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Necessary condition for a satisfactory social organization

The necessary condition is: supervise the decision-making process.

Cette condition est la conséquence de la découverte de ce qu'est - sur des bases scientifiques - la nature humaine, et donc de ses limites.
By supervision, we mean two things:

Corollary

Current organizations, democracy, autocracy, direct democracy, which govern 'who decides', and not 'how we decide' cannot function satisfactorily. In this sense, the ideal of enlightenment is just as unrealistic and dangerous as communism.

Remarks

Voting is only one modality of the decision-making process, not a framework.

Today when someone thinks or wishes for political reform, they generally remain within the confines of 'who decides'. His preference may go to the providential man (the enlightened dictator), parliamentarism (of representatives), participatory democracy (all citizens directly), etc. We show on this site that this is an illusion. Only a profound reform of 'how we decide' can make it possible to obtain a satisfactory social organization in the modern era, that is to say post technological revolution.

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See 'How to make decisions consistent with the general interest?' which deals with a related subject.

View the questions:
Why do humans reason massively wrong?
What conditions must be met to produce serious reasoning?
How to make decisions consistent with the general interest?
Why is the philosophy of enlightenment a dangerous myth?
What is the modern political method?

Then refer to the section 'The conditions for a reliable decision-making process' in chapter 7 from the book From capital to reason, and finally to all second part of the book for the presentation of a satisfactory social organization.