POLITICS IN A NEW PARTICIPATORY PERSPECTIVE

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http://www.ecophilosophy.org/articles/cosmicnews/sep.html

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Within spiritual democracy it is all different. The world is a sanctuary. The human is the shepherd and the guardian of this sanctuary. His chief guiding value is reverence. His ultimate aspiration is self realization — the life which is in harmony and peace with oneself and with other people. The main vehicle of the realization of our new eschatology is deep participation.

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The consequences of the participatory universe are bubbling in various spheres of learning and of human endeavor. But in politics we are stuck in the old paradigm of shallow participation: you participate in production and consumption of material goodies. A far cry from genuine participation!

We need to look deeper into the nature of participation and its various forms. There is a shallow participation and a deep participation. There is genuine participation and pseudo participation. You need to know which is which as we engage in co-creative process with the universe and social reality.

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The trouble starts when in some forms of our pre-preprogrammed participation, regulated by explicit and accepted rules, there are some forces and players who manipulate the scene from behind. We are led to believe that we participate. Yet, sooner or later we feel duped and frustrated because our participation is rubber stamping of what has been decided by Powerful Players behind the scene. These are the ones who truly participate, while we are mere pawns, to whom is given an illusion of participation. When the process of participation is manipulated and controlled behind the scene, we are but poor little actors on the front scene. We do not truly participate. This is what I call pseudo-participation, or shallow participatio

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This is an awesome article.

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I kind of enjoyed this.;)