Fixing corruption in our systems is the one thing all people should stand in solidarity on. We need a #TransparencyMovement. The world is primed for one.
Dec 6, 2022Liked by The Society of Problem Solvers
Love this! Are you following the Global Walkout? Different but related.. seems to have some momentum. Keep Cash Alive is one aspect of it. Personally I do not watch TV any more and choose my Banking relationships carefully. Lots more to do.. not patronizing corrupt businesses is a start.
It would also be useful to have a software solution that categorizes bills using a standard rating system e.g., Pork spending 0 - 100%, Single party interests, Total dollar amount involved, etc. These custom categories would be in addition to the standard governmental categories found at https://www.senate.gov/legislative/common/briefing/leg_laws_acts.htm.
The main idea here is a simple interface for me to understand convoluted legalese. Chat GPT might be able to do the conversion from the original bill to Plain Language and codify the various categories stated above.
Dec 7, 2022·edited Dec 7, 2022Liked by The Society of Problem Solvers
You believe the path to system corrections is to dive into the culture war? The PTB want the confrontation to happen in the culture war space because they already have it on lockdown.
One of the first thing I find interesting when discussing systems is the way that there's two behaviors that people present: either they understand why the system has constraints and they respect those, or they don't and they seek to undermine them. It doesn't really matter the system of governance or laws. Once people get into a position where the constraints are biting them, the default behavior is to resist or undermine those restrictions. If the law says you need a certain amount of evidence, at some point the people being constrained by lack of evidence will find a way to work around that restriction. In our government this is called like Parallel Construction or Plausible Deniability or whatever else.
So when we were hunter gatherers there were people violating the rules - stealing, killing, etc, because they didn't see how these rules would benefit them. In Feudalism people seemed to find every possible shortcut around morality and righteousness. Buying indulgences is pretty amazing. In Communism, despite the outward constraints about the party being for the workers and everyone being equal, in practice it works quite differently. And in Capitalism people try to break every law possible that won't result in serious consequences.
In all these systems, people sort of exist within them, but they didn't agree to the constraints in thatsystem, or buy into the reasons they are necessary. Even when they do like in religious systems, they still try to cheat as much as possible. Over time these systems get undermined and lose their purpose.
So I think that's a really good starting point. How do you get people to participate in something without trying to undermine it at every level? I think it involves a fundamental buy in as to why the 'rules' are important and we want a society that doesn't spend most of their time trying to undermine the system they live in. But that sounds very authoritarian. I imagine it to be much more of an opt-in cooperative type thing. We all agree to uphold these values. If a time comes that we cannot uphold these values, we will find a different way of life.
I would like to see a start with a society that is not at war with itself, and where the citizens don't feel that rules are imposed on them by some ruler or system they didn't choose. I'd like to see a society where the citizens agree to the moral, legal, and cultural rules they will be bound by, and that it's a liberating and healing experience. And where these chosen beliefs help the people live the life they would like to have.
We must have a cooperative spirit guiding us forward. The We in altruistic action. The Us in compassion. Understanding that our individual happiness factor is effected by the whole.
"systems that aren’t corrupted" is a description of a single state, what we need are systems that are incorruptible, otherwise we have the same result as other revolutions where the new systems are instantly as corrupt as the old systems. Animal farm described this in a great simplistic story.
Nice theory but I don’t see it happening on a grand scale. Too many ppl simply going about their lives, living day to day, struggling to survive and feeling powerless. And do you think these institutions would ever want to disclose their corruption? They’ll just make up some law for you to break and toss you in prison.
Love this! Are you following the Global Walkout? Different but related.. seems to have some momentum. Keep Cash Alive is one aspect of it. Personally I do not watch TV any more and choose my Banking relationships carefully. Lots more to do.. not patronizing corrupt businesses is a start.
To make an online bill transparent to me the average American, we need "plain language" (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plain_language) not leageleze.
It would also be useful to have a software solution that categorizes bills using a standard rating system e.g., Pork spending 0 - 100%, Single party interests, Total dollar amount involved, etc. These custom categories would be in addition to the standard governmental categories found at https://www.senate.gov/legislative/common/briefing/leg_laws_acts.htm.
The main idea here is a simple interface for me to understand convoluted legalese. Chat GPT might be able to do the conversion from the original bill to Plain Language and codify the various categories stated above.
Hopefully this post was in Plain Language ;)
Goes right along with my mantra...good intentions = unintended consequences
I followed your link on Caitlin Johnstone. Good post!
You believe the path to system corrections is to dive into the culture war? The PTB want the confrontation to happen in the culture war space because they already have it on lockdown.
The first thing to fix is the election system, if we don't have a trustworthy and transparent voting system nothing else will change
One of the first thing I find interesting when discussing systems is the way that there's two behaviors that people present: either they understand why the system has constraints and they respect those, or they don't and they seek to undermine them. It doesn't really matter the system of governance or laws. Once people get into a position where the constraints are biting them, the default behavior is to resist or undermine those restrictions. If the law says you need a certain amount of evidence, at some point the people being constrained by lack of evidence will find a way to work around that restriction. In our government this is called like Parallel Construction or Plausible Deniability or whatever else.
So when we were hunter gatherers there were people violating the rules - stealing, killing, etc, because they didn't see how these rules would benefit them. In Feudalism people seemed to find every possible shortcut around morality and righteousness. Buying indulgences is pretty amazing. In Communism, despite the outward constraints about the party being for the workers and everyone being equal, in practice it works quite differently. And in Capitalism people try to break every law possible that won't result in serious consequences.
In all these systems, people sort of exist within them, but they didn't agree to the constraints in thatsystem, or buy into the reasons they are necessary. Even when they do like in religious systems, they still try to cheat as much as possible. Over time these systems get undermined and lose their purpose.
So I think that's a really good starting point. How do you get people to participate in something without trying to undermine it at every level? I think it involves a fundamental buy in as to why the 'rules' are important and we want a society that doesn't spend most of their time trying to undermine the system they live in. But that sounds very authoritarian. I imagine it to be much more of an opt-in cooperative type thing. We all agree to uphold these values. If a time comes that we cannot uphold these values, we will find a different way of life.
I would like to see a start with a society that is not at war with itself, and where the citizens don't feel that rules are imposed on them by some ruler or system they didn't choose. I'd like to see a society where the citizens agree to the moral, legal, and cultural rules they will be bound by, and that it's a liberating and healing experience. And where these chosen beliefs help the people live the life they would like to have.
We must have a cooperative spirit guiding us forward. The We in altruistic action. The Us in compassion. Understanding that our individual happiness factor is effected by the whole.
"systems that aren’t corrupted" is a description of a single state, what we need are systems that are incorruptible, otherwise we have the same result as other revolutions where the new systems are instantly as corrupt as the old systems. Animal farm described this in a great simplistic story.
Nice theory but I don’t see it happening on a grand scale. Too many ppl simply going about their lives, living day to day, struggling to survive and feeling powerless. And do you think these institutions would ever want to disclose their corruption? They’ll just make up some law for you to break and toss you in prison.