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Balanced Governance's avatar

I struggled with a related question: "What would governments look like 1000 years from now, after the collapse of our society?" The answer to our questions may be a matter of observation and design based on existing templates provided by Nature. Biomimicry. Economy can be designed with more careful attention to the entire digestive and metabolic system, specifically, to the mechanisms of positive and negative feedback loops, and the governing principle of homeostasis. And the fractal design of structures where energy is generated, distributed and managed. The answers (or at least the hints) are right in front of us. The templates for managing a highly complex human system have evolved, and can be applied to our collective body politic.

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Balanced Governance's avatar

You would enjoy the classic "Ecotopia" by Ernest Callenbach. It is a fictional yet plausible account of a working economy.

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Hannah Emery, PhD's avatar

One really lovely account of how this might work that I've seen is Starhawk's novels--The Fifth Sacred Thing and especially City of Refuge have what feels like a pretty solid model for small-scale collective living.

Thank you for this really thoughtful take. :)

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Rainbow Roxy's avatar

This piece really made me think. 'Design for decay' is a brilliant frame. It makes me wonder about applying this to AI's ethical uprades. What a concept!

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