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"To say something is sensed, however, is neither to say that it is
irrational nor to say that it is too vague to be called political. For
example, many U.S. citizens eligible to vote perform their citizenship
by turning away from this minimal gesture of representation. This
absence, this apathy, this aversion is not, we argue, a rejection of
an attachment to the idea of democracy. It is the stillness of the
disappointed and the disconnected, the refused and the unrecognized.
We claim that these are emotions of political depression, not a flaw
in the body politics' nervous system."

But largely their manifesto talks about the symptoms of the broken
systems and does not seem to talk about
issues beyond the current voter audience or look at the shifted role
of governance and identifying pivot points or useful processes which
need to be repaired or newly developed to organise our sociely and
economy in a way which is more just and more sustainable.

How do we offer political franchise to values and voiceless aspects of
our habitat which
our current systems define as noise in the signal.
I agree we live in this world.

Fidelity of data about habitat ecology climate is difficult because we
have harnessed everything to commerce.

Science is harnessed to commerce and cannot speak effectively about
holistic systems because funding and intellectual property scope the
purpose of science around product development and then define the
limits on the ways that society can benefit from even those kinds of
works.

Access to knowledge practices help to loosen this up.
Finding ways to reward value which are not based in the restriction of
the product will be useful.
Finding ways to value complex networks of interrelated and different
components rather than groups of monoculture
is about whether we have bought our scale at the expense of an
understanding of how species climate and geography mesh and how we can
function in ways which sustain those relationships.

Do you or Feel Tank want to change the impression that voting is a
tedious irrelevance.
Do you or Feel Tank want to change governance so that voting or other
participation in an authentic
system is something which is a part of the way we value ourselves and
our individual and collective
impact on society and ecology.

One is better circus and the other is big work.
The first would probably be be more readily achievable and fun to =
effect.
The other is in the too hard basket yes. It is a shift in the way
value is defined and engineered.
It isnt going away though and we are starting to face the consequences
of putting sustainability and inclusive social practice in the too hard =
basket.

I am not sure where to start.
People like Lessig and Obama are having a go but it needs to be
something people all care about.

Interesting times

Janet
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