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(and more normally the acquiescence) of the people. It is Humanity that gives the State its existence, it is Humanity that acknowledges the State its powers, and it is Humanity that can discern whether the State has failed or succeeded. And ultimately, since the State is just our chosen concept, we can by the will of Humanity’s consensus – also simply will the State away.
Therefore, it is to that fundament, humanity in its diversity, in its unformed condition, that we, the people, can look to justice. And a global, informed consensus facilitated not trammelled, by either Artificial intelligence or deep learning algorithms will become the arbiter of our justice; disintermediating the inefficiency of our antiquated judicial systems and setting us free of the inherent corruption and jeopardy of a system of Judge qua God.
Enforcement will come through community and share activism against the great countries, through consumer sanctions not selected by the state but by us as great groups of people, by the withdrawal of our common support. These have long been the tactics
of collective groups and are highly effective. We can also force our still existing State apparatus to enforce against the wrongdoers, the success of petitioning has shown this. Gandhi was not a State, yet he brought down an Empire.
The big issue is how do we avoid mob rule – or
the primitive excesses of human passion that can
get stirred by demagogic advocacy and lead to
the dehumanization of the liberties of others in
the spurious pursuit of ‘the greater good.’ But this downward route is a road blocked off and impossible in the face of Natural Justice, for Natural Justice essentially boils down to the Golden Rule – ‘Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.’ The Golden Rule functions as a procedural standard for
judging the moral legitimacy of courses of conduct and as the only constitution does not harbour the wind of ill-will. Nor can it be curtailed; injustice to one of us, is an injustice to all of us.
Note to that the Golden Rule is a positive rule, it is
not of the ‘Thou Shalt not...’ patriarchal variety that has hitherto dominated the global legal systems. A positive statement that requires our mutual action propagates the evolutionary rather than the status quo. It takes us to our better selves.
Because Natural Justice as defined by the Golden Rule is language based, structured by words commonly defined, it is inherently a decentralized infrastructure. It does not need codification by a centralized authority. Even if all the dictionaries in the world were erased, the meaning would still be clear and two strangers could meet and they would still largely agree upon what the other was trying to say. This form of decentralization is observable whether approached from a social, political or logical perspective.
Decentralization is important because it resists ‘hijacking’ by small interest groups or elites, which
are inclined to act in support of their own, often short-term needs, to the disbenefit of humanity
and the universal ecosystem. It achieves this by exponentially increasing and randomizing the number of functional nodes where key decision-making activity occurs. This makes both hacking and collusion to defeat the purpose of the autonomous organization uneconomical and physically harder to make happen. A by-product of this decentralization is that like biodiverse systems, extinction becomes more difficult. It is easier to cut of the head of a snake than a hydra’s heads, and harder still a generation of snakes hidden in a jungle. A by-product of the internet is that it gives the formerly silenced a voice.
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