Facebook feedback
I repost my articles to FB, and see what happens. I love doing that because the results tend to be unexpected. Here’s what happened yesterday after passing on An Untested Idea on Voting:
PS: I thought about editing all the fb-ness out of it: the timing, the likes, the language changes, but opted to leave them in for the sake of transparency.
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Eduardo Giménez-Cassina Bergareche Maria, me parece que lo has explicado MUY bien… me gusta, me piace, lo posteo. los scans are at times a bit hard to read , pero besides that los diagramas son preciosos. AWESOMENESS.20 hours ago ·
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Luke Smitham ”I have the feeling that systems could be revised to promote collaboration and mingling and interdisciplinarity” I think your idea is good, but that one sentence would be the obstacle.
From a Belgian experience, politicians are too involved in navel-gazing and acting like stubborn donkeys to actually collaborate in this way.
The constant fear of losing their position in parliament also doesn’t allow career politicians (which alas we are now run by) to show any sign of perceived ‘weakness’ such as cross-party consensus, etc…
In Belgium, the voting system has led and need for coalitions to stagnation on a political level for over a year now. It has yet to be decided it this has been necessarily bad to for the country though. With the politicians removed, people have actually just go on with finding general solutions to the problems, not ones that appease certain voters.
So, maybe it is the solution, let the politicians argue amongst themselves whilst the rest of the country just gets on with what needs to be done!20 hours ago · -
Maria Gil Ulldemolins hey guys, I really, really appreciate this! Eduardo Giménez-Cassina Bergareche, they are not scans, they are SketchBookExpress illustrations (it’s a free app for Mac and Android, it’s just like a blank paper). Luke Smitham, I find that thrilling. I actually had this even sillier idea of a designocracy where everything was decided from a design thinking perspective (making citizens have a “government duty” like they might have “jury duty”, making them attend workshops for generation of ideas and feedback…)20 hours ago · ·
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Luke Smitham I think that the idea of ‘civil duty’ is a good one. The only modern parallel is the conscription into the German army recently, whereby people could chose to do ‘social’ activities for good rather than play with guns. I’ve heard it was a very good initiative (sadly it’s all ended now I believe)
Direct democracy and involvement is what you’re professing to (I think) which works in Switzerland.
From our point of view, I would advocate for such workshops in people’s involvement in their streets, communities, neighbourhoods, where not only they have a tangible direct interest but also the motivation to improve things.20 hours ago · -
Nerina Cocchi Luke very nice to meet you. Yes, this is exactly what I think should be happening, and is in fact happening in a way. Just, as per usual, there needs to be a decision as whether there are governments for people or people for governments.20 hours ago ·
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Nerina Cocchi And I don’t mean to be polemic. I just mean that too often I feel that government and people are not acting, thinking and creating on the same level. As if they lived on different planets. And that is so not what should be happening. As an artist, I feel the gap every day, and I find that frustrating, because it is a lot of energy wasted.20 hours ago ·
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Luke Smitham The flipside of direct democracy is that it can lead to certain situations that may be considered undesirable (notably regarding seemingly racism / xenophobic outcomes in Switzerland) But, if democracy is to be direct, we can’t really then disapprove of the outcomes (but possibly gives us reason to complain about the education system)20 hours ago · · 1
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Luke Smitham Hi Nerina, indeed I agree, too often we the people seemingly are being pushed aside with regards to decisions that affect all of us.19 hours ago ·
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Maria Gil Ulldemolins Oh dear. This is great. Discussion, yay! a few thoughts, Luke, I’ve been told about the direct democracy (by Eduardo Giménez-Cassina Bergareche) and in a way there are similarities, yes. There is a site that Manuel Manrique Gil showed me that demanded a change towards that in Spain, I think. He can correct me on this and add the link.19 hours ago ·
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Maria Gil Ulldemolins I will also work on the designocracy idea (the one on workshop based governance), it might lead to some other nice discussion :) Also, can I be really naughty and snap this conversations and post them as a continuation of the post? I can delete your names if you prefer anonymity.19 hours ago ·
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Nerina Cocchi No need for me to be anonymous. And you can in fact link it to http://inoutpostm.wordpress.com/ which I believe happens to be perfectly on topic.19 hours ago · ·
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Maria Gil Ulldemolins thanks guys. Nerina, your link is in the friends section now :) and I’ll link the conversation too :)19 hours ago ·
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Nerina Cocchi Maria, Andrea just commented on your description: “I want to be on Maria’s friends page too. I wanna be so well publicized too.” This is, I believe, the utmost compliment after a 2h30 meeting with our administrators about how we need people doing communication. Thank you. And, I think you’ll get a counterpost from me, sooner very much rather than later.19 hours ago · · 1
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