Individuals with technical or math-based education are likely familiar with Norbert Wiener’s principles of cybernetics, which assert that every system consists of an input, output, process, and a Reaction Feedback loop. Cybernetics lays the groundwork for computers and coding, and all contemporary autonomous systems (tech, code, economic, social etc) function based on these postulates, as firmly established as Einstein’s principles of relativity. One key postulate states that a system is destroyed when its Reaction Feedback is compromised, meaning it cannot respond effectively to changes in the external environment.
Currently, this failure is evident in our world’s governance systems, which rely either on rigid frameworks of “laws and regulations” or on a network of medieval “kingships,” where elected or self-appointed “dear leaders” dictate how the rest of us should live.
For the past three to four thousand years, this centralized governance model has been disastrous, costing billions of human lives due to the irrational whims of tyrannical rulers, who disguise their actions as “grand plans for development,” often culminating in widespread human extermination.
These “leaders” tend to blame such failures on “human nature” and the “laws of history”, a well-known fallacy, as no natural law dictates that one living being should exterminate another when resources like food and water have historically been abundant since the post-glacial “snowball Earth.”
In reality, these leaders and their families have monopolized the legitimate use of violence, wielding it against the rest of us to avoid engaging in the hard yet productive labor that occupies our daily lives.
However, technological advancements have gradually made the means of mass violence increasingly accessible to more people. This trend will inevitably lead to a monumental collapse of legal and leadership-based governance systems worldwide unless they transition to consensus algorithm-based direct democracy, where the Reaction Feedback loop can operate far more effectively.
This reality is clear to those in the productive class with a basic mathematical understanding, but they do not constitute 99.99% of the population. Thus, fundamental reforms may either be undertaken by the “dear leaders” themselves — effectively signing their own warrants, which is highly unlikely — or the systems will be forced to “reset” themselves, resulting in dramatic consequences for everyone on Earth. As engineers know, the clogged Reaction Feedback loop of our current governance mechanisms inevitably points toward a singular outcome: a sudden breakdown.