On July 23, 2018 3:42:49 PM CDT, juan <[email protected]> wrote:
>On Mon, 23 Jul 2018 12:03:18 +1000
>Zenaan Harkness <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> ∙ the state direct democracy anarchy/ism
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> so what is 'direct democracy'? A bunch of statists who can 'directly
>vote' on how to abuse their betters?
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> 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".
>(which is just another for of statism anyway) you are not saying much,
>if anything.
