First, consider how mindblowing this day is for a member of the DFA community.
In the morning you get an email about Wisconsin, from Howard, asking
for your support to put up a message on television in Wisconsin.
You decide as a individual to make a contribution.
And then about mid day–or perhaps later–you realise that you have
been part of an historic event–a “perfect swarm.” For most
people, this will be a surprising and gratifying discovery. You
realize that thousands of other individuals made a similar commitment
at the same time. It feels a bit uncanny.
What is going on? Swarm power, emergence, something larger than
ourselves. Here is a fun thing to do: Take a large crowd–perhaps
you are giving a speech–and ask them to clap together to an aligned
beat. But don’t give them a lead beat. Just ask the crowd
to find a beat, by paying attention to their neighbors, and syncing up
as they can. I’ve done this dozens of times, and the amazing
thing is how fast a group can come together when it wants to.
The Dean community is coming together. It is starting to experience a new level of emergence, of power.
The Dean community will make itself felt and heard at a new
level.
So here is a question for you: Is the DeanforAmerica community transforming itself into a community
that goes well-beyond its original mission to create multiple ways to
make itself heard and to be powerful–using the web as centerpiece and
platform?
I think perhaps so.
