I think the National Initiative ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_initiative#National_Initiative_for_Democracy_.28USA.29 ) is one of the most promising of proposed changes to the system of human governance that I have seen.
I am also fond of the concept of an AItocracy: using open-source AI's to judge and automatically make void any law that it determines to be unconstitutional. The code, being open-source, can be re-run and verified by anybody. (but we aren't quite there yet technologically (although perhaps if the laws and constitution were written in Lojban it would be easier). Jason On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 7:45 AM, Alberto G. Corona <[email protected]> wrote: > > Probably the only natural government, the one that does not need an > ideological legitimation, is the feudal system. And all the rest tend to > reproduce it in a bastardized way. > > That means that wathever the formal gobernment, the human nature tend > towards a feudal system of loyalities, towards persons and families rather > than a loyality to depersonalized institutions. These loyalities can help > or cans subvert the formal ldemocratic regime. > > That is why the democratic regimes need a form of cult to the founders > of the democracy, or else, a monarchy that embodies the loyalities and > canalize that loyality from the king to the democratic regime sanctioned by > him. For the same reason, the republican democracies need the cult to some > withened political figures that symbolize their values. > > That may or may not work. Some of these loyalities can destroy the formal > regime or, more frequently can corrupt or undermine it, so that the formal > system hides the real one, which makes use of the formal system for their > own purposes. Since this real regime is hidden, it adopt a form of corrupt > system, wheren the lawyers, police, media etc don´t execute what the formal > law tells but what is adequeate for the hidden loyality system. > > Normally this last one is the real regime that operates in every so called > "democracy" > > 2014-12-18 11:37 GMT+01:00 Telmo Menezes <[email protected]>: >> >> >> >> On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 11:25 AM, LizR <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> "Democracy is the worst system of government ever invented - apart from >>> all the others." >>> >>> Winston Churchill >>> >> >> So why didn't he revolt against his own country's unelected sovereigns? >> The fellow was full of contradictions: >> >> "The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with >> the average voter." >> >> Winston Churchill >> >> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Everything List" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Everything List" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > > -- > Alberto. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
