NotEvenNothing

This is something I struggle with in writing what amounts to a long argument in discrete chunks. I was already 1000 words over my limit, and had to find an artificial stopping place. But partly where this is headed is the thesis that our systems of government are not very similar to ones that would be designed from scratch for survival as an individual intelligence apparatus, and that by comparing the theory to practice we can (possibly) improve them. The flip side of i is that if we aren't going to be serious about survival, we should create bureaucracies and economies so that they fail gracefully. Or else we should adopt an evolutionary, rather than singular, strategy: colonize other planets.