Irreni Introduction: After Represenative Democracy
After Representative Democracy
Hi! Happy Sunday! YAII! Yet another Irreni introduction!
In a previous introduction, "Dead Democracy Today", I gave a financial argument as to why representative democracy is dead by arguing that Federal budget being twice that of all fifty states combined has neutered the states. The Federal government gives back those taxes to states with all kinds of laws attached, thereby controlling the states in a way that nullifies state power.
In this introduction the argument is made that representative democracy is dead based upon two dimensions:
1. Technical diversity
2. Technical complexity
Every Federal law today has a vast technical component to it, from war-killing to health-care life saving. Our representatives in Congress are the winners of a popularity contest called voting and these are the people voting on the laws to pass them.
The problem with popularity contests are two-fold:
1. The small sub-set of people who will compete in a popularity contest.
2. The popularity contest skills for campaigning have nothing to do with law making.
After 9/11 Micheal Moore released a movie, "Fahrenheit 9/11". In that movie Moore surprised many people when he questioned both Republicans and Democrats as to whether they had even read the Patriot Act. The Patriot Act was only two pages. And even at two pages most Republicans and Democrats answered they had not read the law they passed.
This was no surprise to me, however. I've been following politics since the 1980s. During the 1990s I read a study that indicated that 90% of all laws passed by Congress were not written by the law makers. Instead laws were being written by lobbyists.
Our law makers are not writing the laws. Why not? Because the laws deal with technical issues well beyond the intellectual capability of the law makers to write laws about. The Federal government has limited technical expertise. Government agencies like "The Nation Institution of Health" issue grants to universities and corporations rather than have expertise themselves.
To whit, all the technical expertise exists in the universities and corporations and not the government. Add into the mix the fact that universities themselves do not make legislation then this leaves only corporations to write legislation. These experts who work for the corporations are obviously under the influence of their pay checks.
And guess what? The experts working for corporations writing the laws are not being voted on.
The fact that our law makers are not making the laws is yet another nail in the coffin of dead democracy. We no longer live in the United States of America, but something perverted that is far removed.
We are not informed today on a daily basis of the corporate corruption of our law making. There is a belief out there that if we remove corporate money from campaign finance then corporate corruption will be lessened. However, this belief ignores the unseen corporate corruption that corporations have been writing 90% of our laws going on forty years now.
Again this is because all laws these days address a technical complexity our law makers lacking understanding of. Further the diversity of laws that need to be passed implies a diversity of technical complexity that is impossible for a body of 500 people to address who must vote on each issue.
So we are reduced to partisan squabbling because the law makers understand not that which they have wrought. If our law makers try to wade into technical aspects they end of holding snowballs of climate change or inter-tubes of Internet.
Can we solve today's technical problems with new strategies of today, like say flash mobs made possible by the Internet? Most flash mobs are mobs of fun like pillow fights or stripping down to skivvies and riding the subway.
What if we made flash mobs for making law?
In this case I'd like you to imagine a flash mob of technical experts. This flash mob gets together to write legislation about a technical area. The legislation is written in an hour, or a day, and then the mob disperses.
In this thought exercise the corporate corruption is removed by a quick forming group of experts. The legislation would be corrupt, however, due to insufficient study.
What we need is to add enough time for the mob to make an adequate assessment and law. Let's call this a convention.
So we instigate conventions of volunteer experts who can take as long as needed, years even. to study the problem and enact legislation.
I'd argue this could eliminate corporate corruption as long as the convention process is policed to ensure this. Assuming adequate government funding for studying the problem then superior legislation could easily be crafted relative to anything we have today.
But would conventions be good enough? No. Anyone who has worked on a technical project can tell you the inherent problems with an front-loaded design, a.k.a. the waterfall approach.
