We need collective intelligence, a coherent integration of our diversity that is greater than any or all of us could generate separately, just as an orchestra is greater than the sum of its instruments. We need a new kind of collectivity that does not repress individuality, diversity and creativity but that, instead, allows us to arrive at creative consensus without compromise. We need a shared power that calls forth the best in all of us and cherishes our diversity for the riches it contains.
–Tom Atlee, The Tao of Democracy
[via Democracy for California]
i think that collective intelligence might be an oxymoron, coherent diversity? i don’t see “US”
as Orchestra full of instruments, I think a tangled freeway full of honking ,impatient, selfish motorists, a much better comparison.