hill from Cornell's home town of Sacramento) based on an innovative
program of Corporate Democracy and Economic Confederation (hold on, read
the whole thing). I will be working on securing a $500 million JobBond
to put us back to work in a company where we elect our CEO and Board of
Directors. It is about progressive big business. It is about putting
the Chief back in Chief Executive Officer.
Sony Inc., founder Akio Morida said that "nations are a dying industry,
corporations are the structures of the future" and indeed we now live in
the Age of the Corporate State, quickly leaving behind the Age of the
Nation State. But the good news is that we love corporations, it is
kings we can do without. We will be managing capital (buildings, money,
equipment) as a commons with benefits going to those who provision the
commons, not those born of the golden womb.
This is all based on the brilliant social engineering of the Greatest
American Who Ever Lived, the Great Peacemaker of the People of the
Longhouse who gave the world the gift of confederation in 1142 AD, over
300 years before Columbus was born. In 1744 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania,
Canasatego, suggested that the unorganized English Colonies might want
to form some sort of Union like the League of Peace and Power, a
confederation which had at that point brought peace, power, and
prosperity to the Haudenosaunee for 600 years. Ben Franklin was there
on his first diplomatic mission, and the first thing he ever printed was
an account of that treaty conference and the suggestion of Canasatego.
He then made confederation the core of his Albany Plan in 1754. The
first time the term "United States of America" was in the Articles of
Confederation and the writings of the Federalists were based on their
arguments against confederation.
Almost 90 years later the Confederation of Southern States used the term
as a "fuck you" to the strong federal authority of the centralized
government, however the South was never a confederation for two main
reasons: one, the definition of a confederation is an alliance of
autonomous individuals and a society with slaves cannot therefore be a
confederation; and, second, they quickly became a military dictatorship
and never gave the states their dreamed of autonomy. So therefore, to
allow a bunch of slave owning white men to own the term confederation
today is the worst form of cultural imperialism.
Corporate Democracy, or Economic Confederation, is not an ESOP which is
usually a tax dodge to give employees equity but hold on to power, it is
not a cooperative which comes from the European socialist/communist
model that seek leaderless organizations run by consensus.
Confederation is a dynamic organizational model where the leaders are
servants to the people, there are checks and balances and separation of
powers (concepts invented by the Great Peacemaker) with the whole thing
run by Chiefs and Councils of Elders who get their power as a result of
years of service to the people, not because of who their daddy was.
The way European Americans finally broke the Original Americans was to
destroy the power of the Chiefs and to make them the same as every other
individual member of the tribe -- Sitting Bull had the same say as any
other Lakota regardless of ability. This decimation of the people was
accomplished finally by the Dawes Act of 1887 that no longer allowed
native people to manage land (capital) as a commons. Senator Dawes
pursued this strategy because the Railroad and Telegraph companies were
having a hard time cheating the Chiefs, so instead they divided native
land into 160 acre parcels that they could swindle individuals out of
one at a time.
I believe it is the return of the Chiefs (both male and female) and the
return of the Commons (but applied to modern business forms) that is the
key to us being able to defend ourselves against the predation of the
Wacicu (those that keep the fat for themselves).
Do you have any interest in speaking with me on your program?
--
Michael Rogers
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