copyright 1995 Roan Carratu
(From the old Forerunner Website at http://reocities.com/rainforest/andes/3262/index.htm).
A Geodesic Democracy is a structure designed to connect people in a geodesic pattern of small meetings which retains the ability of every individual to make his or her own choices as to what they will or will not support. The geodesic organizational structure removes all positions of delegated power and prevents the corruption caused by the concentration of people's power in the hands of those with the gift of conning others.
It is unlike all previous organizational structures because it is not heirarchical and cannot be made heirarchical. It by-passes the very factors that causes the failure of previous organizational structures, rather than try to force people into making decisions and behaving in reasonable ways in a structure that rewards those who make decisions and behave badly to get others to give up their individual power.
At first glance, it seems complex, but compared to all previous systems, it is quite simple, ...just new and therefore hard to initally grasp.
The geometry, found in all aspects of Nature but especially seen on the molecular level, gives a geonet an incorruptablity not found in any previous structure. For an individual, it means each person is part of two small groups which meets regularily, literially every night of the week, (not weekends), for one hour each group. This is hard to imagine, but the fact is that the planet's ecology and errant human behavior requires more than 15 minutes every four years to govern, so governing the human impact on the planet will take more time than anyone thought.
It will also take a level of self-education not previously considered, where each person will need to learn almost everything to a degree never thought of before. This self-education is intensively integrated into the process of making decisions, and is a group effort. The goal is to make decisions that solve problems rather than create expedient results that just causes more problems, as was the case in all past systems of government. Past systems concentrated decision making in the hands of just one person or a small group, often assisted by 'experts' of approved pundits who thought in rigid ways as to what was possible. This simply resulted in speedy decision making that did not accomplish the goals desired.
The Geodesic Democracy concept (called Geonet in the rest of this document) will seem slower than past systems, but the result of past systems stands as a good example of trying to make speedy decisions on complex problems on all scales of human government behavior. The Geonet is designed to make comprehensive decisions that really work, rather than expedient decisions by a tiny few who may not know or have experienced enough to make those decisions in a comprehensive, workable, manner.
