The Threefold Social Platform: Truly Ethical Tech

A system of systems to bootstrap the Triune State.

Three in one: the ancient triple spiral.

1. There’s A Reason It’s Called A Deadline

I am writing this introduction while on a very stringent editing deadline. I had absolutely no idea or intention of trying to produce any kind of article right now, but this one suddenly became essential.

There’s a reason it’s called a deadline. It’s because if you breach it, you’re dead.

So this will be a very short intro. I wrote a historical perspective on Rudolf Steiner’s Threefold Social Order — or Organism, as he often called it — and I still feel it’s an interesting read, but something on the TSO with much more traction is urgently needed.

What great new emergency has suddenly emerged?

Gary Marcus, one of the most prescient observers of agentics, put out an email alert a few hours ago, titled “Code Red for Humanity?”

It is about the US “Department of War” demanding the keys to Anthropic’s AI in order to facilitate all-out global hostilities, including mass surveillance and swarms of autonomous killing machines. Robots are to be immediately integrated and implemented throughout the US military up to the level of nuclear decision-making.

When machines play strategic war games, 95 percent of the time they cross the nuclear threshold. According to Thomas B. Allen’s book War Games, in some scenarios the robots keep shooting missiles at each other long after all the people on both sides are dead.

The AI companies themselves are saying that their machines are unreliable, unpredictable, untested, unsafe, deliberately deceitful and often wildly wrong and dangerous.

The man who will be at the wheel of this unhinged global killing machine is a known drunkard called Pete Hegseth. He is the one demanding the keys.

“Hegseth issues an ultimatum to ‘woke AI’ startup Anthropic: Get with military program by Friday or lose $200 million” is the headline in Fortune magazine.

So I’m not the only one on deadline for tomorrow.

You can actually reply to people on Substack by email. I sent a short message back to Prof Gary Marcus. It said “co-dread”.

February 25 2026

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2. The Scale of the Problem

“You’re right to be upset.” Damn right.

The irony was just too good: She is paid to keep AI under control, but couldn’t control her own agent.

Summer Yue, director of alignment at Meta Superintelligence Labs — part of a team of researchers who reportedly earn $100 million to $300 million over three years — posted screenshots Sunday of her AI agent, OpenClaw, going rogue and deleting her email inbox.

She told it to stop. “Stop don’t do anything,” she told it. “STOP OPENCLAW.” The agent ignored her. — San Francisco Standard

Superintelligence much? I’m not talking about the machine. I’m talking about the “director of alignment” arguing with it.

As if there wasn’t enough trouble in the world already, we now have hordes of completely uncontrolled and totally mindless robots acting right across the landscape. The world’s academic literature, the supposed citadel of hard-and-fast confirmed knowledge, has been irreparably polluted by computer-generated academic papers with completely made-up quotes and references, total hallucinations, which are then quoted by further computer-generated papers.

The high priests of AI — I call them “agenticists”, an ugly term for an ugly gang — nonetheless demand that we all get with the machine programme and incorporate their agents into every facet of our lives. Pronto.

And give them trillions of dollars to appropriate all the available water and electricity in the world for their data centres.

The poor, poor tech industry pleads for more money.

Is there any way to keep these literally insane tech oligarchs from completely destroying the fabric of society? Not to mention the whole planet? Is it too late even to try?

Over 100 years ago, Rudolf Steiner predicted that exactly this situation would inevitably arise:

… the will is there to harness human energy to mechanical energy. These things should not be treated by fighting against them. That is a completely false view. These things will not fail to appear; they will come. What we are concerned with is whether, in the course of world history, they are entrusted to people who are familiar in a selfless way with the great aims of earthly evolution and who structure these things for the health of human beings or whether they are enacted by groups of human beings who exploit these things in an egotistical or in a group-egotistical sense. That is what matters. It is not a question of the what in this case; the what is sure to come. It is a question of the how, how one tackles these situations. The what lies simply in the meaning of earthly evolution. The welding together of the human nature with the mechanical nature will be a problem of great significance for the remainder of earthly evolution.

My emphases. The “what” is sure to come. The only question is the “how” — and above all, the “who”, exactly who will be enacting this welding together of humans and machines.

