Debugging Democracy and GovernmentMay 23th, 2008
A call for bloggers and independent minded individuals to help debug democracy and government.
There are parallels in examining program code and examining society. The code or (laws) a government is constantly revising and the subsequent affects this code has on society, offer a complete system worth a programmer's scrutiny. Certainly society isn't a computer program, because people aren't robots. We don't live in Sim City. However, logic, quantifiable data and pragmitism are often neglected, because politicians use fear and emotion to gain support for their positions. This need not be the case. I've found in studying history and politics, just like solving coding problems, "elegant solutions" have been found for real-world problems. Most have been offered free-of-charge from the private sector.
Very few politicians, work at debugging Government. This is often because they are too focused on writing their own legacy code. For too long, there have been too few debuggers. As a result, bugs run rampant in Government code resulting in errors producing infinite-loops (endless cycling loop lacking a condition for termination)(awarding government benefits for irresponsible behavior, is one obvious infinite-loop) Inner-city women have disincentives to get maried, resulting in people being stuck in the foor-loop of producing children out of wedlock and children destined to a life of being stuck within the same loop as their parents. However, unlike a poorly coded, overly-complex computer program, which would require a complete rewrite; poor legacy code is maintained, offering inefficient new releases and patches. We operate under public education 1.99432. Where teacher unions only wish to work to instill fear in the public to prevent a rewrite of the code for a new society. Many other examples persisit including healthcare, welfare, taxes, economic policy, city planning, infrastructure etc.
The failure of our leaders to debug and perform sufficient upgrades has caused many institutions to become fraught with inefficency and abuse. If this code isn't rewritten, the whole system may crash, or slowly colapse. The United States Constitution is the best societal program architecture ever written. Democracy and free-markets (although imperfect) are the best engine for liberty ever divised. With proper analysis and dubugging of Utah and the United States Government, we can maintain the most efficient engine for prosperity and liberty on earth.
Its the mission of Utah Stories to be a true debugging device for poor government policy, abuse of power (governemnt and corporate collusion) or outdated legacy code resulting in system failure. We actively seek participants to engage in the debugging process the the media has neglected. Please contact us with story leads to help us in this process. click here to e-mail us.
