(2017-10-31) Radical Social Entrepreneurs An Introduction To Strongs Law

Michael Strong: Radical Social Entrepreneurs: An Introduction to Strong’s Law: Entrepreneurs take initiative to create new enterprises. Social entrepreneurs do so with the well-being of humanity in mind. Radicals go to the root causes of problems.

Right now there are institutional obstacles to improving governance and culture through entrepreneurial initiative. If we want to accelerate the rate at which we improve the human condition for all, we need to remove these institutional obstacles.

Just as cheap t-shirts and cell phones are now ubiquitous, even among the global poor, if we allow for the entrepreneurial creation of more important human needs we will see the global poor rapidly having access to high quality, low cost, and more customized law, governance, community, housing, education, health care, happiness, and well being.

The prevailing mental model is that while endless technological innovation is possible, the process of endless improvement does not apply to human systems. This belief is incorrect

I. Endless Innovation in Law and Governance

The economist Deirdre McCloskey describes this process as one of “market-tested betterment,”

we have not created an ecosystem within which new jurisdictions can come into existence and, for the best ones, to thrive. In order to accelerate the creation of new experiments in law and governance, we need to allow for a dramatically increased rate of increase in new jurisdictions. Thus Radical Social Entrepreneurs are interested in supporting Startup Societies, LEAP Zones, Startup Cities, Charter Cities (Charter City), Polycentric Law, and various other formulations of similar and related concepts.

II. Endless Innovation in Culture

Government control of education—through public schools or through regulation of charter or private schools—amounts to granting control over the young human beings to all those who produce short-term stimulations.

This argument may be summarized by means of 20 propositions on education and wellness:

existing teacher training does not even begin to ensure consistent habituation. The most consistent habituation faced by K–12 students in government schools today is habituation in passivity and dependence.

Only visionary organizations, designed and built with a commitment to a distinctive vision, can consistently create distinctive cultures that are powerful enough to compete with the teen culture defined by the media.

Cumulatively, the long-term effects of an innovative, competitive market for adolescent well-being may produce cultural consequences as profound as, or more profound than, the long-term effects of technological innovation.

The haphazard cultural inventions that have taken place hitherto, in eastern and western cultures, are analogous to the occasional inventions that characterized western society prior to the nineteenth century. By means of radical school choice combined with a conscious recognition of the power and importance of creating new school cultures, the greatest invention of the twenty-first century may be the invention of new cultural models that continually allow human beings to adapt ever more effectively to a world of ongoing creative destruction while allowing for ever deeper levels of happiness and well-being for people of all races, cultures, classes, and abilities.