Social technology and abundance

Daniel Golliher
July 2023

Guiding idea: in order to achieve the politics of abundance, we need: (1) far more people to understand how government and law work (this includes knowledge of political history), (2) they need to be formally trained by novel institutions aimed at that purpose, and (3) they need to be networked together. 

Reading:

• Atlantis on the Hudson: Our Pre-Technological Politics

• The Adams Imperative: the Call to Good Governance

• For Political Founders, the Bar of Minimum Viable Knowledge is High

• The Anti-Concreteness Meme

• Taking Politics Seriously

Suggested reading:

• B-minus Politics Are Best

• We Must Outcompete the Anti-Politics Meme That Holds Back Good Governance

• Political Affordances: Exploring Every Possibility in Politics