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Adesso basta (Simone Perotti)
Rincorrere il benessere senza più libertà
Ma quanto tempo deve ancora passare perché la memoria di una dittatura tenga sopita l’evoluzione di un concetto come la libertà? Votare, far parte di una democrazia, è importantissimo, e chi lo nega! Ma per quanto tempo il sentimento di questa conquista costerà l’adesione…
Un kibbutz moderno e le bio-regioni
Un kibbutz moderno, originato dall’opportunità economica ed esistenziale e dalla convivenza delle differenze, dunque nulla di ideologico o di religioso, nulla di programmatico, al riparo dunque dal mutamento delle convinzioni nel tempo perché tutto giocato sulla concretezza…
Liquidfeedback: What A Genuine Democratic Process Looks Like | David Bollier
LiquidFeedback and online deliberative democracy
At a time when representative democracy is increasingly revealed as ineffectual, phony or both – a kabuki theater of empty formalisms that disguise the offstage conspiracies of corporate/state elites – many people look to the Internet for salvation. After all, the Internet is…
Mission Statement « Liquidfeedback – Interactive Democracy
Liquid democracy and delegated votes
A representative democracy is founded on the principle of elected individuals representing the people. Usually you elect a representative (individual or party) for a fixed term – if you change your mind during the term – you can’t do much about it. Also representatives usually…
The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray)
9/11 and the end of middle-class society
Looking back on it today, the answer doesn’t seem to make that much difference. Either way, what 9/11 did was trash the last vestiges of middle-class society. For decades—for most of the twentieth century, in fact—the broad-based economic power of the middle classes had been…
Europe has only one political party
And from the kaleidoscope of contributions, a crude but effective analysis not only of the invasion of the Middle East, but of the political situation of England and Europe as a whole was spreading through hundreds of thousands of people: The various European governments…
Afraid a world parliament would actually work?
Later that year George Monbiot was to bring out The Age of Consent, the sequel to his success with Captive State. In it he tries to trace all economic and political problems back to a single source, lack of communication. Faithfully reflecting the spirit of the gatherings in…
The Book Of Dead Philosophers (critchley, Simon)
Dewey: philosophy as the general theory of education
Dewey sees education as the dynamic and continuous development of democratic life, what he called ‘reconstruction’, and rightly believed that society cannot transform itself without paying scrupulous attention to pedagogy. Dewey saw learning as more important than knowing and…