Owning activation while posting. A bottleneck I’m encountering is some belief that I shouldn’t post or respond when I’m triggered but there’s a lot of motility and I need to do something new. I’ll be including both what I think the trigger is about and my rebuttal and I’m going to endeavor not to devalue my points because I’m triggered. I’m thinking of putting the awareness of the trigger in parentheses but might play with the format. Feel open now to respond to comments about either
digital sociology
We Need World One Goverment. Argument: Currently, there are a host of problems, challenges, and opportunities that cannot be adequately addressed within national borders (COVID, pollution, global warming, piracy, tax havens, AI, etc). And this creates arms races and problem of the commons issues.
In order to resolve these problems or take full advantage of the opportunities, we need one world government that can make consistent policy across the globe.
It could be like the US with States or EU with nations, but there needs to be a stronger world government, UN doesn’t cut it.
Argue for/against/synthesis
Balaji Srinivasan argues that we’re going to be developing a "Network State" which might obviate, or evolve, thinking about what even is a global governance: https://thenetworkstate.com/ I think UpTrust done right will move us toward a healthy network state...