Author: Eric Tolson
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Weaving Global Governance from Below: Neighbourocracy and Children’s Parliaments in India
A Case Study The Dream, the Web “Imagine a [… ] spider’s web in the early morning covered with dew drops. And every dew drop contains the reflection of all the other dew drops. And, in each reflected dew drop, the reflections of all the other dew drops in that reflection. And so ad infinitum.”…
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Power
Let’s take care of the power, that we can take care of ourselves → This article about power is part II of the series “Hints Towards a Liberation Sociocracy”. Read part I: ‘Otherness’. “No one liberates anyone, nor does anyone liberate himself alone. People liberate themselves in communion.” Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed Let…
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Lazy Consent: Care and Power
Consent and Lazy Consent In sociocracy, the default decision-making method is consent. Consent is clearly defined as “no objections”, and objections are defined as “a measurable concern that carrying out the proposal at hand will have a negative impact on our group’s ability to carry out our previously agreed upon aim (ie the very reason…
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Sociocracy’s Magic Number 3
Sociocracy’s Magic Number 3: A Tripartite Triad Tradition Introduction It has been stated time and again that every good story has a beginning, a middle and an end. I don’t know why that is, but it seems like we find some unspoken comfort in the 3-act narrative arch. And it’s not just with storylines, we seem…
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Sociocracy and Anarchism: Neither Gods nor Masters, but Systems and Structures
A little anecdote Some time ago, I was strolling down the park with a friend of mine and had briefly explained to her about sociocracy, a governance system that distributes decision-making power to decentralized, autonomous groups of people who participate in rounds as equals to deliberate and use consent to make decisions. After nodding a…
