How the next generation of leaders create the next generation of governance systems and lead the world to peace, opportunity and wellbeing for all.

Citizen-led Systems Reinvention, or CLSR for short, is a broad concept; it needs a concrete example such as GenR Rising to make it real.  This post concentrates on the concept but references the Rising to ground it.

The Problem

The problem is the old governance game:

(There is always disconnect between the Powerful Few and the Powerless Many else there would be no need for the Armed Enforcers.)

The model is universal among

• political systems (monarchies, autocracies, plutocracies, oligarchies, theocracies, democracies)
• political philosophies (communist, socialist, liberal, conservative, libertarian)
• international persuasion (nationalist, globalist).

It doesn’t matter, the energy is the same - the few, the rules, the disconnect, the many, the enforcers. The proportions may change but the model holds.

Until recently.

Although it has been the same for millennia, it doesn’t work anymore, because we live in a different world.. There's little product-market fit.

Look around at the constant conflict.

What has changed?

Many things obviously, But the four key elements are:

1. The powerless many are educated - the bulk of the world’s intelligence and creativity resides in the powerless many. The old governance game worked well when the powerful few were the only ones who could read and the powerless many were uneducated peasants, but that is no longer the case.
2. Technology and the internet - the many have access to information and are connected to each other. They can see clearly that the few are certainly not brighter than they are - the cream doesn’t necessarily rise to the top. But the few do have more access to mass propaganda/disinformation tools. 
3. Consciousness is rising - education, connection and access to information inevitably leads to the awareness that the similarities of the Many are much greater than their differences, no matter where they are in the world. The atrocities in Ukraine and Gaza have appalled the Many no matter what the official line of the Few is. 
4. The pace of change is accelerating - everything combines into this element. The Powerful Few dictate the pace and the direction of any change in the rules especially with regard to cultural issues.

And there lies the rub.

The model requires an uneducated populace, a stable environment and the essential ingredient fear whether of the Lord, the king's army or being droned. That largely doesn't exist in the western world anymore.

What does exist is lack of an alternative and, more particularly, no way to create an alternative.

The Citizen-led System Reinvention Alternative

Stated simply, CLSR is a bottom-up approach to developing an alternative system of governance. It answers the question, "How do we change the governance system to reflect life in the 21st Century?

Thus CLSR uses the very changes that make the traditional governance model obsolete: the intelligence, creativity and consciousness of the Powerless Many and advances in technology and the internet.

4 Dimensions

There are 4 dimensions to CLSR:

1. The Vision

What do we desire to achieve? Where do we want to end up?

Asking citizens what the goals of the country should be is a novel concept. It forces them to think on a scale that they have never done before. It is way beyond yes-no questions such as "Should we leave the EU?", which as we saw

Peace, Opportunity and Wellbeing for all. POW4all.

2. Then there are the big picture elements: people, systems and implementation.

3. The elements in more detail: 

• People: new people with new consciousness. Current leaders are not going to change the status quo top-down models - there is no incentive. CLSR requires new people with a higher level of consciousness to lead from the bottom up. This obviously requires people skills: purpose and clarity; passion and compassion; and co-creation and co-operation.
• Systems: The current way is the people at the top sit behind closed doors and develop systems to meet their agenda. Transparent reinvention of systems from the bottom up by high consciousness people will inevitably lead to significantly superior alternatives, that aligns with POW4all and make the status quo obsolete. Obviously, the systems component in CLSR requires technical, systems and legal expertise addition to people skills
• Implementation of the newly reinvented governancce systems on a local and global level requires a different set of skills: political and leadership skills. The persuasion of people to give up the status quo in favour of even a vastly superior alternative is probably the most difficult component.

A look at the GENR Rising version of CLSR

One more thing

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