Our archipelago of world crises is, in fact, an undersea mountain range.

Whilst each ‘island’—environmental overshoot, war, surveillance, inequality—is different from the other, each is anchored in the Stone Age impulses of ‘This is mine’ & ‘I must prevail’.

Stone Age societies were organized to neutralize those impulses—which is how they survived.

We should do the same.

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The first (Greek) & second (American) 'drafts' of democracy were created to throw off tyrants & oligarchs, & give the ordinary citizen a say in government.

No such system exists today.

It's almost as if we need a third draft.

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"The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country."

- Hermann Goring, 1945

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A modern citizen's right to say anything he wants is like his right to stable his horse at an inn: present in law but of little practical use.

Billionaires own & shape our information - nearly all of it.

You can't change the world without reforming information.

"My Book of the Year." - Prof Guy Standing, author of The Precariat (Dec 2024)

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From the Stone Age to the Information Age, a test of a society's survivability has been its ability to divorce wealth from political power.

Third draft democracy relocates each to its separate domain.

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We've decided that kings & despots can no longer govern us - that whites can no longer rule non-whites, & men can no longer rule women.

So why are we still ruled by wealth?

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We need less law enacted by politicians, & more demotic law: law made by the people, through direct votes or deliberative assemblies.

The assemblies could link across borders, from time to time, to gradually shape an international legal regime.

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A key issue of 2024 has been the capture of US foreign policy by Israel.

However, if it wasn't Israel, it'd be someone else.

The goal should be not to negate one influence, but to capture-proof the system.

Our chance to escape our rising, & overlapping, crises, lies in thinking less about single issues & more about system design.

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