ABOUT THE BOOK

The lessons are an extract from an unpublished manuscript of the same title, and which is 150 pages long, or three times the length of the abbreviated version given on this website. The full work explores democracy in the context of the role it is playing in human evolution: how it is an evolutionary signpost of our progress as a species and how it even portends our transition to become a new, more advanced form of life. As part of this, the work covers many additional subjects, including evolutionary theory; the social context for democracy and the history of human social evolution; and the idea that we will inevitably move from a representative model of democracy, the system that we have in place now and where we elect leaders, to direct, where we truly do govern ourselves. Said another way, the future is cell-phone voting, and on all important governmental issues.

The book also has many examples from different nations around the world. The United States is featured, because of its role as the leading advocate of democracy, and since its system is considered the standard presidential model. The work further concludes that the U.S. requires a new Constitutional Convention, to prepare the nation to meet the demands with which American democracy will be faced, in the coming, and tumultuous, period of evolutionary change.

My name is Roland Watson, and I’m the author of the work and this website. Please get in touch if you are a literary agent or an editor at a publishing company.