Beyond Red v Blue Social Evolution

Imagine picking up your smartphone one morning to find only two apps: one red one blue. Your smartphone’s operating system now only runs these two apps. You’d probably think it sucks. 
In the USA, we run on DOS (the democratic operating system) with only two apps. Many fetishize voting and elections, but these have become circuses to go with all the bread. We labor under the illusion that we are “free,” but we have outsourced our primary responsibilities to a corrupt cartel in Washington. 
In this episode, Porch and Max discuss the evolution of the Republic, the problems of political power, and the woeful shortcomings of democracy. The fundamental question: can we do better than monopolies on violence?
Two-Party System
Constitutional Government
Separation of Powers - Check & Balances
Founding Father of the United States
Democratic republic
Scapegoating & René Girard
Tristan Harris
Daniel Schmactenberger
The Social Dilemma
The Social Singularity by Max Borders
First past the post voting
American civil religion
Campaign finance reform in the United States
Tammany Hall
Republic, Lost by Lawrence Lessig
United States presidential primary
Lobbying and special interests
Parliamentary system
Westphalian sovereignty
City-states
Settled agriculture and the Neolithic Revolution
James C. Scott
Theories on the origins of the state
James Madison
Thomas Hobbes: Moral and Political Philosophy
Philosopher King
Majoritarian democracy and majority rule
Liberal democracy
John Rawls and reasonable pluralism
Freedom of religion
Ninth Amendment to the US Constitution
Tenth Amendment to the US Constitution
George Mason and Anti-Federalism
Consent of the governed
Social contract theory
Ward republic
Territorial expansion of the US
Jane Jacobs and the Monstrous Hybrid
Bootleggers and Baptists
G.K. Chesterton and Chesterton’s Fence
Traditionalist conservatism
Progressivism
Political spectrum models - Nolan chart
The consistency of libertarianism
Glenn Greenwald
Joe Rogan
Mohair
Rational ignorance & rational irrationality
Path dependency
Political polarization and radicalization
Tribalism and groupthink
States rights
Horeshoe theory
Emergency powers
9/11 attacks
Mass surveillance
2021 US Capitol Attack
Domestic terrorism
Cognitive bias
Approval voting
Ranked-choice voting
Blockchain, cryptocurrencies, and smart contracts
On-chain Governance
Holacracy
Liquid democracy
Quadratic voting
Glen Weyl
Vatalik Buterin
Janeček method
Collective action problem
Decentralized autonomous organization
Alex Tabarrok’s Dominant Assurance Contract
Vote trading
Sociality
Mutual organization
Non-zero sum games
Organizational mission
Corporatist economics and Fascism
Minarchism
Code forking
Open-source software and Linux
Network effect
Antifragility from Taleb
Federalism and Subsidiarity
Availability cascade
Localism
Polyarchy, polycentricity, and panarchy
Circle of concern and circle of influence