How to govern ourselves is the most existential problem that mankind faces today. We may eventually all die because of global warming but the bad governing policy decisions being made by the world power structure every day is killing and causing suffering for more people at a much grater rate than global warming or any other cause.

As a population, we are smart, innovative and phenomenal problem solvers in the science and engineering world. Not so in the political and cultural domain where things seem to get worse and worse.

My first assumption looking st this problem was that we needed a blueprint like language whose meaning was clear and precise if we were to solve our political problems. Further reflection however showed that it wasn’t a language problem but that we needed a complete redesign of the concept of how a population of over 7 billion people can effectively govern themselves for the good of all people.

Some of the key things I will discuss are the need for a new science of “the greater good”, how the concept of democracy may be our eventual downfall because democracy doesn’t work, can’t work but we have no other tools in our toolkit. I believe there is a “truth” in collective logic and rational that we can use to make better policy decisions than democratic popularity.

These are my ideas and the ideas of one person have very little value but if these ideas are reinforced by many other minds conferring, evolving and giving them legitimacy, they can begin to make a change.

My ideas are strongly based on engineering metaphors, not surprising since my former life was as an engineer. In engineering, decisions are made by experts who become experts by training, experience and mentorship.

Stay tuned. My next post will be about how democracy could doom us.