I love this exploration, but there are two parts of governance that need to work well in order to be effective. Bureaucracy is one answer to the “how” norms and rules get distributed, monitored, and enforced. More important (and more interesting to me) is hte “what” rules are in scope, and the specifics of the rules that are enforced by the bureaucratic mechanisms.
Thanks. I think your insight is correct that governance requires answers to the “how” and “what” questions, and that the bureaucratic structure is one answer, but it leave the “how” unanswered. I don’t have a good technical answer, but I do have an interesting proposal by Hannes Alfven in the book “The End of Man?” that he published under the pseudonym of Olof Johnneson called Complete Freedom Democracy that I like. The short book is worth the read, but hard to find. The basic idea is a parliamentary system in which all humans, through something akin to a smart phone, to rank vote proposals. I’ll write up the details some time!
I love this exploration, but there are two parts of governance that need to work well in order to be effective. Bureaucracy is one answer to the “how” norms and rules get distributed, monitored, and enforced. More important (and more interesting to me) is hte “what” rules are in scope, and the specifics of the rules that are enforced by the bureaucratic mechanisms.
Thanks. I think your insight is correct that governance requires answers to the “how” and “what” questions, and that the bureaucratic structure is one answer, but it leave the “how” unanswered. I don’t have a good technical answer, but I do have an interesting proposal by Hannes Alfven in the book “The End of Man?” that he published under the pseudonym of Olof Johnneson called Complete Freedom Democracy that I like. The short book is worth the read, but hard to find. The basic idea is a parliamentary system in which all humans, through something akin to a smart phone, to rank vote proposals. I’ll write up the details some time!