Governance can be viewed through the lens of gravitropic topolgies along the dimension of societal power. Institutions may have the power to govern certain aspects of society, and the points at which an institution exercices its power are energetically dense. Those dense regions of energy represent the gravitational centers of the institution’s power distribution. From those centers of gravity does then entropy emerge, causing more or less significant energy fluctuations between interacting gravity centers, based on their respective influence. As entropy evolves the system further through space and time, many gravitropic dimensions and potentially many gravitropic topoligies may affect one another through their own respective centers of gravity. From there we can see very complex behaviours emerge based on the multi dimensional pushing and pulling produced by all the involved gravitropic forces. The question for institutions will always be, whether they can maintain their own balance of power equilibrium, and which other dimensions may cause societal power to shift once a gravitational threshold was reached.
Questions
One major challenge for all societies has always been the fact that the institutions guiding our lives cannot be easily upgraded. We are now living in the age of technology, and software is being upgraded everywhere all the time. So far the fact that institutions cannot easily change has been beneficial where those institutions represented a net positive for society. But technology advances, the world around us changes, and the challenges of tomorrow become increasingly complex. The way in which we coordinate on a national and global level is already outdated and the need for credibly neutral governance substrates is greater than ever. Because one fact about life will always be true. What can be captured, will be captured.
Which mechanisms are known to generally minimize capture?
Given there do mechanisms exist already that can provably show how various forms of corruption may be minimized, we should lean into those approaches and study their common ground across disciplines.