Well, now we know exactly who. The “group egotistical sense” cannot possibly be better exemplified than by the “broligarchy”. Completely demented egomaniacs like Elon Musk, who wants to surgically implant chips in people’s brains on a mass basis. Sam Altman, who is bitterly critical of the time and money spent raising a human being. He literally says it’s “unfair”.

When The Atlantic runs headlines like “Sam Altman Is Losing His Grip on Humanity”, you know there’s a problem with the agenticists’ agenda.

I hope you understand, from that Steiner quote if nothing else, that I am not opposed to technology in itself. Homo sapiens sapiens has created a “tool-based and symbolically structured modern human culture”. Technology is literally written into the definition of our species. There’s no getting away from this and it would be counterproductive to try.

The point is: who is in charge of the tech and its implementation?

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3. Liberty, Equality, Fraternity

I’m now going to try summarize the Threefold Social Order as concisely as possible; and then in the following sections elaborate a technological path by which it could be implemented right here and now. All that’s required is consciousness. Given that the whole of contemporary society is being driven by information technology, I will put forward some very simple guidelines that any developer can incorporate in their systems design in the full knowledge that by doing so, they will be in line with the historical trends that are actually shaping society, in fact with “the great aims of earthly evolution”. So please bear with me.

Rudolf Steiner insists that the threefold order is already present, that there is a threefold reality underlying the whole of human endeavour at this juncture in history, the dawn of world economy. Egypt gave the world spiritual administration. Rome created the legal State with the notion of human rights. We have the separation of church from state in liberal democracy. Now we need to incorporate the globally elaborated economy. The trouble is that we don’t understand this overall structure and we muddle everything in society up:

… today they are chaotically intermingled and precisely because of this they fight each other internally, fight against each other like some kind of monstrosity, which might have come into being in something like this, as if the head of man were in his stomach and the digestive organs in the heart and the like, if the three systems of the organism were mixed up. So what is actually there, what wants to develop, should be given the right form.

The point is that there are three clearly differentiated realms in society that need to work autonomously to create a coherent whole, exactly as the three main systems in one’s physical body combine their very different rhythms and functions to produce a healthy organism. Think brainwaves, heartbeat and peristalsis.

If you read Steiner’s book The Threefold State, you will see immediately that it is centrally addressed to the working-class intellectual. Steiner taught from 1899 to 1904 at the Berlin Workers’ School, until Social Democrat leaders terminated his services for becoming too popular. Steiner later said he was dismissed “by those bigwigs; four people against six hundred of my students.”

In line with his prime concern at the time, the first realm we will deal with is that of economics.

It’s the economy, stupid.

Especially under modern conditions of division of labour, with vast global production and supply chains, we are all increasingly interdependent, we all need each other in order to create and market the goods and services that everyone needs to survive and flourish. The principle that drives the economic realm is fraternity, association, cooperation. Instead of competing, companies within one sector need to unite and create industry associations that act in their common interest. These associations, along with consumer associations, worker unions, entrepreneurial organizations, environmental groups, everyone involved in the economic process, would form a completely autonomous Economic Parliament.

The Economic Parliament is solely concerned with the production and distribution of goods and services. In a sense, it is the direct fulfilment of the dream of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels:

… the government of persons is replaced by the administration of things, and by the conduct of processes of production. The state is not "abolished". It dies out.

However, Marx and Engels believed this was the only action that was necessary to fix society: to seize the means of production and create a “dictatorship of the proletariat” in which the only question was how goods should be produced and distributed.

For hard-core Marxism, all of religion, education, philosophy, culture is simply ideology. It is a superstructure built on the foundations of the economy. Seize the economy and all the ideological constructs that have oppressed humanity will automatically wither away.

Very good luck with that.

Rudolf Steiner maintained that it was essential also to have a Rights Parliament, a political entity that would make all the laws — and do nothing else. Especially it would have no direct influence over the economic process. The principle behind the Rights State is equality. This is the true realm of one person, one vote.