What is the waterfall approach? The waterfall approach simply stated is that the first design is the correct and efficient design. Once designed a project is then implemented. The implementation is tested. The final implementation is released to the public. This is called the waterfall approach as opposed to the "shit-rolls-down-hill" approach because waterfall is a euphemism for shit rolling downhill. Typically upper management makes the design decisions and the next level of management oversees implementation. The next lower level of management oversees testing and the lowest level of management oversees product release. The downhill part reflects a management waterfall of decisions being handed down. And of course every employees position in the downhill stream is tied to the level of management they report too.
The waterfall approach has been proven to be disastrous because the first design is never the right one. This happens with public projects most of the time. This is why one is almost always guaranteed there will be cost overruns for any project: the initial design was inadequate.
Legislation is hostile to effective technology because the initial law cannot be easily iterated to reflect required changes. The legislative process changes too slow, it cannot support multiple iterations needed for design changes. The legislative process is also inadequate; legislative bodies pass a very small set of bills each year relative what would be needed for technical iteration. The ACA was doomed from the git-go for no other reason then it could not be iterated adequately.
A body of 500 representatives, each having to vote on every law, cannot cope with technical complexity. No person can hope to understand even at a cursory level all of the technologies from genetics to computing. It is impossible.
Representative Democracy is inadequate and insufficient to the tasks managed by legislation today.
What's the Irreni World Scale solution?
1. Projects replace legislation.
2. MGOs replace corporations.
This is only an introduction so the details of what is presented here are not included.
Irreni World Scale eliminates government and corporations and replaces them with MGOs and projects. MGOs are containers of governments. Each micro-modular governing organization, MGO, of size 30 has a constitution of supreme authority. Further modules of micro-modular governing organizations are combined to form modular governing organizations, MGO, with new by-laws. These MGOs are themselves combined with further by-laws to create macro-modular governing organizations, MGOs. MGOs are aligned not around politics, but technical function. Technical functions include every job occupation there exists today.
Projects are implemented by MGOs of varying sizes.
What projects are chosen to be implemented and how are they funded?
Projects are voted on by MGOs. Irreni World Scale requires a new piece of software called, "The Vote Bank".
The Vote Bank is briefly described as a piece of software where votes are deposited and public. Imagine your checking account software with money deposited. The Vote bank replaces money with votes, where the balance is made public. Further Irreni relies on an indirect voting strategy called six-degrees voting. People only vote on people they know. These people they know themselves cast votes that represent all the votes for them and not just their individual vote. Voting blocks then replace political parties.
Project selection and funding are managed via six-degrees voting. Six-degrees voting promotes merit based voting. People are free to vote for people who are experts, experts who themselves are not running for "office". The decision to vote for an expert who is promoting a project also means voting for the various MGOs. Everyone in Irreni World Scale belongs to an MGO. Just like your favorite sports team each MGO will have a track record of success. Groups of MGOs, also MGOs, will also have track records of delivering on projects.
This is primarily a merit based system. But, like all human endeavors, the voting system is susceptible to corruption. The issue, however, is not whether a human system is susceptible to corruption, but does a system manage corruption? Irreni World Scale manages corruption via a process called corruption voting. Corruption voting will be left for another introduction.
Irreni World Scale manages technical complexity and diversity by utilizing containers of governing organizations call MGOs. These containers, like Lego blocks, can be put together in various new combinations easily at any time. This kind of "flash mob" type of flexibility of recombination addresses technical complexity at any scale. Technical diversity is managed by elimination of legislation altogether and instead relies on projects. There are 300 million MGOs that can be combined in any size and strategy to address a diverse set of projects of any size.
Freedom!
Party On!
Let's get cracking!
Voluntarily Reject Demagoguery!
Politics as Science!
Demand Irreni World Scale!
Anti-theism is feminism!
Think disruption!
Empathy for all!
Moral relativity: think it, breath it!
Prove it or lose it!
Conversations equal consensus!
Welcome to the 21st century!
Scale your empathy, scale the world!
Find your tribe!
Be sexy people!
The future is coming!
Innovate at a rapid pace!
Slow speed ahead!
Well come! and well met!
Hi! Happy Sunday! YAII! Yet another Irreni introduction!
