So the fundamental cultural trait the human species needs to evolve to move on from here is: how to resist gangsters without becoming gangsters? How can a decentralised sociable egalitarian network successfully co-operate to resist a large scale militaristic hierarchy?
Change SYSTEMS (that's what cybernetics is all about - designing better systems and timely feedback loops so that systems can continuously be evolved based on different inputs). Hence, change CAPITALISM into something better (using combinations from the best of capitalism, socialism communism, and other isms and variations).
But before deciding what SYSTEM should replace the existing one (neoliberal capitalism), experimentation and observation of such small experiments need to be performed in various countries and socio-economic conditions, and then the results need to be analyzed and systematically studied - so that we don't replace Capitalism with something equally bad (or worse).
Divide and conquer...divide and conquer...divide and conquer--then REPEAT.
So the fundamental cultural trait the human species needs to evolve to move on from here is: how to resist gangsters without becoming gangsters? How can a decentralised sociable egalitarian network successfully co-operate to resist a large scale militaristic hierarchy?
Change SYSTEMS (that's what cybernetics is all about - designing better systems and timely feedback loops so that systems can continuously be evolved based on different inputs). Hence, change CAPITALISM into something better (using combinations from the best of capitalism, socialism communism, and other isms and variations).
But before deciding what SYSTEM should replace the existing one (neoliberal capitalism), experimentation and observation of such small experiments need to be performed in various countries and socio-economic conditions, and then the results need to be analyzed and systematically studied - so that we don't replace Capitalism with something equally bad (or worse).
i once read that is more or less how chinese democracy works.