News, Visionaries | August 27th, 2006
I just found a very cool tool for visionaries and revolutionaries taking a stand for something. It’s called PledgeBank and it’s a way of generating commitments by having others see that they won’t be acting alone, but rather they will only be obligated to act if the agreed upon total number of people have also agreed to act with you.
Of course, it can be even more inspiring to take a stand regardless of what others choose to do. I could see the use for a variation of the pledge, where an individual can say “I am doing this regardless,” or something similar. It sounds a bit weak to have the pledges be “I commit do X, but only if ____# other people commit to do it too.”
Still, a very cool concept, and yet another way the internet is empowering those of us who are williing to take a stand for what matters, live from our own vision and inspire others to stand with us.
(I was invited to sign a new initiative by the Free State Project, as I am seriously interested in the idea of what kind of world could be created with human beings placing their trust in vision force, rather than political force. It’s a bit radical, but hey, I think there’s something worth standing for, and I’m already committed to the original Free State Project pledge.)
Comments? Other resources for mobilizing grass roots efforts? Post below.
Alex
Sep 26th, 2006Ah, Indeed, Where does the Truth/ Lie?
Just as Clinton took credit for the great economy during his tenure (of which he /his policies had NO part), The Bush Bunch takes credit for being the only defender of a secure America. What would you expect?
The problem is neither of these spins is anywhere close to the truth….What is the truth? We may never know. Why? Because our media is forever feeding us sound bytes, celebrity tripe, and scandal and failing to report the news that matters in depth, so that we might know the truth. What was REALLY happening in the world during the 18 MONTHS that the news spent on Clinton/Monica/&BJs? Were the BJs really that important, compared to a state-hosted, well-funded terror organization carrying out their designs against us & preparing for 9/11? But the News put it out there and we all just ate it up…shame on us. But as far as assassinating the wholre noble field of in-depth investigative reporting and replacing it with talking heads and fluff, blame the media for pandering to the lowest common denominator of couch-potato-soap opera watchers- miuch more profitable and less risky than helping thinking people keep a grip on what’s happening in the world (much less risky, too: after all the Feds do control broadcast licensing and after the Patriot Act’s passage could probably get a broadcaster on charges of treason for reporting anything negative about the Bush Bunch)
Don’t remember the author, but “He who values security over freedom deserves neither.”