Hey hubski
Over the past few weeks I have been immersing myself in cybernetic theory, which is both enlightening and surprisingly underdeveloped. However, I feel like it offers us the foundations for a global concept of freedom. Admittedly, this concept is not only dependent on policy, but also on relative scarcity/abundance. Here is the motion:
Cybernetic Freedom: the degree to which a society can be judged "free" is the degree to which an individual has the choice and opportunity to individually explore (or not explore) societal functionality.
This may be not that fundamentally different from versions of freedom proposed in other social sciences, but it offers us the potential to roughly quantify "freedom", and move towards a more objective understanding of what we want from our governments. Thoughts?
If you are interested in the theoretical ground work for cybernetics, check out:
Popular: The Human Use of Human Beings
Academic: Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and Machine