Great work here. A lot of thought written down to digest. Warfare can be included in this essay at some point. I have seen how Russia is a multi-ethnic country that recruits armies by territory and ethnicity. The Chechens are a warrior tribe that fights as a unit. Chechens might even have their own airforce. A return to youth sports that train for war and decentralized militias would be recommended for any soveign civilization. Frank Herbert mulled over rules for warfare in a deep future, worth reviewing. I would recommend smallscale, regular warfare that: 1) Is confined to chosen battlefields to protect civilians and eliminates this growing trend of terrorism and surveillance. There is no humanity and no dignity in a technocrat control grid.
2) Mandates representatives to vote with their spilt blood. When words fail, politicians are locked into a battle to their death, not ours.
This all assumes the American Empire will collapse and a new , and better, form will take its place.
Another possibility is the American Empire collapses and America as we know it disintegrates into pieces. In that chaos a range of different countries may emerge on the north American continent. Some may evolve the excellent bottom up democracy you point to and some may not.
From the point of view of those of us outside the American empire, we may all breath easier with less global empire building as a starting point to a more human world.
“Rationalistic planning and protocol design are two basic ways to think about such a transformation.”
I hadn’t thought of it quite like this before. It seems a lot like the idea of abstracting away the details in software design, but the distinctions between concepts and details gets a little fuzzy for me. Also seems related to the idea of framing a general constitution. I picked up some ideas that might be related from Legalman on The Quash. He mentioned having automatic sunset provisions, but also an idea that implementing a new law would require 80% approval and that it could be repealed with only 40%.
Great work here. A lot of thought written down to digest. Warfare can be included in this essay at some point. I have seen how Russia is a multi-ethnic country that recruits armies by territory and ethnicity. The Chechens are a warrior tribe that fights as a unit. Chechens might even have their own airforce. A return to youth sports that train for war and decentralized militias would be recommended for any soveign civilization. Frank Herbert mulled over rules for warfare in a deep future, worth reviewing. I would recommend smallscale, regular warfare that: 1) Is confined to chosen battlefields to protect civilians and eliminates this growing trend of terrorism and surveillance. There is no humanity and no dignity in a technocrat control grid.
2) Mandates representatives to vote with their spilt blood. When words fail, politicians are locked into a battle to their death, not ours.
This all assumes the American Empire will collapse and a new , and better, form will take its place.
Another possibility is the American Empire collapses and America as we know it disintegrates into pieces. In that chaos a range of different countries may emerge on the north American continent. Some may evolve the excellent bottom up democracy you point to and some may not.
From the point of view of those of us outside the American empire, we may all breath easier with less global empire building as a starting point to a more human world.
Zionism will find a new host. Israel may well fall and Jews return to congeniently immigrate to an Ukraine devoid of Christians.
I really like the Sunset provision. Is that even a thing anymore?
“Rationalistic planning and protocol design are two basic ways to think about such a transformation.”
I hadn’t thought of it quite like this before. It seems a lot like the idea of abstracting away the details in software design, but the distinctions between concepts and details gets a little fuzzy for me. Also seems related to the idea of framing a general constitution. I picked up some ideas that might be related from Legalman on The Quash. He mentioned having automatic sunset provisions, but also an idea that implementing a new law would require 80% approval and that it could be repealed with only 40%.