Getting Off the Grid

Centralization versus decentralization has been one of the most debated issues in the history of mankind.  Whether the hierarchy is tall or flat is the insideous question for organizers.  Just how many people should report to others as an organization grows is an intriguing question.  The most important issue seems to be coordination.  How do you keep all energies pointed in the same direction as new energy is added.  One of the best ways seems to be with openness.  Openness appears to form a kind of cement, a cohesiveness based on trust that bonds participants to each other, a nation.  Without this magic, coordination efforts are uncoordinated and sterile.

In modern society, where there seems to be more pressure to get more integrated into the grid, and conform more to larger forces;  there has to be an oppodsite force worth noting.  Maybe there is a need for the opposite.  Maybe there is a need to decentralize the forces that we each produce.  maybe there is a need for each of us to retreat from the conformity of the grid, and declare our independence and soviergnity.  Maybe each of us need to declare that we intend to give-back more than we take;  and to endeavor to do so.

An old friend of mine. Mike Omasta, who runs a company called "Bill Busters" is into the idea of getting off the grid.  the ability to free yourself from the grid seems so appealing, liberating and pioneering.