Inclusive Democracy

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Greece invented Democracy some 2500 years ago, it has been used ever since by many many groups. It is a composite word derived from Demos means small city (municipality) or a group of People (called it tribe) and Kratos meaning Country or better still State. It was a very successful system in the past and created many useful tools, objects and ideas that are valid to this day and are designed to improve life and raise People to a higher level of being. As time passed many factors have changed, (a couple are listed below):

• Populations increased and as such the unit of Demos has changed. We now have cities that have higher population than many Countries. During the origin of Democracy Demos was also equivalent to a Country. Each Demos was a separate Country, sometimes cooperating with each other and other times fighting with each other and killing a lot of People.. Some 60 years back Leopold Kohr wrote a wonderful book named “The destruction of Nations”. He was presenting his dream solution of our mess (this mess was building up for a long time and 60 years back was getting on high gear).
  His suggestion in short was that we should go back to the very small city states in order to solve our problems. His final question was: “will it ever happen??” and his answer was: “I don't think so.....”

• Democracy became the vehicle for many global legal scams which will take a book and more to list. Just to mention one small item called “shortings” in the stock markets. Using this tool global multi-scammers sell shares (with borrowed money) that they do not own, at a lower than market price values. They are hoping that this stock (or bond) will fall in value soon and when it does they buy it back with real money this time and let the price rise back (in fact they push it to go up) and at some point they sell the stock make a very large profit and pay back the loan of the borrowed shares, with a lot left over. Shortings are used a lot in hedge funds. Lately they were used to the point that they almost bankrupt some countries (Greece and some other).

In this first idea I will pick up on a variety of democracy that I discovered lately on the net: “Inclusive Democracy” http://www.inclusivedemocracy.org/ The founder is a special Greek Person “Takis Fotopoulos” who is a Political Philosopher and lives in London http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takis_Fotopoulos

Details of the system and how a transition will happen are still limited and here is the responsibility of all of us. Read the links and expand by adding your thoughts.

The links to Inclusive Democracy (I.D.) in addition to the above are:

http://www.inclusivedemocracy.org/journal/ Copies of the latest and back copies of the published Journal with links.
http://www.inclusivedemocracy.org/pd/index.htm For Greek speaking visitors.

And more links from those sites.

I tried to find a Forum or a Blog for I.D. but up to now I did not find something suitable for now, let us consider this section here as one Forum for Inclusive Democracy.