Category: Politics, Power, and Governance

smart question.
In simple terms the level of technology determines the means by which to measure the behavior of citizenss. Relgion (reputation), Law (reputation), Credit (reputation), and unfortunately Social Scores (reputation), all increase the resolution of judgement of an individual and either increase (rarely) or decrease (often) his or her opportunities, thus imposing a cost on deviation from the traditions, norms, rules, and laws.
I would suggest a thought for you to consider, that all technology either increases the amount of available energy, decreases the cost of available energy, or decreases the cost of and therefore reduces time and space, as well as the information recording and transport in that time and space.
The most important property of a polity is rule of law and the deviation from natural law in that rule of law. For that reason one must ‘grow’ a polity starting with a military, then a judiciary, then a government, then a market, and only then can one have participatory government where we battle for preference of commons.

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