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| Mar 15, 2010 3:21 am |
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Transition to benevolent anarchy |
Ken Hilving
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Today governments share a common status - perpetual existence. Now the members may change with elections, or coup d'état, or revolution, but the change assumes a perpetual government scenario.
What if we changed that assumption? What if we established our governments for a set period of time with a set agenda, a list of goals or objectives, to accomplish on behalf of the governed? When the time was up, we would either extend the government for another set length of time to complete the goals or objectives, set a new government to deal with a new set of goals and objectives, or allow the government to disband because our goals and objectives were met and we had no new ones.
It may not be as far fetched as it first sounds. I am working on a few very limited cooperatives that are single purpose driven and are dissolved once that purpose is achieved. The cooperatives are groups of citizens with a common goal and an opportunity to all gain from working together to achieve it. Once the goal is achieved, there is no further reason for the particular cooperative to continue, although there may be reasons to form new cooperatives along the same lines for new common goals.
As long as the cooperation is beneficial, it exists. Well defined, voluntary, mutually agreeable, or of the people, by the people, for the people. Without a common need, a peaceful state of anarchy reigns.
Even better, there are no campaigns, no lies, no unfulfilled promises. Everyone who joins knows the what and the when and at what personal cost. If enough people aren't interested, it never gets created.Private Reply to Ken Hilving (new win) |
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