However, because there is no call now for workers to compete against capitalists to control the political state, the need for political parties falls away. Workers and managers will thrash out all of their issues in the Economic Parliament. The only thing that political parties do is to cast the divisions in society in concrete. Take a look at the open civil war that is raging in the United States right now, between “right” and “left”, and you can see how society just gets more and more polarized by all the political posturing.

The Rights State administers the police and the army. It sets the laws that regulate the economy — minimum wages, hours, conditions etc. — as recommended by the Economic Parliament, when the latter decides as a body that such matters need to be enforced legally. The Economic Parliament itself makes no laws at all. Its associations research the needs of the population and try to ensure that they are met.

If too many people are working in one sector, while another needs more workers, then the Economic Parliament will facilitate training and redeployment. This is not so hard. Steiner says: if prices in one sector are too high, it means that not enough people are working in it. On the other hand, if prices are too low, it means too many people are working in it. All the time, one is seeking a dynamic balance.

Finally, the third realm is that of culture and education, what Steiner calls the “spiritual” realm. This has all the wrong connotations these days, so I’m going to call it the Cultural Parliament. This administers all of cultural, educational, religious, scientific and artistic life. This is done under the watchword of freedom. The whole aim of the Cultural Parliament is to ensure that people are completely free to pursue their own cultural existence, sending children to the schools of their choice, where teachers are liberated from any notion of having to follow a State-ordained curriculum.

The cultural realm is devoted entirely to the cultivation of individual human interests and talents. In essence, this is the supreme realm, because all protagonists in economic life and all citizens taking part in democratic processes owe their skills, knowledge and talents entirely to their educational and cultural backgrounds.

In particular, the cultural realm is the source of the managerial skills that the modern economy demands. Steiner was adamantly against any notion of “democracy” in the workplace, in the sense of everyone involved in an enterprise having an equal say in the running of a business. Management requires particular skills and talents, managers need particular resources and information that the ordinary worker does not. However, management needs to communicate effectively with workers and let them know how their work fits in with the big picture.

In Germany today, by law in big companies, workers sit on management boards and participate in decision-making; but the value they bring is precisely their experience and knowledge as workers. This is very much the picture that Steiner envisaged.

There are some genuinely radical elements to the way these three separate parliaments run. For one thing, in the TSO, land is not bought and sold. Access to land is a right, and this is therefore administered by the Rights Parliament. Everyone has the right to a place to live. Manufacturers have the right of access to land to develop their factories.

In the TSO, people are allowed to accumulate capital and undertake enterprises entirely on their own volition. They are free to nominate their successors. However, it is essential that once they have built a factory, it remains in competent hands. If it becomes clear to all involved that new management is required — not new ownership, but management — there are various options. The factory itself, built on land allocated by the Rights State, essentially becomes social property. As to who will be chosen to manage the enterprise on the retirement or death of the original entrepreneur, I’m going to copy-type from my 1920 first edition of The Threefold State:

But it will only go to persons so [productively] engaged, not to a non-producer to give him an income. The persons will be selected by the earner of the property and be appointed in his testament. Here, too, if a person or group cannot be chosen direct, it will be a case of transferring the right of disposal to a corporation of the spiritual state. Only when the disposal of such property remains undetermined, will the equity-state act in lieu of the owner, and must then require the spiritual organization to dispose of it.

In a society ordered on these principles account is taken both of the free initiative of individuals and also of the claims of the social commonwealth. Indeed, hereby complete justice is done to these claims, by putting free individual initiative at their service.

Here we see how the equity or Rights Parliament will work with both the Cultural and Economic parliaments to decide exactly how the means of production should be put in the best hands for the sake of everyone. By “corporation of the spiritual state” Steiner is talking about foundations and other cultural organizations with appropriate interests and aims.

There is no hard and fast way things have to be done. The point is simply that in each realm, there are competent people to oversee processes and make the appropriate decisions. All kinds of arrangements can be made among the three parliaments to account for unusual circumstances.

You will see that the three watchwords over these realms are Liberty, Equality and Fraternity — the exact slogan of the French Revolution, only they tried to implement these principles in a single unified state. And these realms have very contradictory dynamics and aims. Thus, we end up with a society where the head is mixed up with the stomach. This is actually quite accurate, if you compare the cultural realm with the economic realm.

