I’m not opposed to abolishing Great Councils as they currently exist and returning them to being constitutional conventions I think when we changed GCs from being complete constitutional rewrites to this “amendment” BS, the people who never wanted a GC in the first place got what they wanted. By denying the ability of the community to engage in creative destruction, we’ve foreclosed imagination and ingenuity, stifling everything that doesn’t fit into the predefined box of what the Charter already is. It was always a way to stop the GC from being any kind of effective vehicle for change and transformation, and we’re seeing that fully in play.

I wrote the current article in a way that technically allows starting from scratch. But the whole message from the get-go has been we can’t and shouldn’t do that. And then people are surprised that few are inspired to branch out and come up with the new ideas. We should go back to language that promotes complete overhaul, true constitutional conventions.