In this thoughtprovoking episode, John Vervaeke and Jordan Hall explore the future of governance, diving into various domains and communities grappling with this complex issue. They discuss the emergence of Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs), political polarization, planetary scale governance, and the role of literacy and technology in shaping governance. The pair also introduce conceptual frameworks and emphasize the importance of enhancing distributed cognition, the role of the juridical function, and prophetic capacity in effective governance.

Timecodes:
00:19 Introduction of the governance discussion
02:50 Emergence of DAOs
03:37 Increasing political polarization
05:10 Planetary scale governance
09:57 Two conceptual frameworks
10:48 Impact of literacy on governance
11:27 The Gutenberg press and its effects
12:52 Constitutions and their influence
14:26 Digital era's impact on governance
15:38 Consequences of the shift to literacy
19:55 Control systems in agriculture
21:21 Kuhn and Tainter's approaches to complex systems
22:25 Limits of complicated society
22:47 State and market dichotomy
26:21 Rediscovering complex systems
30:06 Complicated vs. complex systems in governance
31:53 Limitations of contracts, laws, and rules
36:47 The role of technology in governance
40:02 Technology's role in future governance
41:13 The coming great economic transition
42:35 Displacement of farmers analogy
44:37 Focus on competence in governance
50:41 Incoherent nature of traditional sovereignty
52:22 Sovereignty as capacity to make effective choices
54:06 Surfing as a metaphor for navigating complexity