{"id":1049,"date":"2013-04-30T18:16:03","date_gmt":"2013-04-30T18:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simoningsmirror.wordpress.com\/?p=1049"},"modified":"2018-10-19T14:28:40","modified_gmt":"2018-10-19T14:28:40","slug":"the-future-of-world-governance-no-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/?p=1049","title":{"rendered":"The future of world governance. No. Really."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Saturday <a href=\"http:\/\/reconcon.govfutures.org\/\">the ReConstitutional Convention<\/a> &#8211; a global experiment in political system design &#8211; brought together diverse groups of social inventors all over the world to imagine and prototype original and alternative architectures for governing.<\/p>\n<p>By pure coincidence, this was also the week I started researching for the 70th anniversary of the discovery of LSD.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s my bit. (<a href=\"http:\/\/reconcon.govfutures.org\/?one_page_portfolio=london-england\">There are lots of others<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Around 6&#8217;20&#8221; I start channeling Timothy Leary; watch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lydianicholas.com\/\">Lydia Nicholas<\/a>&#8216;s face as it begins to dawn on her that this to-camera is going up on YouTube FOR EVER&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>[youtube http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yqNWX-QFZgw]<br \/>\nI&#8217;d like to thank Tobias Revell and Justin Pickard for inviting me along to this creative, playful, exasperating and very rewarding day.<\/p>\n<p>The revolution begins here. (Maybe.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Saturday the ReConstitutional Convention &#8211; a global experiment in political system design &#8211; brought together diverse groups of social inventors all over the world to imagine and prototype original and alternative architectures for governing. By pure coincidence, this was &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/?p=1049\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[618,31,87],"tags":[206,254,296],"class_list":["post-1049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-events","category-scrapbook","tag-justin-pickard","tag-reconcon","tag-tobias-revell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2443,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049\/revisions\/2443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}