everything keeps getting worse
We march down the street by the thousands, post selfies with our signs, fight with people that piss us off - then go home like we accomplished something. This is not going to change anything. No matter how many people flood the streets, our elected officials continue to make their decisions in empty rooms.
OUR CITY FEELS OUT OF CONTROL BECAUSE WE ARE NOT IN CONTROL OF ANYTHING.
We have no measurable way to guide our government outside of the election cycle. Every step of the policy making process is structured so that we are kept out of it. We let 9 people decide what is best for 755,000 with no way to hold them accountable after election.
EVERY PROBLEM IN OUR CITY WAS DRAFTED WITHIN OUR POLICY MAKING PROCESS.
a healthy city is our responsibility
We need to understand the limits of the process we have inherited - public policy is drafted and voted on by people who are most often not affected by it while the people who are, cannot contribute to the conversation which creates it. This is how we end up with bad policy:
WE ELECT PEOPLE WITHOUT EXPERIENCE TO DECIDE FOR THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE EXPERIENCE.
Our social conditioning demands that to be heard, someone else must speak for us. This is no longer the case, but we still think it’s “normal” to let 9 people decide how we live our lives, so nobody questions it. Let me break it down for you:
WE ARE NOT PART OF THE POLICY MAKING PROCESS SIMPLY BECAUSE WE DO NOT DEMAND TO BE.
most of the work is already done.
We just have to get it all organized. In the last 20 years, the only thing that has outstripped inflation is our rate of technological development. People everywhere are already using online platforms and digital tools to educate and organize themselves around solutions to our modern problems. It’s time to bring that energy to city hall.
OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS NEED ALL THE HELP THEY CAN GET.
AI is set restructure our economy within the next 3 years and - as things fall apart, we have to put them back together. Our evolution demands that we reimagine what it means to be human in modern society.
Do you really want this conversation to happen while you’re at work?