In a previous introduction, "Dead Democracy Today", I gave a financial argument as to why representative democracy is dead by arguing that Federal budget being twice that of all fifty states combined has neutered the states. The Federal government gives back those taxes to states with all kinds of laws attached, thereby controlling the states in a way that nullifies state power.
In this introduction the argument is made that representative democracy is dead based upon two dimensions:
1. Technical diversity
2. Technical complexity
Every Federal law today has a vast technical component to it, from war-killing to health-care life saving. Our representatives in Congress are the winners of a popularity contest called voting and these are the people voting on the laws to pass them.
The problem with popularity contests are two-fold:
1. The small sub-set of people who will compete in a popularity contest.
2. The popularity contest skills for campaigning have nothing to do with law making.
After 9/11 Micheal Moore released a movie, "Fahrenheit 9/11". In that movie Moore surprised many people when he questioned both Republicans and Democrats as to whether they had even read the Patriot Act. The Patriot Act was only two pages. And even at two pages most Republicans and Democrats answered they had not read the law they passed.
This was no surprise to me, however. I've been following politics since the 1980s. During the 1990s I read a study that indicated that 90% of all laws passed by Congress were not written by the law makers. Instead laws were being written by lobbyists.
Our law makers are not writing the laws. Why not? Because the laws deal with technical issues well beyond the intellectual capability of the law makers to write laws about. The Federal government has limited technical expertise. Government agencies like "The Nation Institution of Health" issue grants to universities and corporations rather than have expertise themselves.
To whit, all the technical expertise exists in the universities and corporations and not the government. Add into the mix the fact that universities themselves do not make legislation then this leaves only corporations to write legislation. These experts who work for the corporations are obviously under the influence of their pay checks.
And guess what? The experts working for corporations writing the laws are not being voted on.
The fact that our law makers are not making the laws is yet another nail in the coffin of dead democracy. We no longer live in the United States of America, but something perverted that is far removed.
Representative Democracy, noun:
1. The notion that because *you* vote for someone, even when advised by an expert, then this will result in a better or adequate decision maker rather than using an expert.
2. The notion that corruption of decision makers is apparent enough that *you* will provide a check on corruption by voting in someone else, see also 90% incumbency rate.
We are not informed today on a daily basis of the corporate corruption of our law making. There is a belief out there that if we remove corporate money from campaign finance then corporate corruption will be lessened. However, this belief ignores the unseen corporate corruption that corporations have been writing 90% of our laws going on forty years now.
Again this is because all laws these days address a technical complexity our law makers lacking understanding of. Further the diversity of laws that need to be passed implies a diversity of technical complexity that is impossible for a body of 500 people to address who must vote on each issue.
So we are reduced to partisan squabbling because the law makers understand not that which they have wrought. If our law makers try to wade into technical aspects they end of holding snowballs of climate change or inter-tubes of Internet.
Can we solve today's technical problems with new strategies of today, like say flash mobs made possible by the Internet? Most flash mobs are mobs of fun like pillow fights or stripping down to skivvies and riding the subway.
What if we made flash mobs for making law?
In this case I'd like you to imagine a flash mob of technical experts. This flash mob gets together to write legislation about a technical area. The legislation is written in an hour, or a day, and then the mob disperses.
In this thought exercise the corporate corruption is removed by a quick forming group of experts. The legislation would be corrupt, however, due to insufficient study.
What we need is to add enough time for the mob to make an adequate assessment and law. Let's call this a convention.
So we instigate conventions of volunteer experts who can take as long as needed, years even. to study the problem and enact legislation.
I'd argue this could eliminate corporate corruption as long as the convention process is policed to ensure this. Assuming adequate government funding for studying the problem then superior legislation could easily be crafted relative to anything we have today.
But would conventions be good enough? No. Anyone who has worked on a technical project can tell you the inherent problems with an front-loaded design, a.k.a. the waterfall approach.
