Decenter Civilization
# Decenter Civilization
- Civilization as we know it is endemically (widely? intrinsically?) corrupt
- This corruption is manifest in individuals caught up in a systemic web of toxic incentives
- We can't go back to "innocent" societies of autonomous villages
- God wants us to seek something better
What should be our response?
- our goal
- our role
- our soul
## Systemic Corruption
1. Societies become (imperial) civilizations to provide more of a scarce public good (typically military security vs long-term threats)
2. Centralized systems are the easiest way to increase productivity for those scarce goods [also create an umbrella for "boutique" decentralized alternatives]
3. Only when systems are sophisticated enough to have an "intent" can we have aligned versus mis-aligned incentives ("corruption")
4. We have to go beyond that system to discuss whether such corruption is "evil"
## Compare: The Logos Cycle
https://twitter.com/microurbanism/status/1667589489869590530
- Logos defines an identity
- Existence as homeostasis: compressible/durable
- How local costs create global benefit
- Sin is violation of that logos
- Without logos there is no sin
- Once there is logos, sin is inevitable
- Adding new logos to fix the old sin creates complexity that causes more sin
- To do better, we must crucify the old logos to birth a new one
- The best we can do is to get better at the cycle of crucifixion and new birth
https://www.youtube.com/@datocracy