Bit Cryptic. A Nonlinear Problem Needs A Nonlinear Solution
As I see it, human communal behavior has three central features: scenarios, biases and stipulated facts. Our existing Medieval political systems have made all three relative so there is no accountability. Consequently, the public’s only recourse is an escalating polarization, which can only be vented in an ever higher decibel range. It is, absolutely and positively, a blackhole.
So, seems to me the ONLY way is to explore in parallel non-representative, digital issue voting/polling systems. This way there is a baseline for stipulated facts, which moves us down the road away from alternative facts and fake news. Biases will remain but be fluid and yet quantifiable.
The key feature, however, is to find scenarios for prioritizing societal goals that can then be tracked and measured. In systems this is an “outside-in” approach that eliminates the infinite number of incremental ways to guess how to go forward and only benefits politicians because it confuses the hell out of the public.
For what it is worth!
Doc Huston
