“Code is law.” -Lawrence Lessig

Somewhere near the mid 20th century I feel as though today’s modern day global governence hit its peak. Speaking in terms of fruit, it was at this time in history that it was at it’s ripest and most robust. Since then however, the fruit of global governance has become over-ripened. It has soured, rotted, become putrid, noxious, moldy and ,for the many within the global population , undigestable.

The funny thing about Nation States and the governance they pander is that many times they fail. When this happens, there is usually a violence that occurs to keep them from failing. This violence occurs as a ‘free’ society’s ability to continue to fall in line with the State’s disfunctional governance system continues to meet the goading of that system upon its people(s). The violence occurs when the future ceases being a promised hope and starts becoming more of an authoritarian threat. This violence occurs when individuals simply attempt to act upon their sovereignty in the midst of the failing governance system.

The violence occurs somewhere within the midst of a timespan of 1–2 decades, on which I briefly touched on here. At the end of this timespan, a new era of governance (whose inner stages have usually been envisioned and scaffolded during the same time the previous governance system has began to crumble) will typically arise.

The architecture of and vision for this new system has already been underway for some time now, even as our depressed tiring governance systems have continued to fail. If you are reading this particular article, more than likely you have played some small part in this new architecture.

If you subscribe to the theory of “HODLing” , or in Decred’s case — staking, then your belief system both internally and financially consent in the future foundation of what this architecture is constructing.

GOVERNANCE POWER TO THE PEOPLE

So what clues or inclinations can we deduct in defining what a new type of governance system will look like in say 2–3 decades from now?

Its an open question, but if graphed perception and pendulum reasoning becomes our compasses to point us towards a direction, it is assured that we will eventually be looking at several systematic advances and changes taking place. Either that or none at all. A zero sum game if you will. If sovereign advancement does indeed hold to be the victor then possible scenarios to keep in mind include:

Decentralized technologies will give unparalleled powers back to the people.

Onchain governance systems will pose a huge threat to modern politicians, as it could possibly eliminate need for them or their duties.

Developers could hold potentially as much power as lawmakers.

Governance will execute at the speed of software.

Long term value of governance decisions will gain more stock over short term profit. Sustainability will follow.

The threat of the future of governance shouldnt scare us. If anything it should motivate us and give us inspiration to form and build something better.

Decred, as a protocol, is just that.

Remember what we have stated before. If Bitcoin is our hedge against Oligarchies in the real world, then Decred is our hedge against Oligarchies on the blockchain.

It is a new form of decentralized SOV governance.

Driven by people.

Backed by code.

Disclaimer: The preceding is not intended as investment advice but rather blockchain philosophy and monetary theory.

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