tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8441439.post114633804033763718..comments2023-11-19T17:31:49.939+00:00Comments on Bristling Badger: nice n sleazyUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8441439.post-1146567254826172902006-05-02T11:54:00.000+01:002006-05-02T11:54:00.000+01:00dv, a change to people not allowing others to wiel...dv, a change to people not allowing others to wield vast power, a change to those entrusted to carry out tasks for the wider community to understand that the nature of their position is as someone who helps rather than a way of lording it over people.<BR/><BR/>Call me wildly optimisitc about humanity, but I think we're smart enough to run things ourselves, I think centralising power only ever corrupts and makes those who wield it work against their stated mission. Decentralising power - abolishing it where possible - can return humanity to a state where people are in a position to affect the things that directly affect them; conversely, people would not have the power to affect things that don't affect them.<BR/><BR/>I think we're bright enough to come up with systems far more equitable and just than centralised power for profit.<BR/><BR/>I have no clear manifesto for an exact shape of such a changed world, and I'd distrust anyone who did. If a system is going to be fair and inclusive to everyone, it has to be visioned and enacted by everyone rather than imposed.<BR/><BR/>I'm interested in helping people understand that possibility, starting to see the potential reality of their shaking off being downtrodden and disempowered, and the enlivening of hearts with high hopes.<BR/><BR/>Of course, those currently at the top of the pile are unlikely to move over without making a fuss. But then, that's what people though under Caucescu in Romania a week before he was deposed.<BR/><BR/>It's astonishing how deeply we accept the idea that these liars are in charge of us, rather than the other way around.<BR/><BR/>When the government outsources work to their mates companies at fargreater cost than if it were done in house, the public are not allowed to know the exact terms and figures involved; it's covered by 'commercial confidentiality'.<BR/><BR/>Except that the government is supposed to be acting on our behalf. It's like buying a house but your solicitor won't tell you how much you're about to spend.merrickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10959849087751101034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8441439.post-1146445872033294832006-05-01T02:11:00.000+01:002006-05-01T02:11:00.000+01:00To what?To what?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com