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Something that you might have thought you
would never hear me say... As even I’m saying it, it feels like
someone else put it in my mouth... And that is...
... We need MORE government, not less, as complexity
accelerates...unless the 1% adopts a FLOS Lens.
However, the government we have now formed is the wrong
government... Because they are BS and don't understand ideas
that would show the real diversity of the people, and how
individual differences need to be scaffolded in order to
promote adequate levels of human dignity in an exponentially
complexifying set of conditions.
Most likely, we will never be able to have the government we
need until we revisit the fundamental reasons for, and reasons
why government is needed. Early on, when
the world was far less complex, getting out of people's way
and allowing human endeavor to emerge produced more than
adequate conditions for the tide to raise all boats.
Yet, in times of accelerating complexity, where only a few
will be fully conscious of the major issues up and down the
stratified democracy, a republic is probably a better idea.
This is why you see so many banana republics doing as
good in many ways as the other more complex forms of
participative government. In many cases,
they have fractured the complexity and manage it incompletely,
but well enough to scaffold, in some ways, people where they
are, instead of where we are, which requires much more
capability.
There is one, or several relatively capable people in these
developing countries (for whatever drawbacks that capability
brings with them)... Who is a supreme leader. Even
in Iran, there is one person making decisions, even though
there are many layers of decision-creating authority.
The bottom-line on what could be a major work is to identify
that in a complex world, fewer and fewer people can put
together the delays among cause and effect, and string the
variables together well enough to see how small actions create
disequilibrium, and a practical loss of dignity.
In allowing an elite, which basically has earned their rights
vs. being endowed with them in a society where what works is
who has the best game... An elite that doesn't understand truly
that what put them there, isn't what makes up a great society,
we end up with a fractured benevolence that is not correlated
to needs under accelerating complexity in a post-modern world.
In other words, private individuals are not going to realize
that the vast amount of wealth they have attained is due more
to luck, an invisible infrastructure, and timing than anything
else. They will continue to pretend that it
was their doing, projecting that onto the rest --> thinking
that with enough _____________, they can do it too.
This absolves the fortunate from getting to know their
fortuitous circumstances and creates an air of I did, you
can, which under load is just not the case.
We ascribe too much success to our volition and not
enough to our fortunes; thus creating and scaffolding the
ideas that government is the purview of the elite to direct in
a manner that is consistent with their needs... And that by
their acts, an invisible hand will somehow reach out and
scaffold the many.
OBVIOUSLY, this is not working.
While violence may be down, humiliation is up.
While we may have shifted our notions about how we
treat each other, we have now crossed into dangerous territory
on many fronts, where it is becoming less probable that more,
not less, will benefit in terms of the dignity of civilized
living in this new calendar age.
I don't believe this makes me a socialist, or a communist,
because I don't believe that by turning race horses into plow
horses we gain anything. However, I do believe
there is a ground, and it will require the figure, or ego in
that ground to reverse itself and stop taking so much credit
for success, and be a little more humble about what each
person needs to be, do, have and become to be a
functional part of civilized society.
For truly, a great society, maybe one that is not great, but
humble.
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