradigm & Integrity Revolution in Medicine
Journal: Potential End to Two-Party Monopoly
Journal: PowerShift–USA Elite Not Interested!
Journal: Resistance to Federal Mandates Grows
Journal: Rise and Role of Concentrated Wealth in USA
Journal: Seven Stages of Jihad
Journal: The Activist Power of the Internet
Journal: The List of Negatives Keeps Growing Report Card on Obama From a New Frontiersman
Journal: Third Party Desired by 58% in America + ReCap
Journal: USA Slouching Toward Tyranny
Journal: US Government Good, Bad, & Ugly
Journal: US Ruling Class versus Country Class–Deep Insights, Need Integrity and Fact-Based Deliberation
Journal: Wayne Madson on “Conflict or Revolution”
Journal: Weak Signals–Civil War in the USA?
Journal: Weak Signals–Obama’s Czars
Journal: WikiLeaks Next Round BANKS
Learning to See in the Dark: The Roots of Ethical Resistance — Carol Gilligan Speaks at MIT
My Talk With Tom Atlee: Primer on Citizen Intelligence
Poor in the USA: 50 Million & Rising + RECAP
Poverty, Not Terrorism, Is Threat #1
Professor: American Revolution Might be Impossible to Stop–”Reform” of Rot Is a Non-Starter…
Reference: 2011 Brave New Dystopia
Reference: 8 Populations, 4 Methods
Reference: Best Piece on Democracy in a Decade
Reference: Collaborative Technologies
Reference: Diversity of Voices & Values
Reference: Electoral Reform Act & Third Party Politics
Reference: Human Intelligence (HUMINT)–All Humans, All Minds, All the Time
Reference: Legitimate Grievances by Robert Steele
Reference: Paul Williams on America Now
Reference: Social Good as Emergent Self-Organization
Reference: The Global Democratic Revolution Anew
Reference: The Revolution IS Being Tweeted
Reference: Third Party Bubble & Possibilities, RECAP
Reference: Transparency Killer App Plus “Open Everything” RECAP (Back to 01/2007)
Reflections on Convergence in 2012, Emergence Unknowable
Reflections on Revolution, Information & Civil Affairs
Regime Dominos–and Global Solidarity Protests
Review: A Constitutional History of Secession
Review: Designing A World That Works For All
Review: Driven to Death–Psychological and Social Aspects of Suicide Terrorism
Review: Harvest Of Rage–Why Oklahoma City Is Only The Beginning
Review: How to Run the World–Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance
Review (Guest): Film Review–”2012: Time for Change”
Review (Guest): Web of Debt–The Shocking Truth About Our Money System
Review: Ideas and Integrities–A Spontaneous Autobiographical Disclosure
Review: Just How Stupid Are We?–Facing the Truth About the American Voter
Review: Nobodies–Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the New Global Economy
Review: Nonzero–The Logic of Human Destiny
Review: Peaceful Positive Revolution–Economic Security for Every American
Review: Philosophy and the Social Problem–The Annotated Edition
Review: Reflexive Practice–Professional Thinking for a Turbulent World
Review: Revolutions and Revolutionary Movements
Review: SAVAGE CAPITALISM AND THE MYTH OF DEMOCRACY–Latin America in the Third Millennium
Review: Shooting the Truth–The Rise of American Political Documentaries
Review: The End of America–Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot
Review: The Myth of Digital Democracy
Review: TYRANNICIDE The Story of the Second American Revolution
Review: VOICE OF THE PEOPLE–The Transpartisan Imperative in American Life
Revolution & Secession: The Game is ON!
Revolution 2.0: Global Strike Proposed
Revolution USA? COUNT ON IT. Egyptian Notes +
Search (3): time wheel intelligence, clean sheet analytics, quotations on truth
Search: Future of Humanity on Earth
Search: History, Wealth & Reconciliation
Search: smart nation intelligence reform electoral reform national security reform
Search: Strategic Analytic Model
Stronger Signals: Revolution from the Punjab
Strong Signals: Truth or Tyrannicide + RECAP
The Mexico + American Narcosphere (Calling Carlos “Slim” Helu)
Tunesia–Angry Connected Young People
TUNISIA: The First WikiLeaks Revolution?
Video on “Technological Disobedience,” Inventing to Survive and Liberate
Weak Signals: Reality Sandwich Business Shamanism
What’s Wrong with America? Let Me List the Books….
Who Needs Enemies When We Have Us?
Worth A Look: A View from the Emergence Edge
Worth a Look: Best Libertarian Books
Worth a Look: Gold Fraud, Gold Paper
Worth a Look: “Our Revolting Elites” & Dumb Public
Worth a Look: The Anti-Globalization Breakfast Club: Manifesto for a Peaceful Revolution
Worth a Look: The Transpartisan Upwising
Master Lists of Lists of Book Reviews
Worth a Look: Book Review Lists (Positive)
Worth a Look: Book Review Lists (Negative)
