Ian, I agree. The solution as I imagine it (with childlike mind) is to first open up all closed-door meetings to public comment.
Which doesn't mean that I would personally review every single decision of say, the Chiropractor's board, but those who have the most interest could bring their discussions to the attention of the governing bodies and search the archives later, when and if, modifications seem necessary. That's the first step. Eventually, we'd see the regulatory bodies being phased out as expert consensus made such cabalistic boards unnecessary, saving money and improving quality in govt on all levels. Openess, discussion and Quality as a specific goal. And perhaps a modicum of tolerance for chaos. What the heck, as our current system runs out of energy we're gonna have that anyway. And while we're on the subject of information dispensing, what is going to happen to democracy in America when the last newspaper folds its doors? Would government subsidy be appropriate here, perhaps out of the Public TV budget? J On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 6:15 AM, Ian Glendinning <[email protected]>wrote: > > > The biggest risk I see with the ultimate in social decentralization of > anarchic total democracy is that if there is no governance (even by > imperfect systems of imperfect elected individuals) ... is that we are > entirely in the hands of the information circulating - how easily it > circulates and is assimilated by the greatest number, rather than > whether there is any value in complexity and subtlety of direct > experience. Pure memetics. (Solutions to this problem will also > evolve, but the relative pace of change in communications compared to > human psyche makes the possibilities scarily unpredictable. All DQ > with few trusty latches.) > > Ian > > -- ------------ The self is a point along a dynamic continuum, evolving toward Quality by Choice. ------------ Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
