UPDATE: I was not happy with these, the first one got a lot of views, the other two did not, so I have removed them. Instead I recommend the below mid-1990's condensation of my 1976 thesis.
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UPDATE: I was not happy with these, the first one got a lot of views, the other two did not, so I have removed them. Instead I recommend the below mid-1990's condensation of my 1976 thesis.
Learn more:
Lauren Anderson: the “We” of the our collaborative age will replace the “Me” of the industrial age
“Is this shift from the Me to the We as significant as the industrial revolution? And should we welcome this revolution with, so to speak, open arms?”
Lauren Anderson is the Innovation Director for Collaborative Lab, interviewed here by Andrew Keen:
As originally posted by Michel Bauwens.
Random Communications from an Evolutionary Edge
Much has been said about the Occupy movement's lack of demands and vision. Some say it will have no impact unless it makes demands and organizes to make sure those demands are met.
Others respond that the People should just take charge of their democracy rather than petitioning official powers-that-be to do this and that. Still others say that any list of demands – any effort to focus OWS more narrowly and explicitly – could weaken the movement because Occupy Together is a broadly inclusive initiative that's about (a) changing whole systems and/or (b) creating microcosms of a better society in the occupation zones and/or (c) stimulating transformational conversations out in society at large and/or (d) passionately building and forcefully demonstrating the Power of the People to resist illegitimate, corrupt authority.
Others note that the disturbing lack of demands spreads OWS' surprising impact through a “blank slate effect” – OWS becomes a mystery or a mirror into which diverse individuals and groups project their various desires, hopes, frustrations, and agendas. Furthermore, that mystery helps by enhancing the movement's uncommon anarchic power that makes it so hard for authorities and others to figure out how to control, undermine or use it. Others insist that a shared vision – articulating what the 99% actually want – would be much more powerful than focusing on a laundry list of demands that many 99%ers might well disagree with. Simultaneously, many Occupiers are chronically frustrated with all this talk and want Action!! Their more thoughtful colleagues reply that pulling so many diverse people together in consensus requires taking the time to hear each other and generate collective wisdom.
These specific individuals are the starting point for a nation-wide move to demand the Electoral Reform Act of 2012 at the state level.
Seats that hold only two years terms are marked with an asterisk.
DELAWARE: Jack Markell (D)
INDIANA: Mitch Daniels (R)
MISSOURI: Jay Nixon (D)
MONTANA: Brian Schweitzer (D)\
NEW HAMPSHIRE: John Lynch (D)*
NORTH CAROLINA: Beverly Perdue (D)
NORTH DAKOTA: JackDairymple (R)
UTAH: Gary Herbert (R)
VERMONT: Peter Shumlin (D)*
WASHINGTON: Christine Gregoire (D)
WEST VIRGINIA: Earl Ray Tomblin (D)
See Also:
Electoral Reform Working Group Preliminary 2 Pages (Full Text Online for Google Translate)
Electoral Reform Statement of Demand 3.2 (Full Text Online for Google Translate)
Electoral Reform Act of 2012 3.2 (Full Text Online for Google Translate)
These specific individuals are the starting point for a nation-wide move to demand the Electoral Reform Act of 2012.
ARIZONA: Jon Kyl, Republican
CALIFORNIA: Dianne Feinstein, Democratic
CONNECTICUT: Joseph Lieberman, Independent
DELAWARE: Thomas Carper, Democratic
FLORIDA: Bill Nelson, Democratic
HAWAII: Daniel Akaka, Democratic
INDIANA: Richard Lugar, Republican
MAINE: Olympia Snowe, Republican
MARYLAND: Benjamin Cardin, Democratic
MASSACHUSETTS: Scott Brown, Republican
MICHIGAN: Debbie Stabenow, Democratic
MINNESOTA: Amy Klobuchar, Democratic
MISSISSIPPI: Roger Wicker, Republican
MISSOURI: Claire McCaskill, Democratic
MONTANA: Jon Tester, Democratic
NEBRASKA: Ben Nelson, Democratic
NEVADA: John Ensign, Republican
NEW JERSEY: Robert Menendez, Democratic
NEW MEXICO: Jeff Bingaman, Democratic
NEW YORK: Kirsten Gillibrand, Democratic
NORTH DAKOTA: Kent Conrad, Democratic
OHIO: Sherrod Brown, Democratic
PENNSYLVANIA: Robert Casey, Jr., Democratic
RHODE ISLAND: Sheldon Whitehouse, Democratic
TENNESSEE: Bob Corker, Republican
TEXAS: Kay Bailey Hutchison, Republican
UTAH: Orrin Hatch, Republican
VERMONT: Bernard Sanders, Independent
VIRGINIA: Jim Webb, Democratic
WASHINGTON: Maria Cantwell, Democratic
WEST VIRGINIA: Carte Goodwin, Democratic
WISCONSIN: Herb Kohl, Democratic
WYOMING: John Barrasso, Republican
See Also:
Electoral Reform Working Group Preliminary 2 Pages (Full Text Online for Google Translate)
Electoral Reform Statement of Demand 3.2 (Full Text Online for Google Translate)
Electoral Reform Act of 2012 3.2 (Full Text Online for Google Translate)
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Army of unemployed is now entrenched in U.S.
Commentary: Structural woes in economy creating ‘permanent underclass’
Howard Gold
Wall Street Journal, 14 October 2011
The public knew this much earlier than economists or pundits did, and as for politicians — don’t ask!
. . . . .
Listen to Charles Plosser, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, in a speech a couple of weeks ago.
“These numbers are troubling, especially when more than 40% of the unemployed, or some six million people, have been out of work for 27 weeks or longer,” he said.
“Millions of unemployed workers may take longer to find jobs because their skills have depreciated or they may need to seek employment in other sectors. These structural issues will take time to resolve. Jobs and workers will need to be reallocated across the economy, which is a long and slow process.”
Phi Beta Iota: The US Government is in grid-lock, with 1950's mind-sets, 1970's technologies, and 1990's spendthrift ways–in other words, it is completely out of touch with reality and has no idea how to cope with the need to retrain a quarter of the population across all age groups in a year or two. Hint: bail out the public, not the banks and certainly not the multiple complexes of corruption. Start by using military to ingest the entire unemployed population into receiving and retraining centers with full salary for each individual committing to retraining.
See Also:
Read Howard Gold’s analysis “White-Collar Recession, Blue-Collar Depression” on MoneyShow.com