Why the World Can Be so Much Better - Part Two

I ended Part One of this article a few days ago with the following question:

So, for me, the fundamental question is how to make beneficial social and organizational emergence and synergy happen more often than the supervening forces that push us backward.

As noted in Part One, Supervenience sucks. And when the threats, black swans, and swans of many different colors fly over your house and make your world suck, you need an effective, often life-saving response.