Provocazioni molto interessanti. IMHO l'autore sottovaluta l'età media della popolazione rappresentata e decenni di propaganda individualista fra le cause della miopia politica odierna (che peraltro non va generalizzata, sebbene sia evidentemente maggioritaria). Tuttavia la deriva totalitaria globale è effettivamente dietro l'angolo. Abbiamo bisogno di nuove forme di Democrazia? Forme di Democrazia capaci di scalare a livello globale (possibilmente in modo pacifico)? E l'Informatica che ora appartiene al dominio del problema, potrebbe fornire (parte del)la soluzione? E come, se rimane una conoscenza esoterica? O magari abbiamo solo bisogno di disarmare il Capitalismo? Di privare di qualsiasi Potere Politico il Capitale? http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190318-can-we-reinvent-democracy-for-the-l... It’s common to claim that today’s short-termism is simply a product of social media and other digital technologies that have ratcheted up the pace of political life. But the fixation on the now has far deeper roots. One problem is the electoral cycle, an inherent design flaw of democratic systems that produces short political time horizons. Politicians might offer enticing tax breaks to woo voters at the next electoral contest, while ignoring long-term issues out of which they can make little immediate political capital, such as dealing with ecological breakdown, pension reform or investing in early childhood education. Back in the 1970s, this form of myopic policy-making was dubbed the “political business cycle”. Add to this the ability of special interest groups – especially corporations – to use the political system to secure near-term benefits for themselves while passing the longer-term costs onto the rest of society. Whether through the funding of electoral campaigns or big-budget lobbying, the corporate hacking of politics is a global phenomenon that pushes long-term policy making off the agenda. [...] The time has come to face an inconvenient reality: that modern democracy – especially in wealthy countries – has enabled us to colonise the future. We treat the future like a distant colonial outpost devoid of people, where we can freely dump ecological degradation, technological risk, nuclear waste and public debt, and that we feel at liberty to plunder as we please. [...] Some suggest that democracy is so fundamentally short-sighted that we might be better off with “benign dictators”, who can take the long view on the multiple crises facing humanity on behalf of us all. [...] A surprisingly large number of heads were nodding in the audience, but mine was not amongst them. [...] A more fundamental point is that there may be ways to reinvent representative democracy to overcome its current bias towards the here and now. In fact, several countries have already embarked on pioneering experiments to empower the citizens of the future. [...] We are in the midst of an historic political shift. It is clear that a movement for the rights and interests of future generations is beginning to emerge on a global scale, and is set to gain momentum over coming decades as the twin threats of ecological collapse and technological risk loom ever larger. The dream of a benign dictator is not the only option to deal with our long-term crises. Democracy has taken many forms and been reinvented many times, from the direct democracy of the Ancient Greeks to the rise of representative democracy in the 18th Century. The next democratic revolution – one that empowers future generations and decolonises the future – may well be on the political horizon.