Jordan Peterson announced the establishment of the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC), aimed at addressing key global issues through decentralized governance and subsidiarity. The initiative encourages community involvement and responsibility at local levels, drawing parallels to biblical governance structures. The inaugural conference is scheduled for October 31 to November 2, 2023, in London.
Welcome
This article provides an introductory overview of ARC, the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship. Jordan Peterson is developing this project in coordination with many global leaders and part of the vision is to help people cooperate with a form of fractal governance. There are many exciting synergies between Eden and ARC and it seems that the Eden community may be in the perfect place to help ARC. Please note that this article is an early work in progress and will be updated soon. Enjoy!
Table of Contents
- Welcome
- First Announcement
- Podcast and Timestamps
- Video Clip
- Transcript
- Quotes
- Introducing ARC
- Launch Announcement Thread
- Launch Announcement Post
- ARC Website
- About ARC
- Jordan Peterson
- Invitation
- Vision
- More Resources
- Subsidiarity
- Committee
- Questions
- Extras
- Events
- Interactions with Eden
- Related Posts
First Announcement
Podcast and Timestamps
Jordan first introduced this idea of Arc on Joe Rogan’s podcast in January 2023. He starts introducing the idea and speaking about the spirit of voluntary play to create ordered freedom at 1:32:51. He speaks about electing elders and councils of elders from groups of ten at 1:39:20. He describes fractal democracy with example from the bible and many thrilling insights. He speaks about an upcoming video series, conference, and much more. The whole episode is fascinating and amazing as well!
Video Clip
Jordan published the following clip on his channel. It includes most of the details related to the announcement, though it does leave out some very interesting pretext about the spirit of voluntary play.
“Recently, on the Joe Rogan Experience, I announced the establishment of a new international movement, open to the public, devoted to developing an invitational vision of the future, trying to collectively formulate the answer to six key questions. We invite all those who might be interested to contribute to the conversation.”
Transcript
Transcript of Jordan Peterson’s Invitation to the Future
Quotes
During the first announcement with Joe Rogan, Jordan Peterson shared many thoughts related to Eden. Here are a few quotes that are similar to Eden.
“The idea is you have to produce a hierarchy of responsibility, distributed responsibility as an antithesis to tyranny and to the desert. And that's the model for good governance.”
“Part of the model is based on this principle of subsidiarity and the idea that we want to encourage everyone to take as much responsibility as possible at the most local level possible”
“You take the people, you divide them into groups of ten and you have each of the ten elect an elder. And then you take the groups of elders and you have them elect a meta elder. And you do that all the way up to 10,000. And then you have the judgments that are necessary rendered at the lowest level of the hierarchy possible… And that's called subsidiarity.”
“There is a model of proper governance in there. This idea of a hierarchical structure of responsibility. It's the proper computational structure. It's not top down tyranny with fractionated individuals and it's not utter chaos. It's ordered freedom…. and it's the ordered freedom that comes along with being oriented towards the highest possible good.”
More quotes from Arc Introduction on Joe Rogan
Bible Passage Referencing Fractal Democracy and AnalysisIntroducing ARC
Launch Announcement Thread
Launch Announcement Post
ARC Website
About ARC
Jordan Peterson
Invitation
Dr. Jordan B. Peterson walks us through the goals for the newly formed Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC). The ARC hopes to find answers to the major issues facing our world, and they are now extending a hand to you to join!
Vision
You can read Jordan’s vision for ARC here.
More Resources
We started curating some additional resources about ARC below:
Subsidiarity
Subsidiarity is a principle of social organization that holds that social and political issues should be dealt with at the most immediate or local level that is consistent with their resolution. The Oxford English Dictionary defines subsidiarity as "the principle that a central authority should have a subsidiary function, performing only those tasks which cannot be performed at a more local level"
Subsidiarity is a foundational principle of ARC. You can hear Jordan speak about it in the videos above, read a quote below, and learn more about subsidiarity in this article.
“Part of the model that we're trying to put forward in this group that I'm describing is based on this principle of subsidiarity and the idea that we want to encourage everyone to take as much responsibility as possible at the most local level possible, right? So take responsibility for yourself until you're good enough at that. So you can take responsibility maybe for a wife, and then if you're good enough at that, maybe you can extend that to some kids. And then maybe you can serve your local community and then maybe you can serve your state. And maybe if you really get good at it, you could serve your nation, right? But you're taking the responsibility. And here's the basic rule. All the responsibility you abdicate will be taken up by tyrants. That's the cardinal rule of social organization. And so we're trying to build out this story that's based on the deepest elements of Western tradition.” - Jordan Peterson
Committee
Questions
Extras
Events
ARC’s inaugural conference will take place in London, England on Oct 31, Nov 1 and Nov 2, 2023.
Interactions with Eden
Jordan Peterson and Eden community members have interacted several times. You can see some of the interactions here:
You can see more interaction between Jordan Peterson and Eden community members here.
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