diff --git a/FAQ.md b/FAQ.md index 28b56a9..2e95605 100644 --- a/FAQ.md +++ b/FAQ.md @@ -130,4 +130,19 @@ A. We ignore this issue in a creative and usefully way, if you won’t a voice s Q. I think you could consider Sociocracy as an alternative to the lottery system -A. #KISS and human has MUCH MORE POWER than complexity, if people can’t understand the tools they cannot use them in creative and human ways - mess is good. The project is more IMPORTANT for what it does not do than for what it does. \ No newline at end of file +A. #KISS and human has MUCH MORE POWER than complexity, if people can’t understand the tools they cannot use them in creative and human ways - mess is good. The project is more IMPORTANT for what it does not do than for what it does. + + + +Q. Apologies, I hope this didn’t seem like a personal attack. As a middle-aged white guy, I was using it as an example of something I see a lot and am trying to figure out how to solve, that’s all + +A. Nothing personal, more am talking about a systematic problem of a class/groups of people, as you say likely “middle-aged white men” who find it impossible to see things have value, even though the is a deep and long history they likely no little about. It’s a kinda poverty in thinking and care that is endemic in late era #deathcult + +" Distilled, grassroots, radical governance is a good fit for the fediverse. + +This working practice comes from 30 years of building from The Tyranny of Structureless tick box list. + +Social change groups have worked in this way to challenge and change power structures on the ground. Some examples of Social change groups: from squats, protest camps, climate camps; to indymedia, Reclaim the Streets; to XR and even Occupy. +Rainbow Gatherings are a working example of this grassroots governance. They have been going on for 50 years and the core is still based on the founding traditions which came from the Vietnam War - not the hippy dippy origins that people talk about. + +From the perspective of a radical, grassroots, social technologist this is distilled into a codebase, as a “permissionless” roll-out of frameworks for social groups to form and see/govern themselves."