Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Democracy was born from struggle, hardship, and sacrifice: the assurance of the Freedom and Equality of each human being was a revolutionary form of government. The digitalized world of the computer is also a revolution. Constitutional government is Triadic and insures the freedom and equality of each and every individual. Up to now, we have struggled with political language to clearly delineate the parameters of a true democracy. Needless to add, that the struggle still persists. The linguistic generalities of policy that apply to the governing process has not met with much success. Governing takes place within a social split into antagonistic political Parties that push-pull in different directions. Of course, much has been accomplished, but the complete assurances in the Constitution that refer to a government "for the people" still lacks direction. Economic principles and corporations have become too powerful. They have usurped democractic principles. But, the digital revolution has opened a means to combat the problematics of political language and the Linguistic Turn. The Triadic form of government places emphasis on the Bottom, where all "the people" reside. "We The people" is not a generalized abstraction that lacks bone and blood; the Constitutional phrase refers to each and every individual alluded to within the phrase, as a real, individual, human being. If we begin to refer to the social as Number, we can learn to 'include' each individual in a real way because every number counts in an equation. There are no 'general' human beings; they're individual and they're real. This fact immediately distinguishes them from the legal fiction(corporations). Corporations may be called "persons", but they don't bleed. The requirement that policy and law must become 'more algorithmic', can begin to include each and every individual within the class of the applicable policy or law. In this manner the 'digital' revolution can assist the 'democratic' revolution. In government, nothing is more important than the Freedom and Equality of each, real individual. In the digital revolution nothing is more important than quantification. The bottom of 'governing' must become quantified.

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