On Tue, 24 Jul 2018 05:06:01 -0500 John Newman <jnn@synfin.org> wrote:
On July 23, 2018 3:42:49 PM CDT, juan <juan.g71@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, 23 Jul 2018 12:03:18 +1000 Zenaan Harkness <zen@freedbms.net> wrote:
∙ the state direct democracy anarchy/ism
so what is 'direct democracy'? A bunch of statists who can 'directly vote' on how to abuse their betters?
unless you give some actual specification for 'direct democracy'
In sci-fi by Alistair Reynolds there is a certain faction called the Demarchists (or demarchy, but doesn't have the same connotation as the English word) - they all get a neural implant at birth that automatically polls them on every conceivable issue in their particular community, eventually it sort of faids to a low background noise in their head.... And they all vote, on everything. I think it would drive you fucking insane but its a type of (speculative) "direct democracy".
And the author presents it as good, bad, or he remains impartial to it? Anyway, that sort of mechanism seems like a wet dream for people interested in turning (other) people into the most 'efficient' cogs for 'society'.
(which is just another for of statism anyway) you are not saying much, if anything.