Part II
What are we sliding towards? Society is at a near turning point. The world is at a turning point. When the social contract was spoken about during the revolutionary times of Europe in the 1600-1700's they rationalized the bonding humans in exchange for freedoms (all relative of course to the heavy hand of the ruling monarchs, yet still significant). The government would give protection, the people their backs. Today, governments are having an issue handling their end of the contract. But the question is whether or not that is entirely the fault of the government. It is part of the job of the people to properly put in place their mental picture of themselves by voting in large masses. Today that simply doesn't happen. The government can first take away your right to vote. Meaning you are equal to nothing. Then with the proper "documentation" you are removed from voting. Meaning you are equal to nothing. In my United States, a full 37% of the population chose to vote. We are not a democracy. We are ruled by less than a majority. We are flawed. The people have failed. And thus, the government has been unable to act properly without our leadership.
It is time for an evolution. Maybe the technology that I harp on so often is the thing of most important to look at to create this proper choosing power of a group. Already we have a national numbering system, your Social Security number. As well, we have damn near 100% of the country with at least weekly access to a computer. Why not (and yes there is much work behind us here) have 100% of the country vote on 100% of the laws passed by the US Congress. With the job of the Congress to be the public speakers of the various regions. No gigantic tax laws hundreds of pages long. Who cares if the United States congress passes 10,000 laws a year. There are 300,000,000 people in the United States. At most, 536 people have to sign off on a law to make it so (including el Presidente and also realizing that a significant portion of the Senators don't vote on everything and an embarrassing chunk have no idea what they voted on). Which means, if 536 people vote on 10,000 items, we would need 1 in 20 Americans to vote once a year to vote the same number of times. So lets say 37% of the United States votes once a year, well, then the number of votes per item would increase from 526 people to 11,100 per item. Now lets say those people who voted vote FIVE times a year. Suddenly we would have 55,500 people voting on every single item. And now lets say voting penetration within this country increases from 37& to 74%. Suddenly, on every single issue before our nation, there would be in excess of 100,000 votes, on average. Group intelligence would pull us ahead. We would simply know what needs to be done and cleaned and removed from society. Ideas would ripple through and the speakers would become respected seers who would help lead with only words about minimal concepts and ideas.
Lets play with the numbers a bit. Let us leave the population at 300,000,000 people. Lets us increase the percentage of population voting in the Utopian society to 98%. Let us increase the number of issues that are voted on from 10,000 to 1,000,000. Let us also increase the rate of voting from five times a year to twice a day. Two emails a day. Two logs on a website a day. Two mental clicks in our mind browsers which are attached to the network by RFID-like inbedded communications systems that help us move in this flowing world. Thirty seconds a piece of the split decision due to the society being one in which news flows and people have a particular and wide knowledge of what goes on around them. As well, our computer systems are intelligent enough to know 'experts" in the field or at least those who are more educated, simply by watching reading habits, seeing the social forums people are part of, looking at their history of voting patterns, the people they associate with, their jobs, educations, families and so on. There are many ways to know what a person knows well. Of course we remove the computer from voting because we still haven't figured out the random patterns that seem to come from our minds. But we can follow along where they go once let out. Suddenly, a knowing public is voting on items. 1,000,000 items a year go through the system. 98% of 300,000,000 voting twice a day means each item will have 214,620 people voting on each item. These people will be near the industry. These people will not be paid to vote. These people will have significantly different perspectives in their focus.
Yeah some scary things above were said, but in a society like we are moving toward, we would be fighting some scary problems.