On July 25, 2018 12:56:17 AM CDT, juan <juan.g71@gmail.com> wrote:
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?
Impartial - just another fucked up form of far flung post humanity. I think the biggest demarchist factions are mostly destroyed through the course of the stories (I'm not sure - I haven't read them all ;)
Anyway, that sort of mechanism seems like a wet dream for people interested in turning (other) people into the most 'efficient' cogs for 'society'.
Yeah it does leave a bit of a bad taste in your mouth. Still, an interesting thought experiment.
(which is just another for of statism anyway) you are not saying
much,
if anything.