Dear Reader
It is the ethos of Mighty Pluck to invent, experiment, build, play, and revise. So when Asa Franz decided to tackle a practical approach to fighting authoritarianism, we were intrigued.
There’s plenty of room for improvement in how democracy is practiced around the world, and Futureland will no doubt produce a better system for governing. But for now, social or market democracies feel like the best method that mankind has found to fairly govern the messiness of human beings.
Democracies are guided by an objective system of rules and regulations that can be replicated and sustained past the life of a dictator or autocrat. Up till now, humans are not immortal; eventually power will be handed to someone else. Therefore, government needs a system that is sustainable beyond the leader, beyond individual personalities and personal abilities.
Even democracies that aren’t functioning too well have a greater likelihood of sustaining stability and growth over oppressive systems of government because democracy allows for critical open debate.
We can only perfect a thing if we are inviting new ideas, regularly testing what works and what doesn’t, and revising accordingly. Look at today’s autocratic governing structures that impose drone-like agreement, punish dissent, and prevent experimentation. They have not proven to yield great innovations or growth. They are not leading in any major sectors, products or services. They are not transforming to meet and benefit from future opportunities. Their economies are stagnant.
It is by being open to ideas, criticism, and revision that societies will arrive at great solutions, innovations, and needed reforms.
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Thank you,
Robin D Rusch
Robin Rusch
