Activism

The reasons for my concerns

Propaganda and political persecution permeated my life from my youth throughout adulthood in Hungary. I began experiencing peace, the first time since I was born, in Canada. It took less than two years when my family and I moved into our own home, and I did not have to worry about how to pay the mortgage because I had a secure job. The tranquility of my mind and a sense of freedom inspired me to study western philosophy, political science and economy in my spare time. Reference works from ancient Greek philosophers to John Locke, Emanuel Kant, and Bertrand Russell, opened up a new world of knowledge I had no access before in my mother tongue. One of my reading hobby have been to write down my own thoughts about parts I developed my own views of.

After my retirement I began to collect these notes into something I thought was a set of new ideas worth publishing. The first volume was a one-thousand-page printed philosophical manuscript, MS, you can find parts of this by clicking either of the blue links in the banner page(s). The most important parts of the MS, titled Common Sense Ideas, were the chapters ON LIFE, and ON SOCIETY, a theories about a constitutional society where econo-political morality is a dominant factor. I have been concerned about the rapid decline of the global society and a serious threat to civilization. It took ten years after retirement I realized that I cannot find a publisher and began self-publishing various peaces of my works.

I thought that positive action from the grassroots levels of society could result in significant improvements. I established Participatory Direct Democracy Association, in Winnipeg Canada, my home town. It is extremely difficult to organize peaceful social activism for the betterment of society, especially in affluent Canada, where citizens enjoy good social services. We have, reasonable minimum wage control, universal health care, unemployment insurance, Canadian Pension Plan, and in general, high level of social services. I thought people from poorer regions of the world have better opportunities to implement major social improvements in their lives. I discussed the formation of a worldwide activist group during the First International Congress on Direct, In the Czech Republic, in 1998. Worldwide Direct Democracy Movement, WDDM, was formally established four-years later in Greece. I painfully realized that my active contribution was fruitless, neither of these groups made any significant improvement. It could have been due to my inability to fulfill my role as one of the organizers implementing real progress. Worldwide Direct Democracy Movement become dysfunctional.

After WDDM became inactive I contacted its most dedicated members, in 2003-4, to make proposals for the renewal of activities. Subsequently a new website was created; http://www.world-wide-democracy.net  by Dr. Miroslav (Mirek) Kolar, Webmaster and fellow activist, who became the new leader of the network. After new operations began, I retired from activism for health reason and my advanced age. Since then, I had been focusing on collecting a few relevant papers in this Web site and publish essays and references to books I wrote earlier. One of these papers is in the Journal of Public Deliberations, JPD, that you could read by clicking it in the left frame. The Journal's Editor-In-Chief is Dr. Theodor Becker's, of JPD can be contacted at

beckerl@mail.auburn.edu and you could see the journal at:

http://www.auburn.edu/academic/liberal_arts/poli_sci/journal_public_deliberation/

The articles are aimed improving highway safety and transportation, unfair voting practices, fictions about our frightening future, my book cover pages, empirical philosophy to discredit idealism, the notion of innate ideas and absolute truth, my technical and scientific interest, in which I wrote against waste money in experimental physics, critical essays and poems that also show some of my other ideas.  These topics are presented in separate categories that you could reach by clicking the links in the banner frame.

DEMOCRATIC LINKS:

The first Participatory Direct Democracy Association, PDDA,

http://www.democracy.mkolar.org/

Movement for Direct Democracy, Jiri Polak: http://home3.swipnet.se/~w-38823/

WDDM Newsletter: http://www.planet-thanet.fsnet.co.uk/groups/wdd/

Direct Democracy Forum http://ao.com.au/ddf/

Dr. Antonio Rossin: Dialectic Education (Flexible Learning; Antonio Rossin, Italy)

Dr. Antonio Rossin: http://www.flexible-learning.org/eng/main_english.htm