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* Sales of self-help books
Think big, then think bigger.


= History and Philosophy =
The urgent necessity of collaboration. Problems scaling faster than our ability to solve them.


The [[wikipedia:Liberal democracy#Origins|Wikipedia article on liberal democracy]] gives a good overview of how modern democracies evolved.
Continuous improvement. Improving at improvement.


Daniel Ziblatt [http://harvardmagazine.com/2017/05/making-liberal-democracies posits] that the factional strength of a country's elites determines the survival of democracy, not a rise in living standards or an uprising of the working or middle class.
Collective intelligence = ability to learn and adapt.


= Voting =
Dynamic Knowledge Repository. Specifically, role of artifact / "knowledge product."


Who shows up to vote?
Doing good as a life goal.


* [https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/17/upshot/black-turnout-in-1964-and-beyond.html "Black Turnout in 1964, and Beyond."] ''New York Times''. October 16, 2014.
Just because it's obvious doesn't mean you're doing it. Deceptive simplicity of Doug's ideas. The challenge is in the doing.
* [http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/05/12/black-voter-turnout-fell-in-2016-even-as-a-record-number-of-americans-cast-ballots/ "Black voter turnout fell in 2016, even as a record number of Americans cast ballots."] Pew Research. May 12, 2017.
* [http://www.electproject.org/home/voter-turnout/demographics Voter Turnout Demographics]


How do votes translate to decisions?
Bicycle as metaphor for performance. Expert-oriented tools. Co-evolution.


Requires [[diversity]] and [[education]].
Depression. How you evaluate success. Emotional honesty. Rubber band blog post.
 
Ka-Ping Yee's [http://zesty.ca/voting/sim/ voting simulation visualizations].
 
= U.S. Population / Demographic Shifts =
 
== Religion ==
 
According to Pew Research<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_the_United_States</ref>:
 
* Evangelical Protestant — 25.4%
* Mainline Protestant — 14.7%
* Black church — 6.5%
* Catholic — 20.8%
 
According to Gallup, 2014 "Beliefs and Values" survey suggested that 42 percent of Americans are creationists, 31 percent are theistic evolutionists, and 19 percent are atheistic evolutionists.<ref>http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/11/you-cant-educate-people-into-believing-in-evolution/382983/</ref>
 
== Age ==
 
[https://www.axios.com/when-children-become-scarce-birth-rates-falling-92f11c1e-a26a-4635-8885-9eab1ffd182e.html When children become scarce]
 
= Regional Inequality =
 
[[Cities]]
 
Gerrymandering
 
= Foreign Policy =
 
Transformational versus transactional diplomacy
 
= Activism =
 
* [https://equalcitizens.us/ Equal Citizens]. Founded by Lawrence Lessig.
 
= References =
 
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Revision as of 20:52, 30 December 2016

Think big, then think bigger.

The urgent necessity of collaboration. Problems scaling faster than our ability to solve them.

Continuous improvement. Improving at improvement.

Collective intelligence = ability to learn and adapt.

Dynamic Knowledge Repository. Specifically, role of artifact / "knowledge product."

Doing good as a life goal.

Just because it's obvious doesn't mean you're doing it. Deceptive simplicity of Doug's ideas. The challenge is in the doing.

Bicycle as metaphor for performance. Expert-oriented tools. Co-evolution.

Depression. How you evaluate success. Emotional honesty. Rubber band blog post.