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Every county would send a delegate to the global governance, which would be the World Unity Council. So we would maximize democratic engagement locally (county)
by BuckRogers 7y ago
Every county would send a delegate to the global governance, which would be the World Unity Council. So we would maximize democratic engagement locally (county), and have direct and equal influence in the global body.
As long as democracy is healthy in both places, it won't ever be perfect, but it'll be as good as it gets. Unless we unleash AI to run the world before that, and I think that's more likely to happen.
Half the population views direct democracy as some sort of distrustful evil. Just the way people seem to be, especially when democracy doesn't go their way. Conspiracy theories.
It's all about good management, with anything. It's never perfect or suits everyone all the time. That's just the human condition.
So as a result we're most likely going to be dominated by AI at some point in the near future. It's probably what humanity overall deserves since people don't want to be sensible and engage in democracy. Even though it's immensely fulfilling to become connected to your own destiny and relevant community- it's work, and people don't like that. I do think more people would do it, if they saw direct, near-immediate results from their engagement, which does not really exist as much today.
So after a couple billionaires have a nuclear war, we'll end up putting the robots in charge, unless the robots simply takeover first- and we'll be done with it.