The Top 5 Things We Can Do To Save America
What to do when a system has become fully corrupted.
What made America the most prosperous and successful nation of all time?
The land?
No. There is beautiful rich land all over this planet.
The People?
No. All of the people on Earth have the potential to be amazing.
It was the system.
The system is what made America amazing. A brilliant new (and decentralized for the time) system that allowed the people to have a strong say in their own governance. A system that protected the rights of the individual and created a platform for human opportunity. A system that evolved and fixed many of its own flaws and became a beacon of hope for millions of immigrants around the world who were trying to escape their own failed systems.
Systems matter. A lot.
Today, the systems in America have become corrupted to the core.
To fix this problem, it will require new ways of thinking and collaborating. The forces that have corrupted it are covert, powerful, and emotionless monoliths. In order to regain control we cannot fight them using traditional means. Voting alone will never fix it. We need to organize, assemble as citizens (citizen’s assembly), and build new trustworthy and transparent (and even more decentralized) systems to assist us.
These new systems must exist outside of governmental permission and oversight, or else - just like what happens to nearly all centralized entities - they will just become corrupted again. So we must build these systems on our own; improve them on our own, and then make an unwavering commitment to use them, test them, and keep them free from corruption. The new systems must plug into and fix the existing systems just like a plug-in for software fixes software systems. The systems need to be so good that they make the old ones obsolete.
Achieving this is possible, but it will require courage. It will require gumption. It will require extending olive branches and collaboration and cooperation. It will require being reasonable and empathetic on topics. It will require holding our politicians to the utmost scrutiny with the threat of citizen ballot measures and citizen juries and every force we can think of to hold them accountable as we fix it.
But it can be done. In fact, it must be.
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1) Build a New Digital System of Governance that makes the Old One Obsolete.
Let's Build a Parallel, Open, Decentralized, Democratic System Online that Plugs into Our Existing One
If the technology of today had existed 250 years ago when the American Democratic Republic was founded, do you think it would have been used to the advantage of the voters in creating a trustworthy form of government? The framers of the Constitution wanted to form a government that did not allow one person or entity to have too much control or authority…
2) Build a trustworthy digital platform where humans can go on “missions” together and collaborate in amazing new ways in the real world together.
Why Doesn't This Exist? A Platform for Human "Super Collaboration" (part 1).
First a weird question: Does anyone know Balaji S. Srinivasan? Because we want to follow him. No, not on Twitter. We want to follow him in real life. After listening to his epic eight hour podcast with Lex Fridman, Balaji gave his take on so many important topics such as his Network State idea (which he wrote a book about
3. Demand Transparency relentlessly and courageously. Transparency is the enemy of corruption. It’s time for a #TransparencyMovement
What We Need is a "Transparency Movement"
The biggest problem in the world today is that the systems that govern over our lives have become corrupted. Fixing the corrupted system should be line item #1. It should rank above all things - because nothing else matters. We say this often: If our system is corrupted, that’s like the equivalent of having a computer that has a corrupted motherboard. A…
4) Understand and Embrace Decentralized systems and demand them everywhere:
Embrace Decentralized Systems. Fear Centralized Ones. Know The Difference.
The number one most important factor for determining quality of life on Earth is this: What kind of system do you live under? Think about it. If you tell us what kind of systems you live under - from systems of government, medicine, family, infrastructure, education, religion, community and more - chances are we can predict what kind of life you have…
5) Take a moment to understand the message Satoshi Nakamoto was trying to tell us. Don’t think of Bitcoin as an investment, or even as a technology. Think of it as a protest to the corruption and the people corrupting out systems.
SATOSHI'S ALIVE! An Exclusive Interview with the Legendary Creator of Bitcoin & His Message for Humanity
artist credit photo (above) This was the most amazing experience of our lives. Of course you shouldn’t believe it ever happened. Like we always recommend - you should demand transparency from us and ask for evidence. Nullius in Verba. Take no one’s word.
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Thank you. Many excellent ideas embedded, I will have to take some time to go through them. I appreciate the thoughtful content. Decentralization is definitely essential, using technology to improve lives and empower transparency, and a return to a relationship of reverence for nature and life will all be essential as we create these new parallel communities.
It's time to bust out the anecdote.