The power of the people

To bridge the gap of partisanship is core to democracies.  In a partisan state, the majority that rule dictate to the minority.  The citizens lose their ability to influence and end up with taxation without representation.  Not a democracy but an elected dictatorship.

This is where creativity must exist.  Compromise is neither here nor there.  For example, if one party wants to lower taxes and the other party wants to raise taxes, a compromise would leave the taxes where they are, a result neither parties want.  The solution must be found through creative search.

I believe the power of the people is in creative search.

Sometimes a creative idea starts as just that, an idea in the world of thought.  The challenge in that situation is to adopt the idea into a practice, bring the idea down from the world of thought to the world of action.  In Fernando Flores’s and Peter Denning’s terminology, through conversation between parties, not communication, the ideas can be adopted into practice.  The gap between thought and action is bridged through speech actions.

The reverse situation is a challenge.  Given a desired practice, how do we search for the inventive idea to support it?

A reality perceived by an individual is interpreted by the individual.  The individual’s perception is internal to the individual, trapped inside the individual’s senses.  Thus, the desired practice is observed and interpreted by the individual and limited by the individual’s creative thought and wisdom.  The power of the people to provide external perception is significantly different than that of the individual’s internal perception.  Two witnesses create a new reality that is binding on others, while a single witness cannot.

If we want to search for an idea that supports the reality where taxes are both raised and lowered, we need to cultivate the collective conscious.  The power of the people.