The Future of Governance
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Introduction
OSE is working on tols for creating civilization from scratch. Outside the technosphere, this also includes governance. OSE's plans focus on practical experiments, where we take wasteland and convert it to paradise. This wiki provides documentation on how to get there.
Principles
For the governance aspect, here are some core principles that we are exploring.
- No laws, but only guidelines. One may atgue that without coercion-based enforcement, laws hold no power. We aim to test whether social pressure based governance is sufficient. For example - we don't say "You can't cut down a tree without replanting one in its place". We do say, "When you cut down a tree, it is desirable to plant another in its place" - and provide support to make that happen. And if a person does not follow this, they are sanctioned by losing status or privileges. This addresses the issues of coercion and exclusion. Coercion is eliminated, and perpetrators are not ostracized, but assisted. For this to work, an effective mechanism of banishment to enforce the rule of law without coercion must be created.
- Tbe highest laws are he laws of ethics and love for other humans and nature.
- Clarity on the difference between ignorance and evil must be sought at all times. The ignorant must be educated. The evil must be sanctioned.
- Constant striving for personal and political transformation must be the basis of a just system. The connection between personal and macrosocial psychology should be studied.
- Reality must be accepted. According to the principles of General Semantics, the map is not the territory.
- A just system must strive for understanding of cognitive bias in all of its forms.
- Theft or despoliation of the commonwealth is not allowed. Participants of a just system must strive for clear understanding of the distinction between public and private.
