Populus Manifesto

Feb 25, 2006 23:00

The future of the society is in a responsibilization of the people towards itself and the parallel desire of the people to help others and use others to get help. This will be possible as people will have more confidence between themselves, more confidence in them. The increase in interpersonal communication of the modern civilization should contribute to make all realize, from an early stage, that we are all equal. The project of civilization has gone far in gathering us in an architecture of rules and environments that we never choose. For the social contract to be intact and viable, working fluently as an engine, we must get advantage of it, of the social promiscuity, of the forced gatherings (school, work, urbanization, nation) and build corresponding social structures on top of the natural ones (family, friends). As members of social structures, we need, can and have to request the social links to be in effect and bring us goods and relative wealth.
As a consequence the social network must force us to depend on each other, to expect human interaction, artificially built, with real results. The communist project cannot and couldn't succeed without the will of the people to share, to merge forces, to feed social constructs on multiple levels.
The system {government - individual / world job market / world population} is like a planetary system : none of the elements exchange anything but cohabit by arbitrary rules. The system lives with ghastly missing links, appalling emptiness and disarticulation.
Capitalism is successful in that it does lead some societies/groups to better living condition and intellectual, scientific progress but with the cost of garbage, friction, vast internal chaos : 3 steps forward, 2 steps backward...etc.
That said, it might be well fit for the current mind set of the people. Let's look around us, can we imagine our neighbors sharing their properties, their wealth? (And here goes ussr...)
A proposition is to establish responsibility based on geographical localisation : according to the law, I would be responsible for the people around me, responsible if my neighbor becomes a murderer, if he's sick, as much as I can be humanly in touch : responsibility does not imply to bare the pain load, but at least to be able to tell, to respond. I am able to respond about my surroundings, I can see and I understand and I can at least talk about it. I assess immediate situations, along with others, I can exchange my understanding about it. This would mean that society assumes you have a basic education and understanding of its structure. In that respect, society currently treats all of us as invalids, dead.
Vote, as the only legal commandment, is a mockery, or a sophism, or an illusion.
No action is required from us, not one.
The society has the duty to make us responsible of ourselves, we have the duty to force the society to be responsible for itself.
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