Agreeing with Karl who wrote...
>How about eliminating membership classes and organizational membership
>altogether?
Bravo.
>
>Classes are merely arbitrary categories.
Like the attempts to categorize the spectrum of historical human
lineage into colors, any form of classification which fractures human
beings into arbitrary groups, creates special interest groups,
power-struggles, and divisiveness.
>Classes create imbalances of power.
...which is the design of those who have power, to retain it. It
is a favorite trick of totalitarian leadership to demonize groups of
"others" using subhuman terms, which foments hatred and leads to
extermination. It begins with the process of "classifying", and
disintegrates from there. Dis-integration is the result. We are seeking
integration, which follows a leadership by-product called unity.
>Classes only serve to give classes with a small or cohesive population a
>bigger effective per-capita vote.
...or conversely to effectively reduce the effect vote of the
majority.
>
>The atomic unit of interest and representation is the individual human.
...and the majority group, therefore, is human beings, therefore,
the classification process is clearly designed to give the vocal minority
of self-interested parties who are promoting classification, an unfair
advantage.
>Organizations and corporations are formed of, operated by, and
>owned by humans.
...and at this point in time of generational transformation, where
many organizations and corporations which are led by people who do not
routinely use the Internet to communicate, it is transparently clear that
these organizations (which include ITU, WIPO, INTA, etc.) prefer to use
non-networked organizational means to organize and classify emerging
governance systems to their advantage.
>Let organizations and corporations obtain their vote via indirection --
>let them obtain their vote by convincing their so-called members to vote
>for the organization's slate.
Right. No "thing" should have a vote regarding an issue which
affects the social relationships and structures of that which is HUMAN.
>If the individuals use their vote the way the organization says, then that
>organization has power. If the individuals chose to ignore what the
>organization says, then that organization has no power.
Exactly.
>In other words, one person, one vote. One organization, zero vote.
Exactly.
>
>It seems to work reasonably well in most democratic countries -- Here in
>the US, neither General Motors nor AT&T gets a vote for Congress or the
>President. (Yet they don't seem to have trouble getting their issues
>heard.)
>
> --karl--
Simply stated.
Steve Page
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