Forum Post: Leaderless Protest
Posted 13 years ago on Oct. 11, 2011, 12:17 p.m. EST by HeadlessNick
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I have read many times that these protests are without direction because they lack leadership.
It is a great problem that we do not know how to build a system which governs itself.
We have tried with capitalism, with social Darwinism, and failed. We attempted to create a system which would be self balancing. It is now clear that our first draft for this system was naively built.
In order to find a replacement for capitalism we need to find a draft for an alternative self balancing system.
We as children of the age of the internet, see the solution as 'emergence'. We will talk to each other, a lot, and then the decision for what is to be done will emerge from ourselves. This solution appears naive to many, but it has many parallels in the cutting edge of our science. A new kind of science has begun to breed a new kind of democracy.
The protesters are correct, it essential for this protest to be leaderless if it has any chance of achieving systemic change. It must be a prototype for the system which it is advocating.
I don't believe you have grasped my message. Also I don't think the movement has decided what it is advocating. It is still in flux.
At first I thought you were gonna say Jesus, but then you tricked me with your Democracy solution.
However your conclusion is actually incorrect. I don't think the movement is advocating a system wipe-out. Just a debug.