The Obsolete Politician: Why We Already Live in a World Run by Protocols, Not Politicians

1. The Broken Traffic Light Proof. Society self-organizes daily without political theater. A failed traffic light causes no debates, votes, or representatives—just collective pragmatism based on simple rules. This reveals most "politics" is just bad technical management of broken systems.

2. The Internet Is the Blueprint. The largest coordination systems in history—the internet, Linux, Bitcoin—run flawlessly without politicians, elections, or borders. They operate on open protocols, maintained by technicians, not governed by politicians.

3. The Physical World Already Works This Way. National borders are political fiction. The electrical grid, railway networks, air traffic control, and global postal systems already transcend politics. They are governed by technical protocols and engineers, not partisan agendas.

4. Politicians Are a Bug, Not a Feature. We elect people to form a group to manage coordination. Yet the most complex coordination happens without them. This is not a future ideal—it’s the current reality we pretend isn’t true.

5. The Real Layer Is Protocol, Not Politics. What we call "politics" is just a poorly designed, opaque layer plastered over systems that naturally work via clear rules. The state is an obsolete artifact that disrupts the fluidity of global networks.

6. The Shift Happened Decades Ago. We are not choosing a new world—we already live in it. Global protocol-based coordination (finance, data, infrastructure) has already atomized local political power. The old left-right theater is just a narrative shell.

7. Adoption, Not Morality, Drives Change. Systems win based on network effects, not moral superiority. WhatsApp won because everyone used it. TCP/IP won because it was simpler. The best protocol is the one adopted, not the one deemed most "just" by committees.

8. The Technician Replaces the Ruler. The role of authority is not to decide but to maintain. Like a technician fixing a traffic light, the job is to ensure infrastructure works—not to govern interactions. Most political conflict is just unresolved maintenance.

9. We Are in a State of Collective Schizophrenia. We rely on apolitical global protocols for everything that matters (communication, energy, transport) yet cling to the myth that society must be ruled by localized political drama. This cognitive dissonance is the source of systemic failure.

10. The Future Is Inevitable Protocol Sovereignty. The question is no longer *if* but *who writes the protocols*. Will they be open, decentralized, and resilient—or closed, controlled, and exploitative? The battle isn’t political; it’s technical. And it’s already over. Politicians just haven’t left the stage yet.