Say “Yes” to International Online Democracy!

Have you ever found yourself in a store, looking for a particular product that you just can’t seem to find? You see an employee and you ask them “do you know where the “finish nails” are? “

The employee gets that funny smile on their face and says “yes, they’re right next to you.”

You look over and your hand is literally almost touching the thing that you were looking for… And yet you completely missed it.

I relate that situation to a quote that I will paraphrase here from Arthur Schopenhauer:

“The objective is not to see things that no one else can see but rather to see what everyone else sees and to think what no one else is thinking as we all see the same thing. “

Because of my conditions and upbringing as well as Louis L’Amour, I see freedom and democracy under attack and try and think of solutions, looking at current situations and trying to think what no one else is thinking.

All across the world today, people are trying to see the thing that no one else can see so as to protect and save world democracy while at the same time preventing the expansion of authoritarianism and communism across the world. This is especially true in Europe and Ukraine where Cuba, North Korea, Iran, Russia and others are all participating in the war against Ukraine and world democracy while being funded and directed by communist China.

Unfortunately, in the USA, we are so overwhelmed, passive, unconcerned and apathetic we seem incapable of thinking differently. As an example…have you seen the group Indivisible discuss how to unite us online? Do they have a well-coordinated strategy and tactics for online unity of action? Do they openly ask for ideas? Have you seen a competition(s) for ideas that promote online unity?

I recently attended a democratic workshop of 100+/-. As we were shown a list of California University Professors whose incomes and freedoms were under attack I spoke out in front of the speaker and the group… “What if all of us here were to each email the president of the university system in protest? “What a great idea!” the speaker said… as she then ignored the idea and not one other person helped inspire action?!

As people all across the world attempt to see the thing that no one else is seeing… I find myself looking at what everyone else is seeing and thinking what no one else seems to think.

If the pro-democracy citizens of the world were to unite online in one or more primary locations. If the pro-democracy citizens of the world were to accept and embrace their “response-ability™ and to unite online as citizen led and governed International Online Democracies… It would dramatically alter the future of world democracy and it would dramatically limit the expansion of authoritarianism and communism across the world!

Throughout everything that we will write and attempt to explain here there will be 1 underlying theme/law… The Law of Diffusion of Innovation.

“The Law” is clearly explained in the 3rd most viewed TED Talk in history seen here given by Canadian Simon Sinek @10:57. Whatever you do, even if you skip to that point in the video, you will be rewarded if you also watched the earlier parts of the video. https://www.ted.com/talks/simon_sinek_how_great_leaders_inspire_action

In a nutshell, “The Law” (established before the internet, VERY IMPORTANT) Clearly establishes that only 2.5% of us are required in order to achieve significant change in human behavior.

This begs the question, or rather begs all manner of questions but we will start with this one… Are you one of the 2.5% who will recognize that the answer to the following question is the thing that we are all missing, the one thing that it seems like no one else is thinking when we all look at the Internet?

I have asked over 50 people this simple question… “Do you access the Internet?”

Every single time that you ask someone that question, they will all look at the same situation that we all see and they will give you the same answer… “yes”.

I contend that we do not access the Internet, WE, are the Internet!

When you click on your mouse or tap your screen, you are not accessing the Internet… You are actively participating in granting the Internet access to you, why is that important?

The reason that this is so important is because it fundamentally and foundationally changes “self determination.” As you read this there are billions of people, pro democracy world citizens who reside in every country in the world and they are all thinking the exact same thing… “but what can I do?” If you think of that question from the standpoint that you are the one accessing the Internet, it becomes very easy to understand why people feel overwhelmed And incapable of making a difference or having any substantial impact of what is going on in the world, it is why we all see the same thing. That is why we are all thinking the same thing when we see The Internet As this overpowering force in our lives that we cannot seem to have any impact upon.

It’s almost like the old glass half empty, glass half full question… Or which came first the chicken or the egg, that’s an even better analogy.

We should all be perfectly clear… Human collaboration, politics, economics, society and religion, they all existed before the Internet. We, the human population of the world, we are the egg that hatched the Internet. If we do not grant the Internet access to us, or rather if enough of us unite online and establish pro-democracy filters that limit the internet’s access to us, this changes the whole equation.

At the moment that we unite in one or more primary locations online as pro-democracy citizens of the world we will never again think or ask ourselves “but what can I do” from a position of hopelessness or surrender.

The moment that we can get 2.5% of the pro-democracy citizens of the world to unite in just a few primary locations online, the question becomes “what can I do?”

As in; what are all of the “response-abilities™ that are available to me and to those that I collaborate with?

Buckminster Fuller said: “Don’t fight forces, use them. You never change things from within. If you want to change something, build a new model that makes the previous model obsolete. Dare to be naive. We are intended to be architects of the future and not its victims!”

Bernard Shaw said: “You see things and ask why, I dream things and ask why not?”

Why not at least experiment what would happen if the vast majority of pro-democracy world citizens were to unite in just a few primary locations online and conduct Political Science Experiments in International Online Democracy?

President Volodymyr Democracy and Ukraine could then become, and deserve to become, world leaders economically, socially and politically in honor of all they have done for world democracy.

Lets all unite online by emailing NATO or Governor Newsom as we launch a Brave New World of International Online Democracy, IOD Nations!

Slava Ukraine!