A Village, or your neighbourhood, spends a lot of time on social media, which has led to feelings of loneliness, and isolation.
We go about our lives only having surface level interactions with our neighbours, co-workers the list goes on.
With direct democracy you could begin decentralising your government today, and all it takes is to start is a picnic, a potluck dinner, or a brunch and because you don’t know or trust these people, you don’t even have to hold this event at your house.
Some meeting places include; a park (on fine days), local school hall, or even at a club, once you begin to trust and know these characters you can start breaking off into smaller overlapping groups and have dinner parties, themed nights the list goes on.
Starting, is the hardest part, after this, it’s all about data collection and systems, the people come, you each explain the outcomes you are trying to achieve, then seek out to get it all done (take lots of photos to show where this little community started).
Topics to begin with are:
- neighbourhood watch/latest thefts in the area.
- crop and plant swaps.
- people’s professions.
- local transport or lack of one if this is the case in your area.
- participation within your suburb.
Start off with this list, this builds a quick win together, now you’re a team, working together, to build trust in the community and achieve a common goal, while including everyone.
This village will become a place to discuss opportunities to take back your councils, turn them into a decentralised region.
The idea is “of the people”, discussing and acting “for and by the people”, make your region profitable so you can pay off the councils debt, then, start reducing rates, and ultimately build the community you want.
Buying assets to improve your lives is how our grandparents achieved these outcomes, paid for by the profit of your community’s efforts, now you have the whole community working together, rather than a council working on its own interests dictating change to the community.
Remember it’s not politics its cleaning and making improvements to your house that you own, when you have debt, you don’t own it your just an investor and the long term renter.
Here is a photo of our village on the west coast when we started.
