We’ll keep developing that wiki page, but we wanted to get the thinking down *while* we were thinking about it. Our core point (and the value that we think people can take away from this) is that you don’t want to run off and join a party as a first step towards actual p2p politics. This is advice from us that is applicable right now today. Instead, you want to learn to work directly with other people, to be a “party of one” person, who cooperates and collaborates with others where and when needed. We can co-create the our rules for participation on demand while we are trying to solve the problems of health care, money, and education. We don’t need to outsource that to representative government in every case. For instance, maybe with healthcare, we simply create donation networks to help each other fund costs? Or, maybe we create co-operatives of doctors and patients? Maybe we create co-operative-based drug companies that manufacture and distribute drugs in a whole new way, with a core mission to provide the medication at an ethical cost, and market and suggest use ethically, perhaps even opting first to base off of natural ingredients, and open sourcing the chemical compounds? In all cases, people need to know what government works and looks like if they try to do this stuff, so our wiki page is a start at saying YOU ARE THE GOVERNMENT

David Weinberger has a particularly useful reaction to the Gladwell piece (and Gladwell’s doubling down on his position despite events in Egypt), which can be found here. Weinberger helpfully includes links to the Gladwell articles.