There's A Bottom Up Tidal Wave Underway. Will You Surf It?

[Donnachaidh]

http://www.bottomupmind.com/populum/page.php?f=There-s-A-Bottom-Up-Tidal-by-Rob-Kall-110515-677.html

There's a bottom up revolution going on. Our world, culture, business, brains, ways we work, relate and see things are all transitioning from predominantly top down to more bottom up, from centralized to decentralized, from an information era to a connection era. This is not something you can ignore or avoid. It is a tidal wave that is changing everything. If you don't get it and ride the wave it will knock you over and leave you behind.

Top down is associated with centralization, control, hierarchy, domination, hard power, command and one to many and one-directionality.

Bottom up is associated with decentralization, sharing, interdependence, multiple means of communication, soft power, grassroots activism, cooperation, diversity and interconnectivity.

Before there was farming and civilization humans lived primarily bottom up lives in tribes. They shared in caring for each other and decision making. Some hunted, some gathered, some cooked and prepared food. There was cooperation.

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[cleanhippie]

1. This same idea is slowly starting to take hold in the business world as well.

I like it.

[On the Road]

2. Was Hinted at in "Megatrends" (1982)

“The Computer will smash the pyramid. We created the hierarchical, pyramidal managerial system because we needed it to keep track of people and things people did; with the computer to keep track, we can restructure our institutions horizontally.”

And this was before the internet and tools like eBay, Alibaba, Craigslist, Froogle, and similar online business models. Too soon to say it's becoming universal, but it has really challenged the major coporate model in a number of areas. Unfortunately some of the victims, such as newspapers, were not among the worst offenders.

[Zorra]

3. Already hit the lip and boostin' major air. nt

[bvar22]

4. Latin America has this down pat.

"The worst enemy of humanity is U.S. capitalism. That is what provokes uprisings like our own, a rebellion against a system, against a neoliberal model, which is the representation of a savage capitalism. If the entire world doesn't acknowledge this reality, that nation states are not providing even minimally for health, education and nourishment, then each day the most fundamental human rights are being violated."
----Bolivian Reform President Evo Morales

FDR said much the same thing in 1944 with his Economic Bill of Rights.
Bolivian President Evo Morales sounds more like FDR than anyone in the Democratic Party Leadership.


Latin America has given us a Blue Print for (near) Bloodless Revolution.
They voted the Bastards OUT!
Of course they has one advantage we don't have:
Transparent, Verifiable, Monitored Elections with independent Exit Polls.
I wish we had THAT here.

VIVA Democracy!

[socialist_n_TN]

5. I think we've agreed on this before bvar

Latin America has gone through the Disaster Capitalism stage and emerged on the other side. We could learn a lot from the Latin American countries.

[bvar22]

6. That is THE reason...

...we don't hear a WORD about these successful populist reforms from either our Media,
or from prominent politicians in either dominant political party.


"There are forces within the Democratic Party who want us to sound like kinder, gentler Republicans.
I want a party that will stand up for working Americans."
---Paul Wellstone


"By their works you will know them."

[leftstreet]

7. +1

Crickets from the M$M and the pols