i decided to compile all the political proposals i’ve made with in various debates on this site into one big proposal for a hypothetical political model:
Governance: global direct democracy, with a nested council system wherein everyone can vote in the global council, anyone can vote in the territory council of their own territory, anyone can vote in the regional council for their own region, and anyone can vote in the local council of their own town. to represent this visually:
so each dot represents an individual, each square represents a council, and the red lines extending from each individual indicate the councils they would be able to vote in. (there would obviously be more people and councils than this, but that would be too many to visually represent, so this will have to do)
this allows for total direct democracy, as well as quickness and flexibility with regard to dealing with local issues, while still allowing for global-level coordination when necessary. these councils would take the form of internet forums wherein people could submit proposals to be debated and voted on.
Economy/Manufacturing: Fully Automated Luxury Communism, with heavy use of 3-D printing. in the place of most stores, we would have massive 3-D printers, which would produce items on the spot from either pre-loaded designs, or deigns downloaded off the internet. in the same way that competition for internet attention and views and notes and likes and such drives people to create stuff on minecraft or whatever, thanks to 3-D printing, this impetus can be harnessed to create actual usable goods. by giving people ~notes~ or ~views~ or whatever you want to call them for making frequently downloaded products, there’s still the element of reward/competition, without linking this element to the level of access people have to basic vital necessities.
Law Enforcement: If a violent crime was reported, nearby drones would activate, and would be able to be controlled by any citizen, to then neutralize the situation using non-lethal weaponry (there would be game-like simulations which would train people in the use of these drones). the video feed from these drones would be publicly viewable by everyone, and if someone was misusing the drone they were controlling, other people who saw that would be able to shut the drone down and the person who misused the drone would be barred from controlling law enforcement drones in the future. this allows for violence to be prevented without the creation of a separate policing class which is above the law.
Drug Law: All currently illegal drugs available for free in a controlled context, similar to the free heroin programs in the Netherlands. This ends the pointless and harmful war on drugs, while preventing the existence of a drug industry which exploits users for profit (and is thus incentivized to push users to dangerous excess).
Religion: An official position of agnosticism and the encouragement of cross-faith unity in the shared understanding of religion/mysticism within the framework of viewing symbolism/myth/ritual as tools for the overall shared goal of increasing human well-being, as well as the creation of new universally accessible ritual/myth/symbolism around this concept which isn’t tied to any previously existing belief system (ala Lunacharsky’s theories on Godbuilding, or the statue of liberty as a post-religious civic/mythic quasi-deity, or the cult of reason from the french revolution)
reblogging because holy shit.
I like that we’re all designing utopias and religions now, that’s a positive sign
I was going to say “fractals!” with as a digression “(that’s the modern equivalent of ‘wheels within wheels’)”
but then I realized the digression was more interesting
