I don't do history. Recently, I've been writing a book that starts out in 492 BCE and the voyage of the Persian, Mardonius, sailing the Mediterranean creating democratic government in Ionia, replacing tyrants. My broad case is that democracy was well-known in the Achaemenid Empire and was always really a form of participative management - rule by rhetoric under a myth of freedom. The Greeks were slavers, sexist, racist and generally unpleasant. The real structure of democracy was always rule by aristocrats and the only people 'free' were these toffs. It all looks a bit like Magna Carta where the freemen were very few in number. I want to link this 'Dark Athens' to the modern day and our current denial of genuine rule of ourselves through new structures of language and institutions possible through new technologies.
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