OPEN SOURCE [and crowdsource] ALL THE THINGS! FREE ENERGY AND FREE INFORMATION FOR A FREE PEOPLE!

[edited to suggest voting for Neil deGrasse Tyson instead of the author]

By thinkahol

[Rational discussion is premised on facts like these (please acquaint yourself]:

http://www.reddit.com/user/thinkahol/?sort=top

http://www.reddit.com/r/ThingsWorthRepeating/

George Carlin ~ The American Dream

That said,

Why is there not an open source campaign being run for every public office? Why isn’t anyone running on a platform of free energy[i] and free internet[ii]? Haven’t people seen enough TED talks[iii]? We, as a species, have so many good ideas (and criticisms). Do we really have so little confidence in each other that we don’t trust each other enough to upvote the problems we care about most and the solutions we like best? How is government by elected representatives working out for you? Do you really feel like your voice is being heard? Remember this and this: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/68/Most_popular_vote_for_change.jpg

Why should one of the most popular ideas on change.gov (and rightly so) be dismissed in a sentence? Why is it still up to someone else to make the rules of how we decide to make collective decisions? Why isn’t it up to us? As soon as enough of us decide it is up to us, it actually is up to us; that’s how society works. We’re running for office (or run yourself and do the same). Write in Neil deGrasse Tyson everywhere. Let him be a Trojan horse of direct democracy. Take back your power. Start having a say in the laws that bind us. If you don’t have any power over decisions that affect your life you’re not free. Let’s become a free people again.

Everyone agrees corporations, banks and Feds have too much power. Congressional approval is hovering at historic lows and increasingly authoritarian laws are getting passed alarmingly quickly. This short list of grievances from a few months ago is already outdated[iv]. The U.S. government has said that it can kill you if it calls you a terrorist; it can lock you up without giving you a chance to prove your innocence. Let’s face facts people, America is no longer a free country[v]. Can you think of any definition of a police state that the U.S. doesn’t fit? What does consent of the governed even mean with our Top Secret Government? “The top-secret world the government created in response to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, has become so large, so unwieldy and so secretive that no one knows how much money it costs, how many people it employs, how many programs exist within it or exactly how many agencies do the same work.” Even The Economist at the heart of establishment journalism says, “Never in the civilised world have so many been locked up for so little.” Never ending war is the status quo[vi]. To how many countries do questions like, “Is the nation fighting in too many places?” even make sense?

Not to mention global warming will continue and may soon become irreversible and “every living system in the biosphere is in decline and the rate of decline is accelerating. There isn’t one peer-reviewed scientific article that’s been published in the last 20 years that contradicts that statement. Living systems are coral reefs. They’re our climatic stability, forest cover, the oceans themselves, aquifers, water, the conditions of the soil, biodiversity. They go on and on as they get more specific. But the fact is, there isn’t one living system that is stable or is improving. And those living systems provide the basis for all life.[vii]” Did I mention the eventual inevitability of an asteroid strike that we’re not prepared for.

All this while technological development is accelerating exponentially and we’re capable of doing more with less than ever before in history. Even solar power is following Moore’s Law now.

In 2010, 93% of all income growth in the United States went to the top 1%. It would be hard for a rising tide to lift fewer boats. You really don’t think we could figure out a healthier way to organize society if we put our minds to it? We can do this if we stop letting Big Business and Big Government stand in our way and forge our own future together, honestly and transparently.

“There comes a time when silence becomes betrayal.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

OPEN SOURCE ALL THE THINGS! FREE ENERGY AND FREE INFORMATION FOR A FREE PEOPLE!

“There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come.” – Victor Hugo