It's more than that. It's how you participate to change the things.
There is now an alternative to the legal system for establishing
contracts between people. The cryptoanarchists were talking about this 2
decades ago but the time wasn't ready. Now all these concepts are
happening because of the blockchain. It isn't only finance but things
like communication, identity, ... new markets are going to emerge.

And some of us can't use the legal system. Drugs is one of the biggest
now, but it will be everything from seeds to digital healthcare.

The fundamental unit of a community is the assembly, and then we scale
and people start to use representatives. But we can do better than that.
The system we have is real shit. We can do much better.

And this isn't going to happen by pleading or trying to reform existing
hierarchical structures. It's going to happen by establishing your new
idea, unfettered by existing frames and being competitive.

This is what I love about the CIC in Spain. They are seeking to offer
healthcare, education, transport, energy, housing and food by creating
their own internal economy protected on the outside using a cooperative
legal framework. People participate in the cooperative (and so improve
it) because the cooperative offers them something useful. This is how
our public infrastructure should work. And with the new Digital
Autonomous Cooperative or the more specialised Autonomous Infrastructure
Entity, the bureaucrats and middlemen are obsoleted through free market
competition and new technology.

On Mon, 2013-11-18 at 23:47 +0000, Mevan Babakar wrote:
> So my job is to get people who don't give a shit about democracy to
> get involved in it. And for the longest time I've been arguing that
> sure you can say that you can tear it down and put up something new,
> but really thats often juvenile and not thought through, if you want
> to change something you have to get your hands dirty and get involved
> in the fundamental values and systems that govern it.
>
>
> The only other person I have heard made this argument in the media is
> Peter Sunde:
>
>
> http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-11/18/peter-sunde-hemlis-political-apathy
>
>
> I am now obviously smitten. What do you guys think? Is there anything
> really more valuable than a vote? Or is a vote worthless? c.f. Brand
> vs Paxman
>
>
> A lot of people make the arugment "voting is worthless because the
> people you elect are all the same, the system is always the same" so
> they don't get involved. But then how do you change that without
> getting involved? Standing for the people who aren't being
> represented? It's not an exclusive club. Its a malleable system that
> you can help shape. Is this a lost cause?
>
>
> These are my thoughts. I would appreciate yours.
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