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HUMAN SCALE GOVERNANCE

People & Subsidiarity

Having completed our scaling and established the feasibility of a cascade principle for our gatherings and deliberatings based on the family, the clan, the tribe, the nation and the planetary bioregion we must promptly pay our respects to the principle of subsidiarity.

This principle means that the planetary bioregional assembly will be obliged to keep out of matters that can be dealt with by the national assemblies. And that they in turn will be expected to keep their itchy fingers in their pockets and mind their own business regarding matters that can be sorted out by the higher level...higher equals closer to the people...of the tribal assemblies.

And as for family business like pensions and charity, work and play, clans ought not to be meddling in such matters but should be using their clan assemblies to make sure that the tribal assemblies keep out of their patch.

That is the principle, in principle.

But never underestimate the difficulty inherent in the task of applying the general principle to a particular time and place, which is why you need to do it through people and not through policies and procedures as the bureaucrats would do.

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