Blueprint for a Modern Society: Redesigning Democracy, Novel Solutions for Consolidation of Power in

Human society is amazingly complex. It represents the most complex social structure on the planet. Throughout history, there have been many forms of societal management and control. Kings, emperors, dictators, senates, republics, communes, democracies, etc.--all have tools, ideas, and methods of managing society. Such writings as Machiavelli's The Prince, Mao's Little Red Book, Marx and Engles's Communist Manifesto, Thoreau's Walden, and Jefferson's Declaration of Independence, just to name a few, have guided leaders and citizens navigating the mind-boggling maze of managing a society. A Blueprint for a Modern Society presents some novel ideas and the methods of implementing them for societal management. Based largely on fundamental human psychology, it attempts to address some of the most glaring problems plaguing many political and legal systems as we move into the second quarter of the twenty-first century and our society evolves into the information age.