Mark Pesce on The Tribal Future

I was alerted to an interesting presentation from the recent Public Democracy Forum (thanks @blogstar, I knew I should have gone) by Mark Pesce (@mpesce) on Hyperpolitics (see transcript here, and the video, here).

One nugget:

The future looks nothing like democracy, because democracy, which sought to empower the individual, is being obsolesced by a social order which hyperempowers him.

We are able to end run mass organizations — in the presentation, Mark discusses the likelihood that the grass roots Obama organization may take its own direction post election — and as a result, we become self-organized based on the core social wiring innate within us: a tribal future.