[governance] Fundamentally broken design of society

[Norbert Bollow]

Dear Kicki,
  I very strongly agree with your assertion that the real problem
lies with a fundamentally broken design of society!

(Note: The following sentence is perhaps a bit complicated, but
it can be safely ignored by all but the most pedantic of readers.
In the above statement, I understand "design of society" to mean
both the currently existing system by means of which society as a
whole is composed out of a very large number of sub-systems, as
well the way in which the decisions are made by means of which
society as a whole is allowed to evolve.)

Now the question arises, how can this fundamental brokenness be
fixed?

Certainly it is not possible for society as a whole to get fixed
all at once!

So the best that can be done, in my opinion, is to start small,
get a small but diverse group of people together (electronically,
by means of a mailing list) who agree on wanting to figure out
how a subsystem of society can be constructed which avoids the
kind of fundamental "design of society" flaws that result in the
production of _disabling_ software.  I'm sure that when we figure
out how to produce, within such a subsystem of society, computer
software which is not disabling but rather empowering for everyone,
that kind of software is going to be a commercial success also with
the large number of computer users who are not particularly
interested in "design of society" problems.

What do you think?

Gruss,
Norbert.


-- 
Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch>                    http://Norbert.ch
Präsident der Swiss Internet User Group SIUG        http://SIUG.ch
Die SIUG engagiert sich für den Schutz der Privatsphäre und dafür,
dass auch in Zukunft das Internet auf offenen Standards basiert.
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