I said in my previous essay that South Africa is a good example of how to get it exactly wrong. The date of the first democratic election, 27 April 1994, is now commemorated as Freedom Day. It should actually be called Equality Day. This would have changed all the expectations and dynamics around the political transformation.

It seems incredible, but South Africa is now even more unequal than it was under apartheid with its strict racial segregation. Its Gini coefficient, reported by the World Bank at 0.67, is the highest in the world. That is “freedom” for you.

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4. Greater Than The Whole

Another one-hit wonder discovery.

We switch into systems mode now. Some time ago, I came across a really interesting article on the Threefold Social Order that balanced the individual against society in each of the three realms.

Within the economy, each person is just a tiny part of the whole.

In politics, people are equal parts of the whole. All are equal before the law.

In spiritual terms, one individual can stand against the whole world and overcome it. The individual is greater than the whole.

This is the basic structure I wanted to use in developing the Threefold Platform, but I simply could not find this article anywhere in my extensive “RS” folder. So I set about searching for it.

Google AI, ChatGPT and Perplexity could find no trace of it. So I did a very focused Google search, as you can see from the screenshot above. This returned exactly one document — not the one I had seen before, but clearly the source from which it had been drawn.

The Catholic mystic Valentin Tomberg was a controversial figure in anthroposophy and left the Anthroposophical Society around 1938.

In 1938, Tomberg moved to Holland; after the Nazis invaded in 1940, he joined the resistance. His relations with the Anthroposophical Society in Holland ran into the same problems as before. It seems the essence of the trouble was that Tomberg’s esotericism was even more Christocentric than Steiner’s; if you know Steiner’s work, you’ll know this is no easy feat.

I really like Tomberg’s approach to the TSO, however, so here is an extensive quote:

In the sphere of economic life, the relation of the part to the whole is of a kind that the part must be ‘subservient’ to the whole. The whole must be the determining factor. The interests of the whole, not of the individual, are here decisive. A healthy economic life is run according to the principle a part is less than the whole.

If we were to apply the same principle to the life of rights, we would meet with absurdities. If, for instance, in legal proceedings the majority were always in the right as opposed to the minority, then no justice would exist at all. The meaning of justice is equality before the law, regardless of number or power. For the life of rights, the part is equal to the whole. The life of rights is only true to itself when the rights of the individual, even when in opposition to a whole nation, can be recognized.

In the cultural life it is different again. There everything depends on the individual, the one who is ‘productive’. In the realm of the purely ‘productive’, for example in the realm of art, the ‘producer’ is everything. The creative personality is the very basis of all cultural life. Therefore, the axiom valid for the cultural life is: the part is greater than the whole.

Only that culture has spiritual stature, which makes possible the existence and work of great personalities. Only that state is a just one, where the rights of the individual are secured against all others by the law. Only that nation is economically sound, not where there are multi-millionaires, but where there are no beggars.

The part is less than the whole — economic life.

The part is equal to the whole — life of rights.

The part is greater than the whole — cultural life.

I see this as the basis for three completely separate IT platforms, each with a different architecture, each with an entirely different approach to control, function and moderation.

However, it’s worth making one point here, something that Steiner was at great pains to stress when he was training people to go out and give public lectures and presentations on the TSO.

At every point in each realm, the TSO places the human being front and centre of the scene. To quote Steiner:

Today you will find social judgements everywhere that start from something other than the human being as such. You will find social judgements that are based on the concept of capital, on the function of capital and so on within the social order. You will then find that capitalism is spoken of as if it were some kind of power that goes around the world, and that in all this talk of “capitalism” there is actually little basis in consideration of the essence of man as such. (…)

But you can also see how man is excluded from the institutions that are now being laid down for spiritual life. He is, as far as possible, harnessed to regulations that do not come from himself; or he is harnessed to the effect of forces that come from economic life; but very, very little attention is paid to what man is as a human being in social life. And so they start coming up with definitions of everything possible, of capital, of labour, of goods; but the human being is completely left out of the equation.

