Kansas Nerd Uses Net To Shake Up Political Fundraising

ghostlibrary sends a note about Sean Tevis, an information architect in Kansas, who is running for state representative with the help of an xkcd lookalike cartoon and grassroots Net-based fundraising. Tevis had garnered more than 6,000 contributions, most of them small, from around the country, far out-fundraising his opponent. Major news outlets have picked up the story as a harbinger of 21st-century Net-based political campaigning. Reader ghostlibrary adds, "As a bonus, Tevis cites xkcd intentionally (rather than just ripping it off without crediting it) and, well, it's actually funny."

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xkcd

[MagdJTK]

I had no idea that Randall Munroe invented stick figures!

Individual Sovereignty The Free Radical Essential

[FromTheAir]

Individual Sovereignty Individual Freedom the Free Radical

In a system of collective control the collective wisdom is that it is the free radical, the non-conformist, the revolutionary, the eccentric, the rule breaker, the free agent that is essential to the survival of mankind.

In communism and socialism conformity is forced, and this kills invention and ingenuity.

Conformity stifles evolution and the ability to adapt. In a natural system people do not conform because of force or fear, they do so willingly because they benefit from it.

This is why individual freedom is the number one priority in a system of collective control or participatory self government.

Anarchy with autonomous control and anonymous certification and validation?

Threat to the status Quo

[FromTheAir]

I wonder how much the status quo pays their agents to sit at /. modding down awareness creating posts that threaten the status quo.

The status quo that resists the changes that will eliminate their disproportionate advantage.

They depend on ignorance so awareness and intelligence is their arch enemy.