Bob's term for the actual planetary governance of the electric age — "not world government," and "not outer space," but the resonant-node condition of the Global Membrane wearing a political face. He instances it with Echelon (the Five Eyes intelligence pact) and insists it is a perceptual state — an intensified interior landscape — rather than an institution one could point to. Named as far back as dialogue 06; re-sharpened in dialogue 40.
Across the dialogues
Sharpened against the globalist-versus-nationalist argument — Bob names Echelon as the real thing and recasts solar government as an intensified interior landscape, a resonant node with no visual markers, i.e. tactility squared, rather than any orbital or world state
Bob coins "solar government" for what the globalist-versus-nationalist argument is too "puny" to name — globalism imagined as 1920s "physical imperialism" misses the real thing.
"so then I would come up with terms like solar government."
"Solar" is not spatial — the term names an intensified interior landscape, not an orbital or extraterrestrial regime.
"The solar government is not outer space."
Solar government is a perceptual condition — a resonating node with no visual marker points, which Bob equates with tactility squared.
"It's a more extreme version of your interior landscape."
Connections
solar government is the governance side of the resonant-node membrane — "not world government," a perceptual condition rather than an institution.
Bob points to Echelon (the Five Eyes signals-intelligence pact) as the actual solar government, against the "puny" 1920s image of globalism as physical imperialism.