What is the waterfall approach? The waterfall approach simply stated is that the first design is the correct and efficient design. Once designed a project is then implemented. The implementation is tested. The final implementation is released to the public. This is called the waterfall approach as opposed to the "shit-rolls-down-hill" approach because waterfall is a euphemism for shit rolling downhill. Typically upper management makes the design decisions and the next level of management oversees implementation. The next lower level of management oversees testing and the lowest level of management oversees product release. The downhill part reflects a management waterfall of decisions being handed down. And of course every employees position in the downhill stream is tied to the level of management they report too.
The waterfall approach has been proven to be disastrous because the first design is never the right one. This happens with public projects most of the time. This is why one is almost always guaranteed there will be cost overruns for any project: the initial design was inadequate.
Legislation is hostile to effective technology because the initial law cannot be easily iterated to reflect required changes. The legislative process changes too slow, it cannot support multiple iterations needed for design changes. The legislative process is also inadequate; legislative bodies pass a very small set of bills each year relative what would be needed for technical iteration. The ACA was doomed from the git-go for no other reason then it could not be iterated adequately.
A body of 500 representatives, each having to vote on every law, cannot cope with technical complexity. No person can hope to understand even at a cursory level all of the technologies from genetics to computing. It is impossible.
Representative Democracy is inadequate and insufficient to the tasks managed by legislation today.
What's the Irreni World Scale solution?
1. Projects replace legislation.
2. MGOs replace corporations.
This is only an introduction so the details of what is presented here are not included.
Irreni World Scale eliminates government and corporations and replaces them with MGOs and projects. MGOs are containers of governments. Each micro-modular governing organization, MGO, of size 30 has a constitution of supreme authority. Further modules of micro-modular governing organizations are combined to form modular governing organizations, MGO, with new by-laws. These MGOs are themselves combined with further by-laws to create macro-modular governing organizations, MGOs. MGOs are aligned not around politics, but technical function. Technical functions include every job occupation there exists today.
Projects are implemented by MGOs of varying sizes.
What projects are chosen to be implemented and how are they funded?
Projects are voted on by MGOs. Irreni World Scale requires a new piece of software called, "The Vote Bank".
The Vote Bank is briefly described as a piece of software where votes are deposited and public. Imagine your checking account software with money deposited. The Vote bank replaces money with votes, where the balance is made public. Further Irreni relies on an indirect voting strategy called six-degrees voting. People only vote on people they know. These people they know themselves cast votes that represent all the votes for them and not just their individual vote. Voting blocks then replace political parties.
Project selection and funding are managed via six-degrees voting. Six-degrees voting promotes merit based voting. People are free to vote for people who are experts, experts who themselves are not running for "office". The decision to vote for an expert who is promoting a project also means voting for the various MGOs. Everyone in Irreni World Scale belongs to an MGO. Just like your favorite sports team each MGO will have a track record of success. Groups of MGOs, also MGOs, will also have track records of delivering on projects.
This is primarily a merit based system. But, like all human endeavors, the voting system is susceptible to corruption. The issue, however, is not whether a human system is susceptible to corruption, but does a system manage corruption? Irreni World Scale manages corruption via a process called corruption voting. Corruption voting will be left for another introduction.
Irreni World Scale manages technical complexity and diversity by utilizing containers of governing organizations call MGOs. These containers, like Lego blocks, can be put together in various new combinations easily at any time. This kind of "flash mob" type of flexibility of recombination addresses technical complexity at any scale. Technical diversity is managed by elimination of legislation altogether and instead relies on projects. There are 300 million MGOs that can be combined in any size and strategy to address a diverse set of projects of any size.
Freedom!
Party On!
Let's get cracking!
Voluntarily Reject Demagoguery!
Politics as Science!
Demand Irreni World Scale!
Anti-theism is feminism!
Think disruption!
Empathy for all!
Moral relativity: think it, breath it!
Prove it or lose it!
Conversations equal consensus!
Welcome to the 21st century!
Scale your empathy, scale the world!
Find your tribe!
Be sexy people!
The future is coming!
Innovate at a rapid pace!
Slow speed ahead!
Well come! and well met!
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