This project is something that’s been on my mind for a while now, and I’m hoping others exist who are interested in helping. Unfortunately, a blog isn’t exactly the best place to host a discussion-oriented collaborative project like that. I created an X community called “Mars Constitution” to facilitate it, although I don’t know how many people on X are interested in that sort of thing either (so far, I’m still the only member of the community). I named my draft optimal constitution the “Mars Constitution” because I figure that’s humanity’s next big chance to establish a government from scratch.
Unfortunately, X may not be the bastion of free speech that Elon Musk advertised it to be when he bought Twitter, which turns a lot of people off to X, but it’s also still the biggest forum for this sort of thing. Bluesky is way smaller. Reddit might work. I just don’t want to manage this sort of thing in multiple places, so it’s on X for now, and that’s where I’ll be sharing new ideas and engaging in any discussion. Annoyingly, the draft constitution is too long to be a single X post, and it turns out I can’t pin more than one post to the top of the community, so I think I’m stuck keeping the updated draft here on my blog and pinning a link to it on the community.
This is intended to be a slow-simmering project, so I don’t expect to make revisions very frequently, but I’ll at least update the “last revised” line each time I make a change.
And with that explanation out of the way, here’s one request. If you know anyone who is interested in thinking about the philosophy of big-picture government design (notably, this is very different than being “interested in politics”), send them my way.
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