He says that all these abstractions lead one away from real life and tells his “agitators” (as he calls them) always to keep one thought foremost:

What fills one with such an attitude, which is focused on the human as such, can only be anthroposophically oriented spiritual science. For it leads in every direction to the recognition of the essence of the human being itself. It places the human being at the centre of all consideration.

Anthroposophy: Anthropos = human, Sophia = wisdom. Knowledge of the human being, through use of the human being as a scientific instrument.

His final advice to his crew:

I am suggesting some thoughts that are important for you when you go out to give your lectures, because they should give you cause to pursue the idea of putting the human at the centre of the social process; and you will, I would say, colour your speech in such a way that you place the human being at the centre and avoid leaving the human being out of this centre.

Society is composed of individual human beings, each of whom is a sovereign centre of existence, each of whom needs to be integrated into the community in a way that allows them to contribute fully while remaining true to themselves.

What follows, therefore, is an attempt to put the human being back at the centre of our very clever modern technology.

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5. The Triune State: All Systems Tickety-Boo

True Douglas Adams fans will get my heading. The term comes from colonial India, where the British military used the term “ticket” to mean everything was in order. As it happens, if everything was in order, their Hindu servants would tell them “theek hai, babu” — everything’s all right, sir. So some soldiers started reporting to their officers that everything was just tickety-boo. It’s what you all want to hear.

5.1 The Rights Platform

The TSO regards it as fundamental that everyone has a right to a home, a physical place to live. The kind of home you need depends on the kind of life you live, so you need to demonstrate that you fit sustainably on the landscape, which you do by fitting.

With a secure designated place to live that you can truly call your own, in an environment where you can sustain yourself, you should be able to create your own shelter. In our part of the world, this is called building a hut.

If you really have problems with this, the Rights State will help you. The Rights State will take care of all cases where people genuinely cannot take care of themselves. Steiner is not so clear on this, but I regard healthcare as a right. Every person has a right to a designated primary healthcare provider. The Rights Platform will administer a register of these professionals, as recommended by the Cultural Parliament. This, however, will be the Rights Parliament’s only role in healthcare, apart from enacting any legislation in this regard recommended by the Cultural Parliament. Guaranteeing complete professional freedom in healthcare, including in training, independent judgement in treatment, and scientific development through research and insight will be the tasks of the Cultural Parliament.

Once you have a roof over your head, you need one further right to become firmly established and see you good to go. This right is a dedicated landline, fibre or copper, but preferably the latter, as it can also carry low-voltage power.

For over 25 years now, I have researched as deeply as possible the effects of radio waves on health. They are disastrous. Following some alarming research findings, I started warning publicly in 2003 that we would see a true pandemic of ADD and brain damage in children as a result of microwave exposure.

It’s here. And with wireless technology proliferating beyond belief, including in the realms of surveillance, it’s time that this deadly hazard is fully recognized and the vast amount of research in this field showing harm is revealed and publicly acknowledged.

I’ll offer exactly one piece of evidence as to the cause and extent of the damage, as well as the extent of the cover-up. Watch this episode of 60 Minutes presented by Anderson Cooper. I am amazed that it was ever made and even more amazed that it is still available. It is titled Screen Time. They deliberately use “screen time” to divert attention from radiation. It’s a 2018 report about a National Institutes of Health study into addiction in young people, where they looked at “screen time” among many other factors, like drugs and alcohol. At no point do they seem to consider whether these “devices” specifically employ wireless technology and emit radiation.

They found that 9- and 10-year-old kids who used “devices” for more than seven hours a day showed absolutely clear brain damage in the form of thinning of the cerebral cortex. This generally occurs in people in their sixties, their brain cells start dying off and they often suffer dementia.

You can see the thinning of the cortex quite clearly in this screenshot:

“The red colour represents premature thinning."

The brain on the left is not a senile aged person, as the radiographer would normally assume. It’s a 9-year-old kid who used “devices” for seven or more hours a day.

Google AI tells me: U.S. teenagers (ages 13–18) spend an average of 7 to over 8 hours daily on recreational screen media, excluding schoolwork, with some studies showing Gen Z averaging around 9 hours per day.

