“Small comic based on the amazing words of Ursula K. Le Guin”.

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  • Aolley@lemmy.world
    8·
    6 months ago

    We agree that the current situation won’t change itself, and change to this system from inside of it would likely be stifled and repressed.

    I agree that we need to keep trying to find a better way, because there are many people are will certainly keep trying to make things worse for us.

    The first step is a better way to communicate between ourselves about what we want, why we want it, and how to enact our intentions.

    With the advent and use of the internet we now have the possibility for a new way to organize our collective wants.

    This system, which I call a consensus engine, would let us as a species make long term goals and work towards their fruition. Without some way to communicate that is less sustainable to misinformation I don’t see any way we can get out of this into something better.

    • Socsa@sh.itjust.works
      42·
      6 months ago

      You’ve described liberal democracy. The combination of individual freedom plus democracy is supposed to provide a framework for curating precisely the kind of political agency you describe.

      • volodya_ilich@lemm.ee
        31·
        6 months ago

        They’ve described the opposite. A collective, grassroots, democratic institution in which people can freely discuss their thoughts and political opinions and direct the policy of their country in that way, is less reminiscent of top-down political parties with representatives voted every 4 years as in liberal democracy, and more reminiscent of worker democracy or direct democracy as anarchists or communists defend.

        • snooggums@midwest.socialEnglish
          12·
          6 months ago

          They described democracy as implemented through parliaments.

          You are describing the US implementation’s flaws.