Signal Ethics

A Framework for Decentralized, Human-Scaled Governance

Futuristic Desert City built into the side of a mesa

A vision for the future of civic life: ethical, coherent, and built to scale through human relationship, not hierarchy.

  • “At every level the greatest obstacle to transforming the world is that we lack the clarity and imagination to conceive that it could be different."

    Roberto Mangabeira Unger

  • “Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.”

    C. Wright Mills

  • “Everything affects everything else, and you have to understand that whole web of connections.”

    M. Mitchell Waldrop

  • “As we begin to understand complex systems, we begin to understand that we’re part of an ever‑changing, interlocking, non‑linear, kaleidoscopic world.”

    W. Brian Arthur

  • “It’s sad that governments are chiefed by the double‑tongues. There is iron in your words of death for all Comanche to see, and so there is iron in your words of life. No signed paper can hold the iron. It must come from men.”

    Ten Bears, The Outlaw Josey Wales

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