True knowledge is realizing how much we don’t know AND how much we think we know. We are vastly presumptuous. We see through our limited perspectives, and our mostly blind to the huge worlds we’re not able to see.

I’ve come to this understanding many times.  Today it reappeared after reading this article, where a millennial realizes he’s been presumptuous.

I think a lot of people think I’m presumptuous. In a sense I am- we all are.

In a sense I’m not. I don’t think I’m right, even about PeopleCount. I think we can make me right. I think we’d all be better off if we took responsibility for our broken political system and did something constructive, something fair, something non-partisan. I think we should take some positive steps to create peaceful ways to work together, communicate together, and orient Congress toward people, rather than to the parties, lobbyists and wealthy donors.

I don’t think parties are bad, per se. It’s great when groups organize around single issues, so they can refine their arguments and see their size. What’s bad is when the pro-gun people join the anti-abortion people. Say 60% of the people are both pro-gun and anti-abortion – it seems to make sense to join forces. But it skews both issues and stops representing 40% of their members well (actually if you do the math, 57%). The upshot for the country is that Congress has ground to a halt, which is what a minority of people want.

Please, join me in trying to reorient Congress toward representing people instead of representing parties. Join me in having your voice and opinions be counted instead of just competing to be loud. Join me in having meaningful societal communication about the issues instead of just having a few individual voices be heard. We’ll still have political parties and lots of individual voices competing. We’ll also have societal communication- us all voting on issues and hearing the results, and having those results sway Congress.

I’ve been focusing on marketing, blogging and networking, but it hasn’t worked. People with resources aren’t hearing me. I’ll keep working at it, but without resources, progress is slow. I need to start building software as well, and doing less of the rest…

I understand that people don’t have the time, or confidence in PeopleCount, to join us. I’m pretty amazed that only about a dozen people have contributed money. And fewer have asked their fellow members of other groups to support us. Please help. In a few minutes, you can make a difference.