There are so many flaws in democracy that the idea itself is flawed, as is the idea of a technocracy. The only real solution is a constitutional republic, one that defines government’s purpose as protecting life, liberty, and property, as many of the founders of America envisioned.
My observation is those who only see top-down are the first to take advantage of new technology. The Gutenberg press was first monopolized by religious rulers. In 1501, Pope Alexander VI promised excommunication for anyone who printed manuscripts without the church’s approval. It took a while before entrepreneurs went beyond religious control. Nicolaus Copernicus published “On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres,” in 1543, a direct threat to religious control which held the earth centric model. Galileo's extensive studies supported Copernicus. However with church authorities declaring Copernicus' work heresy in 1615, he spent the last years of his life under house-arrest till his death in 1642. The invention of the Internet has the same pattern of establishment top-down control. But, slowly emerging has been the Internet's true democratic-value in distributing truth. Substack authors have been the tip-of-the-spear but others are getting thru like Mike Rowe's interview of Matt Malone on Youtube. There has been a human force for truth that has never been denied which I observe is destroying the top-down monopolies of information today. Jordan Peterson's Peterson Academy was just released after the effort was announced several years ago to bring higher education to all at but for a fraction of the cost of gatekeepers at self-involved institutions no longer prestigious.
"Political Puppetry: The notion that politicians might already be "useful idiots" in a technocratic system where decisions are made by unelected experts or corporate entities challenges the very core of representative democracy. If true, then elections become mere formalities, not expressions of public will but validations of pre-selected choices by technocratic elites."
Yes, we can find a technology that enables self-rule by the people and that prohibits influence by outside parties, including global elites and their companies. The blueprint, even technical details, and an implementation plan are described in the book End Politics Now. The major parts of this solution have been used successfully around the world. It contains a new type of democratic process where interested citizens collaborate to solve one National issue at a time at the lowest Federal department level possible. They do so through citizen governance websites, one for each federal department. Instead of simple, biased, yes and no voting, they are guided through the solutioning process one step at a time built into the website. The process leads them from recognizing their bias to education on the issue to brainstorming solution factors to determining the best combination of factors to create a collaborative solution. This process maximizes the collective intelligence of the people, which has been shown to achieve better results than decisions by experts, presidents, and legislatures for complex issues. The technology design is already here. We just need to support it. Links to Amazon are in EndPoliticsNow.com.
By the way, other substack authors have suggested that I write the book here in sequential articles. The problem is that you can present a complex concept in small linear chunks in a book allowing people to digest one piece at a time and follow the logic. But when you do it in a series of articles, no one goes back to the beginning to understand the full concept and all the details. That's why I promote the book rather than writing it or putting pieces of it on substatic.
What are you talking about is not in the future, but has been present for a very long time already. Probably always in same shape and form. In any case the vast majority of history people had lived under different kind of autocratic rulers_ regimes b
There are so many flaws in democracy that the idea itself is flawed, as is the idea of a technocracy. The only real solution is a constitutional republic, one that defines government’s purpose as protecting life, liberty, and property, as many of the founders of America envisioned.
As with everything I say here: criticizing one thing doesn’t imply support for the opposite.
Good clarification of your thought.
My observation is those who only see top-down are the first to take advantage of new technology. The Gutenberg press was first monopolized by religious rulers. In 1501, Pope Alexander VI promised excommunication for anyone who printed manuscripts without the church’s approval. It took a while before entrepreneurs went beyond religious control. Nicolaus Copernicus published “On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres,” in 1543, a direct threat to religious control which held the earth centric model. Galileo's extensive studies supported Copernicus. However with church authorities declaring Copernicus' work heresy in 1615, he spent the last years of his life under house-arrest till his death in 1642. The invention of the Internet has the same pattern of establishment top-down control. But, slowly emerging has been the Internet's true democratic-value in distributing truth. Substack authors have been the tip-of-the-spear but others are getting thru like Mike Rowe's interview of Matt Malone on Youtube. There has been a human force for truth that has never been denied which I observe is destroying the top-down monopolies of information today. Jordan Peterson's Peterson Academy was just released after the effort was announced several years ago to bring higher education to all at but for a fraction of the cost of gatekeepers at self-involved institutions no longer prestigious.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1EgqNQg8vA&t=1s
We're already there
"Political Puppetry: The notion that politicians might already be "useful idiots" in a technocratic system where decisions are made by unelected experts or corporate entities challenges the very core of representative democracy. If true, then elections become mere formalities, not expressions of public will but validations of pre-selected choices by technocratic elites."
I think we're already there.
Yes, we can find a technology that enables self-rule by the people and that prohibits influence by outside parties, including global elites and their companies. The blueprint, even technical details, and an implementation plan are described in the book End Politics Now. The major parts of this solution have been used successfully around the world. It contains a new type of democratic process where interested citizens collaborate to solve one National issue at a time at the lowest Federal department level possible. They do so through citizen governance websites, one for each federal department. Instead of simple, biased, yes and no voting, they are guided through the solutioning process one step at a time built into the website. The process leads them from recognizing their bias to education on the issue to brainstorming solution factors to determining the best combination of factors to create a collaborative solution. This process maximizes the collective intelligence of the people, which has been shown to achieve better results than decisions by experts, presidents, and legislatures for complex issues. The technology design is already here. We just need to support it. Links to Amazon are in EndPoliticsNow.com.
By the way, other substack authors have suggested that I write the book here in sequential articles. The problem is that you can present a complex concept in small linear chunks in a book allowing people to digest one piece at a time and follow the logic. But when you do it in a series of articles, no one goes back to the beginning to understand the full concept and all the details. That's why I promote the book rather than writing it or putting pieces of it on substatic.
What are you talking about is not in the future, but has been present for a very long time already. Probably always in same shape and form. In any case the vast majority of history people had lived under different kind of autocratic rulers_ regimes b
I think you'll like my history of technocracy and scientific management, which is at the root of what you describe.
https://culturalcourage.substack.com/p/rejecting-the-watchmakers