Philosopher Democracies...
Open Source Community
Decision Making
Trust In Humanity
Decision Making
Trust In Humanity
PhD Direct Self Governance is an event Designer/Producer that uses a system of tools and processes that will guide groups and communities of any scale, to make high quality decisions and manage themselves.
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Why Philosopher Democracies
Socrates argued for a Philosopher King, an individual raised from birth, immersed in philosophy studies to embolden the idea of mutual self-interest. People who come together to directly manage their own communities, regions, nations, through the process of studying and managing all aspects of their community, come to know the concept of mutual self-interest automatically, and without the single point of failure risk of a king. |
Decentralized Self Governance
Concentrated/Centralized power is dangerous, an undeniable historical consistency, which is why even the Philosopher King concept eventually fails. By keeping power at its source - with individuals, power is balanced across the community. This ensure checks and balances are not monopolized by corruptible fiefdoms, but are maintained by all the people of any sized community. Political Leaders are less necessary. |
Not Leaders, Our Employees
People & communities coming together to make their own decisions and maintain responsibility for their own lives.
Our current systems say: 'vote, let us take care of you, ignore how things work.' It is therefore no surprise that people inevitably become politically lethargic. PhD says: 'Study, Learn, Dialogue, Act. Be the participant you were meant to be.' Self discovery and management/governance is the birthright of community members. PhD Enables and exemplifies powers of the population. |
Delegation of Power is Flawed...
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From the PhD paper:
"When presented with opportunity, people rise to incredible challenges.
H.G. [Hierarchical Government] promotes apathy and sloth. It wants docility and subservience among its population. PhD promotes participation, involvement, a chance to learn about every aspect of a community and how to problem solve, to EVERY member of the community who accepts to be part of a Discovery Group. And their findings are spread to the entire community to ruminate upon and judge for themselves the merit of the proposals. The entire population becomes very involved in learning even the minutest detail of what it takes to run their community.
PhD activates the people.
"When presented with opportunity, people rise to incredible challenges.
H.G. [Hierarchical Government] promotes apathy and sloth. It wants docility and subservience among its population. PhD promotes participation, involvement, a chance to learn about every aspect of a community and how to problem solve, to EVERY member of the community who accepts to be part of a Discovery Group. And their findings are spread to the entire community to ruminate upon and judge for themselves the merit of the proposals. The entire population becomes very involved in learning even the minutest detail of what it takes to run their community.
PhD activates the people.
Growing participatory and deliberative democracy.
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What is Deliberative Democracy?
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Democracy When the People Are Thinking
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What is Deliberative Democracy?
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Skepticism about Deliberative Democracy
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Getting democracy right
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