quartz/content/Political System Upgrade.md

I'm here because I believe our political systems are fundamentally and systemically flawed.

I would say our legacy political systems have atrophied, but they were never very good at upgrading themselves to begin with - and that's our biggest problem right there.

A riding used to be how far your representative could ride in a day. These systems were developed back when the states was x million people, communication by mail took weeks, and bloodletting was an accepted medical practice.

This system has incredible technical debt. The pencil and paper. The attachments of our current political system hold us back from innovating how we need to. Our social signals

Most people are getting ignored no matter who gets in office, petitions are bullshit, shouting into the void. If only we could SIGNAL our preferences somewhere.

Problem of peak hierarchy. I watch Justin Trudeau get on screen every day and try to solve all the problems of Canada. He don't know shit. He gets told things by a couple experts. Why don't we include more experts? How about stakeholders too? Isn't that how we should be making decisions as a collective anyway?

Now before you say "everyone voting on everything would be impossible", let me assure you that is not the plan. But what we can do is organize effectively at the community level and empower those communities to solve more of their own problems. Those communities can collaborate at higher levels, with continuous signal processing routing through and between communities.

Now, attachment to these patterns leads to gerrymandering, corporate lobbying, bias for financial system built into our economics, political gaming (eg social media/truth manipulation, shock doctrine, recency effect in campaigning) and popularity contests and all other sorts of systemic manipulations able to be made by powered interests

“The real problem of humanity is the following: we have Paleolithic emotions; medieval institutions; and god-like technology.” — E.O. Wilson

Money is the most important coordination mechanism for society and our existing fiat system is driving our species off a cliff. Instead of arguing red vs blue, it’s time we address the root cause of our societal malaise. It’s time to unfuck the money.

“Give me control of a nation’s money and I care not who makes the laws.” — Mayer Amschel Rothschild