Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Thoughts on E-mocracy...


If one were to have a truly E-mocracy party how would one go about it?
There is still a long way to any form of political change… 

No matter where you go, it’s still some sort of two party system… 
A majority dictatorship, where big bucks dictate the public opinion…
This is the general idea of a working, equal, fair democracy…
And all of us here know how that’s working out for the world…
And we all know that a consensus decision form of process is not only the only way forward, it’s also doable and real…
How do you make Twitter / IRC bigger, easier and better…  ( So average
Joe and Josephine Schmo can be a part of it ) 

How do you make it work on a large fucking scale and play by some of their rules…
I’m thinking of a liquid transparent party one could get elected into a government in any country… 

An online party, where people could interact and share solutions and get inspired and sway the democracy to do the right thing… 
A world party, an anonymous party, a decency party…
A party legally voted into a government, with an online member base… 

With the possibility and responsibility to react quickly and decisively…
A mixture of IRC, twitter and forum… a very very 3-push-of-a-button easy, cross-platform GUI thing on top of an IRC engine on top of a TOR node… 

With twit-like feeds, blog/forum capability and anonymity…
Nothing gets people more involved than politics, weirdly enough… 

I would like to transform this here in to a more accessible way
of conducting politics… Essentially, cut out the corrupt middle-
man… The politician...
I would love to discuss every aspect of this…
 

Is such a program/platform/whatever even thinkable? 
Can it be done in any-which-way? Can it be partly done? Is some of it out there?
One should start with the accessibility for people and platforms...
Talking to the hive-mind of programmers and developers and philosophers and everyone who-could-attribute-with-something here…
Me no tech savvy…

Phase two…
Would be to incorporate this into real life politics in selected countries, up to an election… 

This would be applicable anywhere…
The idea is to make some sort of joint venture of resources in here… 

Wikileaks, Anonymous, The rest… With people out there… Grassroots, squats, youth politics organizations, concerts, festivals and so on and so forth…

They make sockpuppets, we make sockpuppeteers...


Scandinavia might be the ideal place to start, still low level of corruption and a strong independent media…
Wikileaks could go through the trove and find anything remotely interesting about that particular country up to an election…
Even if it goes down in flames, you would get a decent amount of exposure with an anonymous backed democratic party…

These are just thoughts…