From Occupy Movement to a Permanent
Political Force
“In order to change an existing paradigm you do not struggle
to try
and change the problematic model.
You create a new model and make the old one obsolete.”
Buckminster Fuller
We well know that our systems of governance are problematic
to put it mildly and if we follow Fuller’s advice then we ought to create
another model to make our existing system obsolete.
I am not sure how much more Fuller had to say about the
matter or what he was referring to specifically when he said or wrote that
statement. But in this article I will apply it in relation our plight with a
thoroughly corrupt political system.
The Occupy Movement is still a minority movement, despite
its growing popularity. Though it seems to be composed of people who are
thinking and dreaming big. Occupy participants are brimming with hope in action
and they have placed that hope not in some man or woman, but in themselves as a
collective with a just and common cause.
They seem determined to change not only their own broken
institutions, but they are also looking to band with Occupy Movements from
other countries in the hope of creating a better world for all concerned.
But how do we go about changing our monolithic and seemingly
all powerful institutions? They have mountains of money, they make the laws to
suit their aims and they command military-police forces. We are learning that we, the 99 percent, are
still much bigger and even more powerful than the Establishment.
But to achieve our goals we need more than greater numbers
and raw power—-we need organization. Every complex agency has an organizational
system that enables it to accomplish its goals. The Occupy Movement will need
to evolve from rag tag protest movement to a permanent political force in order
to achieve its goals. The Occupy Movement could very well be the seedling of
the exo-establishment structure (Citizens Assembly) we need to replace our
pathetic government. Let us please come together to make it so. Any bright
future for all concerned will depend on it. Make no mistake about it our
generation will decide either the legacy or the tragedy of humankind.
Indeed our future lies with the principles embodied by the
emerging good will organizations.
They hold the vision of a just and equitable society
striving to maintain an ecological balance between its own members and between
those it shares the planet with–the plants and animals.
These organizations represent the hope of humanity and it is
also where the rubber meets the road—principles in motion.
Collective action is the key which will unlock the creative
life-affirming and progressive potential inherent in the human spirit.
The lock is a system of inherited political-commercial
powers structures that are unwilling to change despite the undeniable evidence
that the dominant economic-political model is a dead end street.It is up to us
to oblige The System to reform. The System is bound by design to perpetuate
itself. Its democratic gestures big-fish-scary are illusions. Its strategy is to
pacify its subjects while it goes about business as usual.
The collective action I speak of must be greater than the
forces that keep emerging cultural movements at bay, locked down and largely
ineffectual.
Deforestation, resources depletion, pollution, social decay,
human rights abuse and militarism are still running rampant despite the fact
that the social and environmental justice movements are now over 40 years old.
It could be a case of too little and too late.
Please bear in mind that the political power structures we
are dealing with have honed their conquer and domination skills over the last
5000 years.
The ideas of egalitarianism and ecology as socio-cultural
ordering principles are by comparison embryonic and therefore easily contained
and suppressed by the 5000 year old prevailing culture of brute force.
They have well fortified positions and all the power one can
dream of. We, however, outnumber them by at least 100,000 to one and we are
armed with the principles of justice and 21st century communication
technologies.
Big-fish-scary-no-more.. The Pen and now the keyboard are
mightier than the sword. The various political uprisings around the world are
testament to a new wave of effective political dissent and reform tactics.
We have the rightful cause, we have the willingness and we
finally have the tools with which to course correct from the perilous path the
world is currently being led down.
What we lack is the organizational superstructure to
sufficiently amplify the will of the people through the multitude of existing
organizations.
In other words, in order to achieve the kinds of reforms now
demanded by the socio-ecological condition of the planet we need to pool our
resources together.
The many good will movements of the world are by themselves
insufficient to oblige governments to make the necessary reforms.
But a collective of movements would carry the necessary
clout to get the attention of governments.
It is not difficult to imagine a collaborative effort between the many
good will organizations of the world.
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