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A global liquid democracy
Tim Olsson from South Africa engages with me (Jean-Paul Close) during this weeks podcast. We discuss the online development of a liquid democracy using equinox events such as the Connectathon and online emerging platforms such as CODO Earth.
Note: the interview starts at 07.33 due to a malfunction sound plug that produced some issues throughout the beginning of the recordings. Our apologies for that.
A liquid democracy, in our definition is one where we engage in shared responsibilities around our local and worldwide issues without waiting every four years to pick people to do this for us. Sustainocracy is an example of such a liquid democracy in which our responsibilities are defined around a few essential values for the sustainable resilience and existence of our human species.
One world, one people, one commitment
Gradually the evolutionary puzzle pieces start falling together.
- People start becoming aware that the artificial hierarchies of power and financial interests do not serve our sustainable existence anymore. They are willing to engage into new action driven commitments to sustainable and shared progress.
- Self aware institutions become aware of their 1 x WIN vulnerability and develop into authentic 4 x WIN societal partners.
- Gradually the essential values expressed in Sustainocracy are developing as an ethical and moral guidance of cooperation between people and institutions.
- Technology allows us to build a global society based on equality, servant institutions, shared responsibilities and values in real time.
Social media impact on our youth
The Techrouter project involves 30 youth workers from 9 different countries. They came together in the Netherlands to discuss the impact of social media on our younger generations and how to create a learning mechanism to safeguard them from all the negative aspects (core value: safety and respect). Especially the early teens are vulnerable since they are still in a competitive growing up phase in which they are highly innocent, influenceable and unaware of the impact of their actions on others. In times when they should be building a positive self image the tendency is to be guided by the abundant fakeness of social media. No parental or adult embedding is there to help them because their actions are mostly invisible, they have no reference models and parents are often inexperienced in this world of virtual interactions.
A whole week of creative interaction is making the difference. Here are some photos of the process. The gathering is financed via Erasmus+. The objective is to create something that can be used in the different countries and cultures during several months, gathering feedback and linking with new programs.
Sustainocracy, the new democracy 