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