IX. Theory of Government: From Potshards to Blockchains
Building Infrastructure for the Next Millenium
What Is a Liberal? goes back to the Latin: not a party, not a platform, but libertas — the arts that make us free. Open systems outcompete closed ones. Good analysis pays compound interest; bad analysis incurs compound debt. And reality always bats last.
What If We Actually Tried Democracy? asks the question they keep hoping we won’t think about. Because we don’t have to gather all the voters in one marketplace, anymore.
The Federation Option dreams out loud about a democratic commonwealth stretching from Kyiv to Vancouver — not empire, not a superstate, but sovereign democracies choosing coordination because it works better than the alternatives.
The Commonwealth Alternative excavates what “commonwealth” was actually supposed to mean — then finds two cultures that implemented it for real: the Scottish Gaelic clan system and the Iroquois Confederacy, both crushed not because they failed but because they were incompatible with empire.
The piece in which the mongoose asks: What if we just educated the kids, and filled the potholes? Why do we have to make everything so hard?