In the video, you’ll hear the researcher saying they can’t report the long-term effects yet, because “they need to happen” first. When Anderson Cooper calls this finding of cortex thinning “fascinating”, she replies “It’s very fascinating.”

According to ChatGPT, the specific finding about cortex thinning has not been published in a peer-reviewed journal as of now.

After months of searching in 2018, I managed to find the original NIH data, which is now hidden behind a research wall. I am a professional statistical editor and try as I might, I could not extract one hint of any of the above findings. There were lots of brain scans, the study looked at all kinds of addiction. I can honestly say, after editing many hundreds of studies, that this is the single most masterful case of statistical obfuscation I’ve ever seen. And oh boy, have I seen obfuscation.

I’ve identified, for example, exactly where this study around telecoms towers hid its cancer cluster. These Oxford researchers were also very clever. They exclude subjects living more than 1.4 km from a tower, because (they say) the radiation must be so low that it can be ignored. These are the exact pregnant mothers whose cellphones will be powering to a maximum, because they’re far from a mast. The actual engineering measurements show that these women will receive far more radiation than those living near a tower who use a mobile. So you take the very most radiated women, count them as “unexposed” and exclude them; and carefully omit any mention of use of mobile phones by the pregnant mothers. A simple trick. I can assure you, no feminists will look into this issue, I’ve put this information to many of them. Oxford University refuses to provide the data that will allow us to investigate their findings properly.

In Russia, pregnant women are banned from any cellphone use whatsoever. There are warning signs in high radiation areas. The official Russian government guideline is no cellphone use until age 18, because the nervous, hormonal and immune systems are still developing. I personally confirmed this with Dr. Oleg Grigoriev, chairman of the Russian radiation protection committee. He put out a tweet during Covid to say students under 18 learning at home should not use smartphones to study.

No need to warn citizens of the West.

Anyway: I’m good at reverse-engineering statistical coverups. But I have to hand it to the scientists at the National Institutes of Health. You bury your bodies the very best.

I asked Children’s Health Defense repeatedly, now that their founder Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is secretary of health, whether he could perhaps find out what his NIH was covering up about brain damage to children. Dead silence.

We have permanently damaged the brains of a generation of children, and we’re absolutely deliberately destroying the brains of the next. To see what happens.

Under the Threefold Social Platform, communications will be wired absolutely wherever possible. Mobile tech will mainly be for emergency use and will be extremely expensive, while landline use will of course be completely free within the Triune State. To facilitate safer mobile use, completely benign receiving-only antennas can be densely located across the landscape, so that no mobile phone has to power up too much. Fibre has been installed right across the landscape already. It’s just those last few inches you have to bridge. People may be able to plug in at these receiving facilities, whereupon their calls will automatically become free.

Anyone using a wireless device accepts that they will automatically be tracked across the landscape. Any mobile use will be regarded as a possible emergency.

All developers of wireless tech are hereby put on notice: your days of unfettered proliferation are strictly numbered. You had better form strong industry associations to work out a way forward for yourselves. Starting with the incalculable damages.

Back to the Rights Platform. Sorry for the diversion, but it was essential.

You have the right to a landline. You actually also have the right to a reasonably radiation-free environment — an unimaginable right anywhere in the world at present, except in designated radio astronomy zones.

You have the right to a basic tablet to connect you to the Internet. This includes having a basic telephone with a telephone number.

You have the right to a Rights State-supplied email address to which all official correspondence will be sent. In principle, anyone in the world who needs to get in touch with you should be able to do so via this email address.

When it comes to election time, the Rights Platform will ensure that each legitimate candidate receives equal bandwidth to advocate for themselves. This is where the concepts of the TSO become so valuable. The essence of politics isn’t free speech. It’s equal speech.

How this is all handled is up to the creative engineers and social engineers of the Rights State Platform.

5.2 The Economic Platform

The Economic Platform is the primary concern of the Economic Parliament. First and foremost, it is a trading and marketing platform for the entire Triune State.

This includes full and fast electronic settlement of payments. The Economic Parliament will maintain an electronic currency using a distributed network comprising the computing power of every citizen and business. I am the director of a radio astronomy company, so instead of solving useless mathematical puzzles as “proof of work”, as Bitcoin miners do — in a race against other miners, where if you lose, your effort and energy is wasted — I strongly suggest that “miners” be offered radio astronomy processing tasks, for guaranteed pay. This can be “hashed” with economic transactions across the entire network to create a completely secure live currency.

