Election Reform Ideas: What, How and Why

That has been a project of mine over the past few years, although more based upon methods than values. One reason why is because most “wealth” now is virtual, so on an institutional level already divorced from geography. Another because modern communications have destroyed the illusion that you and your neighbor share the same values or goals about anything, which makes most borders look more like hostages than citizens. Online social networking sites get part way there in grouping by affinity or interest, but don’t facilitate users creating and administrating actual social structures.

So what I am working on is a kind of meta-country which offers support to anyone who prefers to secede from their current country and start new ones, and to network with other people’s countries. To replaced the “imagined community” of an abstract de-facto state with actual community of people who choose to work together. And to update the concept of nation-states from the Westphalian model of violent control of populace and territory to something more modern, civilized, and network/relationship-based.

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