We've been talking at each other for a long long time. We been talking to our congresscritters for a long long time. And sometimes it feels as if a vital sense of connection is never there.
People want the Occupy group to come up with a list of demands and grievances but they already want to chew on the "Declaration" the group put out and want it "shortened" or want it to include something or other.
The people in Liberty Square are talking to each other and they are using consensus to determine what they put out. And consensus is damn hard but richly rewarding. Consensus has been used in previous group actions although it is not in normal use. It isn't democracy as we practice it, it is a slightly more purified democracy. Everybody gets a voice, everybody gets heard, anybody can object or block an action. And anybody can propose an action and it will be discussed at length until all objections have been met or the action is tabled.
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