Crowdocracy Quotes

“We are rendered powerless; our voice is silenced by whatever form of elitism is working through a political system that gives us virtually no say while appearing to allow us to participate. As French philosopher Paul Valéry suggested, ‘Politics is the art of preventing people from becoming involved in affairs which concern them.’3”
― Alan Watkins, Crowdocracy: The End of Politics

“a wicked problem: 1. Is multi-dimensional 2. Has multiple stakeholders 3. Has multiple causes 4. Has multiple symptoms 5. Has multiple solutions, and 6. Is constantly evolving”
― Alan Watkins, Crowdocracy: The End of Politics

“Crowdocracy is based on this fundamental Integral principle that ‘everybody is right’ (or ‘true but partial’), and it is simply a putting into action of that principle in as many places as possible when we want truly ‘full-spectrum’ solutions to our problems – particularly our ‘wicked problems’ – where one of the reasons they are ‘wicked’ is that not a wide enough range of developmental and Integral diversity has been taken into account to produce real solutions.”
― Alan Watkins, Crowdocracy: The End of Politics

“What seems apparent, from what we already know, is that the application of this smart crowd principle will increasingly be applied to more and more areas across the societal board, and will end up being a truly evolutionary advancement in culture and consciousness driven by the evolutionary imperative of more and more recognised individuals having more and more say and actual participation in their own affairs. If you want to get really metaphysical about it, a virtually unanimous tenet of the world’s great Wisdom Traditions is that every human being has, not only a relative, conventional, finite Self, but an real, true, ultimate, and infinite Self (which is universally said to be one with God or Spirit). And evolution is, in one of its deepest aspects, the unfolding of more and more individuals as God-realised, as being a genuine manifestation of Spirit here on earth. With each stage of evolution, more and more individuals are accorded the dignity and integrity of being realised as a true manifestation of God – and this is directly manifested in the numbers of individuals that, at each stage of governance, are allowed to have a hand in the actual running of that governing process. This evolutionary unfolding is accompanied by greater and greater degrees of education, of higher ethical capacities, higher capacities for love, care, and compassion; and higher and wider degrees of consciousness and awareness – as their ultimate Spiritual nature comes more to the fore via evolutionary unfolding. Every”
― Alan Watkins, Crowdocracy: The End of Politics