Hello Fred-Rik

I've been digesting your words of the past few days.

I've put all the chips on the roulette wheel twice with business projects. Lost both times. Since then, I've been more hesitant with "charging forward."

I estimate I have $30,000 into the TDG. But spread over 26 years, it is not a big cash outlay.

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If the year was 1960, my family, friends, and acquaintances would have grounds to put me in a mental institution. Ten years or so years ago, I quit telling them of my TDG project. I got tired of seeing eyeballs turned inside out.

I recently watched a documentary on PBS on autism. My son has this condition. The family that broke the system in how society handled autistic children were tireless advocates--and deserving of great accolades. Many autistic children have benefited from the family's activism.

The husband/wife team came from some wealth. They had the opportunity to "park themselves in the state legislature" (and other things) until they got what they wanted, which took them about a decade.

I don't have this wealth behind me. I should be attending conferences of various activist movements, but I cannot afford this travel or time away from my son.

I don't have credibility with my own people. Just a flakey writer!

And there is another Catch 22. Building the TDG needs to start locally, then build up to the provincial and federal levels where TDG governance is really needed. From what I can see, municipal governments in Canada work reasonably well. There's no political parties to discolor the discussion that needs to happen to find the better decisions. So building a local TDG to eventually replace municipal governance has no immediate relevance to many. In other words, I doubt can convince anyone in my locality to help build our local TDG.

Anyways, I'm here mostly for fun these days. My recent TDG experiment has played itself out --and the results are not there. If nothing else, I have moved the TDG into a position where it can get lucky.

When I find some work in the new year, my Medium time and TDG promotion will be put into a lower gear.

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I also agree that a PR system is more likely to be implemented in Canada and USA than the TDG. In Canada, there is a strong advocacy for PR already happening. It hasn't accomplished much in the last 30 years, but these people are still there. And sometimes, these political movements can cascade rather qulckly.

I shall continue to devote my limited political energy to the TDG---just because no else is talking about this way.