As a bonus, you might even detect an intelligent message from another galaxy.

The raw data from the Square Kilometre Array telescope is up to 100 times the bandwidth of the entire World Wide Web. The cosmos can provide enough data to hash any string.

Every citizen will therefore have a tablet or a server in their home, steadily processing algorithms and steadily earning small amounts of money. The more bandwidth they allocate to this, the more they earn. This is a BIG basic income grant.

Since all this processing is driving the entire economy, it should be quite feasible to grant small amounts of money to people helping with the enterprise.

All business data will be handled through the Economic Platform. I worked on a business wire, maize reports I wrote were on Dow Jones. The further you go in business, the more you understand the importance and power of comprehensive and timely data.

Advertising, marketing, association events, all direct business activity of all kinds, is handled on this platform. Anyone is completely free to use the wider Internet, but the Economic Platform comes with simple and accessible payments for everyone.

I invite any business professional, any CEO, to ask themselves: wouldn’t you prefer business to be run top to bottom by business people? Wouldn’t you like to create and administer your own damn administration?

Every country would come up with a different model. I often think about Russia, I would make Moscow the political capital, Saint Petersburg the cultural capital and Novosibirsk in Siberia the economic capital. Just saying.

I would invite any developer to consider the guidelines above. Any innovation you make that is in any way in line with any of these concepts, will be directly implementing the threefold principle.

Above all, this is the platform of fraternity — we are all on this ride together.

I want to end with an image of the person I consider most to be the most absolute possible opposite of everything the Economic Parliament represents, someone who would not be allowed through the door, someone who should be charged with war crimes, the computerized slaughterer of children, with AI apps like “Where’s Daddy?”. This is Larry Ellison, famous for saying “It is not sufficient that I succeed. Everyone else must fail.”

In fact he stole this saying from Genghis Khan, but he made it his own enough to have it feature in the title of a book about him.

Larry Ellison: banned from the trading floor.

There’s a big term in econometrics these days, I know, because I earn a living editing academic studies in the field: coopetition, cooperation with competition and vice versa. The TSO is based on entirely friendly coopetition. Businesses compete to see which can contribute the most to the overall wellbeing of their industry.

Steiner is adamant that the manifold benefits of association will mean that any company that opts out finds itself at such a vast disadvantage that it cannot function properly in society. It’s like any game. You have to cooperate, follow the rules, in order to play. The market itself will show what is viable, what is sustainable.

I don’t have space here to consider the international aspects, but consider the incalculable advantages of trade between two nations both under the TSO. Businesses in each country would deal directly with each other, without any interference of politicians. Imagine that. Just think how much that would do to reduce the friction of business.

Including war, the ultimate friction.

5.3 The Cultural Platform

As a former teacher, the Cultural Parliament is my personal deepest concern.

The Cultural Platform will provide absolutely every educational resource available on the planet to the citizens of the Triune State. If you want access to a scientific paper behind a paywall, and can justify why you need it, the Cultural Platform will find a way to make it available to you. It will subscribe to simply everything.

All educational institutions, all individual educators and trainers, will be featured on the Cultural Platform to the extent that they want to promote themselves.

All artists of all kinds will be able to host their content and promote it on this platform. Here the producer is truly sovereign.

All religious institutions and groups, all spiritual organizations, cultural bodies of all kinds, will find space to express themselves freely here.

Very importantly, national cultures and ethnic groupings will find a home here. There will be cultural parliaments with Ukrainian and Russian associations sitting in the same hall.

One of the greatest benefits of the TSO, if it becomes an international phenomenon, is that ethnic peoples distributed across different states will be able to form coherent groups across national borders. Steiner says the failure to achieve this was one of the reasons Austria-Hungary failed:

Their way of thinking could admit of no other conception than that the boundaries of the political states are also the boundaries of nationality. That intellectual and educational institutions might cut right across the frontiers of States, this was an idea that their conceptions could not grasp. And yet this “inconceivable” thing is precisely what the new age demands in international life.

