Occupy The Bottom

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The other night, an Occupy caller asked a vital question on Mike Malloy’s Show: Should the Occupy Movement become politically active?  This critical question danced around through days of online discussions.  I listened intently and now want to my inject my thinking on the subject.

 

Historically, Top Down Management has been the primary method of control in most organizations.  That it has been the acknowledged “standard” can be traced from humans all the way back into the most primal members of the animal and insect kingdoms.  One of the most vital aspects of any management process is communications and most communications are currently relayed from the top to the bottom.  However, with the advent of our present day technology, we are able to not only reverse the communication paths, but to expand them horizontally, as well.

 

The Occupy Movement is ideally positioned to create a new, powerful and efficient Bottom Up Management system that would replace the out-dated Top Down paradigm.  Here is how I envision it working:

 

A person who wants to join the Occupy Movement would log into a secure website and provide a few, necessary details about themselves: name, email address and zip code.  Access to, and even expansion of, this information would at all times be monitored by the individual.  Upon hitting Enter, as most of us have experienced, we would be advised to check our email and respond to a confirmation link.  Once a member has securely registered and again logged in, they will join other members who have the same zip code.  All of the members with a common zip code can create, debate and vote on local issues in their exclusive forum.  Additionally, they will all have access to their county, state, National and International forums with the same abilities to create, debate and vote on issues.  The real time votes will be automatically and continually maintained in numerical and chart formats.  Additionally, registered as well as non-registered site visitors will be allowed access to the voting results.

 

Of course, the over-riding and long-term value of this whole system is contingent upon an un-encumbered, reliable and accurate public electoral process, but it would be a step toward providing ALL of us with the ability to provide input into a technologically advantaged, 21st Century, Bottom Up, process of self-determination.

 

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