In relation to my Fourth Turning vision, which was in fact an allusion to the book by the same name, I want to share the salient works of Robert David Steele. Here is an article from the Guardian discussing the cusp of a revolution already set upon us.
“We are at the end of a five-thousand-year-plus historical process during which human society grew in scale while it abandoned the early indigenous wisdom councils and communal decision-making,” he writes in The Open Source Everything Manifesto. “Power was centralised in the hands of increasingly specialised ‘elites’ and ‘experts’ who not only failed to achieve all they promised but used secrecy and the control of information to deceive the public into allowing them to retain power over community resources that they ultimately looted.”
“We are at the end of a five-thousand-year-plus historical process during which human society grew in scale while it abandoned the early indigenous wisdom councils and communal decision-making,” he writes in The Open Source Everything Manifesto. “Power was centralised in the hands of increasingly specialised ‘elites’ and ‘experts’ who not only failed to achieve all they promised but used secrecy and the control of information to deceive the public into allowing them to retain power over community resources that they ultimately looted.”
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| Matrix on the preconditions for revolution |
There are a number of red flag catch phrases in the article to be wary of, but in terms of the impending positive revolution I think he may be on to something. I now have to update my 2017 reading list with The Open Source Everything Manifesto. In fact I'm going to dive right in because defining this new revolution is my new obsession.
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