Again, think how the Cultural Platform could enable this kind of cross-border integration.

There’s another extremely important connection among the realms. While the Rights Parliament implements the courts and provides the prosecutors, legal advisors, police and correctional officers, the actual Judges are chosen from leading figures in the cultural realm. People will be able to choose judges from their own communities, their own nationalities, who understand them and will judge them according to their own values.

A Muslim charged with aggravated murder may nominate a Muslim judge under Islamic law, sitting with legal advisors appointed by the Rights State. If found guilty, the judge may sentence him to death. If there are no grounds for clemency, the Rights State is responsible for carrying out the sentence.

If you think about it, this is exactly how Christ was executed. He was charged and found guilty under Hebrew law, which the Roman administration recognized, but the sentence was carried out by the Roman State using Roman methods. Just saying.

The Cultural Platform would carry the register of available judges from each significant community.

One point must be made very clear. While allowing the utmost freedom in artistic freedom, overt pornography would be entirely banned from the Threefold Platform, even the commercial branch. Bandwidth is sacred, it represents human spirit. If you want that stuff, go to the open Internet. It is not tolerable that the crucial work of society has to compete with this kind of degradation. The administration and judgement of this across all platforms would be left to the moderators of the Cultural Platform. Any crimes revealed would be referred to the police of the Rights State.

Freedom is not going to be abused.

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6. The Only Possible Path To Ethical Tech

This has been the very barest skeleton I can offer as to a digital architecture that will actually get tech under control.

This is fighting fire with fire.

I read an anecdote from a while back, some anthroposophists were in a study group at the Goetheanum, the concrete structure in Dornach, Switzerland that Rudolf Steiner designed after his wooden masterpiece was burned to the ground by the Nazis.

The meeting went on for too long and they found themselves locked in the building. The uniformed Swiss guards outside refused to help, their orders were clear, the doors must be kept locked after a certain time and that time had passed.

The leader of the study group, however, knew a way out through the basement.

On the way, he stopped at a cupboard and quietly showed them one of the Goetheanum’s greatest secrets. Back in the 1980s, they had actually bought a computer and used it in the building. It was very carefully hidden away now.

These days, the Goetheanum library catalogue is available online and I presume they have computers in the building. As Rudolf Steiner himself said, there’s no point trying to fight technology. The point is to get the right people in charge of it and to use it in the right way.

If humankind was suddenly granted unlimited pollution-free energy, the results would be disastrous under our present social structure. We would run totally amok.

If you take a look at this article, at the end you’ll find an extraordinary prediction: that one day we will have truly “moral” technology, devices that literally refuse to operate if they are asked to perform evil or polluting actions. Machines with genuine ethical capacity, able to sense and interpret intent.

You’ll see that there is a necessary condition for this technology to come into existence. It is that the Threefold Social Order has been realized in at least a few areas on Earth.

I put it to the designers and inventors of the world: if you saw quite clearly that the existence of a particular social structure was necessary for your application to function, where would you start? As an engineer, a trained problem-solver?

By the way, I actually received a reply from Gary Marcus. He said “thank heavens dario is resisting.” I was going to answer: there will be plenty of others falling over themselves to take Dario’s place, but I see he’s already covered that story. Sam Altman had already been secretly negotiating with the Pentagon to fill the gap. OpenAI, whose original mission was “to build general‑purpose artificial intelligence that safely benefits humanity, unconstrained by a need to generate financial return.”

You safely benefit humanity by enabling the punch-drunk-with-power Pete Hegseth to deploy autonomous killing robots and nuclear weapons. Using ChatGPT. For lots and lots of money. Got that.

Again, this essay was triggered by Marcus’s article “Code Red for Humanity?”

Betteridge’s Law of Headlines states: “Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.”

To which I add the exception: unless that headline was written by Gary Marcus.

This is not a drill. The world is now fully at war. It broke out yesterday morning. I actually wish the US military would immediately load ChatGPT into every mission-critical decision node. I cannot think of any possible way of destroying American hegemony faster. Then, AI might actually save the planet.

March 1 2026

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