The biggest problem that humanity faces today is simple: All of the important systems we use to run society have become corrupted by powerful colluding people and institutions. There is no way to fix this corruption by using our existing systems - such as government or voting. We cannot use corrupt systems to fix corrupt systems, so the only solution is to build something new.
Humanity needs a new Operating System - one that is 100% designed and controlled by the people directly, outside of government and institutions - running parallel to current systems in order to hold them accountable. Our new system should be built so it cannot be easily corrupted, and it should constantly adapt to get results for the people. Using decentralization, transparency, and collective swarm intelligence, we can organize into powerful new structures that actually hold anyone who corrupts our systems accountable.
The best part is, we don't need anyone's permission to do this.
Yuval Noah Harari is widely known as a close advisor to Klaus Schwab, the founder of the World Economic Forum. It's obvious that he is deeply embedded within the globalist power structures that currently influence much of society. However, just because many of the people he has worked with seem to be adversaries of open civilization, that doesn't mean Harari himself is without insight. He has, at times, offered profound observations about the state of humanity.
On Lex Fridman’s podcast several years ago, Harari made a powerful statement: "humanity’s biggest problem is that they no longer have anywhere to go to make real change."
That's profoundly true.
Try to refute it. Can you name a vital system for humanity that you currently trust? One that can make real change?
Many of the traditional places where the public once had a voice - Congress, academia, media, and government - have become infected, captured, or corrupted, littered with blackmail, bribery, or coercion. These institutions no longer function as responsive mechanisms for meaningful change. We the people used to have influence within these systems, but that influence is mostly gone now.
If Harari’s observation is correct, then the solution becomes obvious: we need a new place — a space designed from the ground up to resist corruption and produce real, measurable results for human beings.
The problem starts with what kind of system we use. Nearly all of the systems we have today are top-down, centralized ones. Even systems that appear somewhat decentralized - such as the American government - have mostly become re-centralized and easy to corrupt.
An easy way to understand this is to imagine going into the desert with a single 55-gallon drum of water. If something happens to that drum - a leak, or poison - all of your water is lost. But if you had thousands of small containers, spread out everywhere, it would be far harder to corrupt them all.
Humans are fallible, and bad actors will always try to corrupt our systems. The answer is not to hope for better people, but to design better systems - ones that are harder to corrupt.
In the book The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations, Ori Brafman and Rod Beckstrom explain that spider organizations are centralized and controlled from a single head, while starfish organizations are decentralized and distribute power across many nodes. If you cut off the head of a spider, you kill the whole thing. But a starfish has no head: if you cut off its arm it grows back, and if you cut it in half, it becomes two new starfish. Starfish systems are resilient and adaptable - attacks often make them stronger.
This is the story of centralized versus decentralized systems. Any system that has one leader at the top will eventually become corrupted. If you corrupt the head - the president, CEO, owner, boss - you corrupt the whole system.
For most of history, power was concentrated in the hands of a few kings or queens. Then, a few hundred years ago, with America leading the way, that shifted into more decentralized democratic systems, spreading power across the people. As a result, quality of life improved immensely.
For a while, America was one of the most decentralized governance systems on Earth, and with that came enormous opportunity. People lined up from all over the world to move to America - not just for land or people, but for the American Dream: a system that nurtured creativity, individualism, knowledge creation, and freedom to choose one’s own path.
America’s system also had a critical feature: the ability to error-correct. America wasn’t born perfect - no country is - but over time it corrected its mistakes: slavery, the oppression of women, child labor, toxic waste, even cigarette advertising.
But in the last 50 - and especially the last 20 - years, power has begun consolidating again. With that centralization has come more corruption. We are losing our ability to error-correct. We need to re-decentralize America to protect it. With the internet and other tools, we have what we need to make America - and all countries - more resistant to corruption.
If you wanted to corrupt a system, all you would need to do is corrupt the top. But if we had groups of leaders, it would be far harder. We can start with local small circles - groups about the size of Dunbar’s number, roughly 150 people each. Then, using collective swarm intelligence, we can connect these local groups into powerful networks of leaders that run parallel to today’s corrupt systems and make decisions together.
Corrupting one leader isn't that hard. Corrupting hundreds is much harder. Corrupting millions of people connected in a high-trust network would be nearly impossible.
We can, and should, build entirely new operating systems for humanity - and then migrate to them. Once in place, these systems can help us fix the broken structures around us. As people, we need to harness, amplify, and keep the power spread out across society with well-crafted new systems and tools.
We already have what we need: collective intelligence platforms, blockchain, think tanks, and decentralized problem-solving systems. Let’s build the new operating system for humanity and hold the corrupt accountable.
Thanks for reading!
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