On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 22:58:52 PM +0100, Orsan Senalp wrote: > Since the demise of the Athenian model -which was physically made > possible thanks to the slave labour so that every citizen had the > time to govern or learn how to govern things when their turn came > up...
I really think that the first thing that made the "Athenian model" possible in the first place was that their world was much simpler and smaller. They used tools, clothes, foods, weapons, houses, medicines and what not that, by and large were manufactured: - very close, in places they could realistically visit if they already weren't out of their door - with procedures simple, visible, touchable enough to allow almost every citizen with a working brain to "get" how they worked and grasp at least the biggest implications. and everybody else on the planet lived in the same way, therefore it wasn't possible for somebody living on the opposite side of the planet to, say, pollute so much that it would harm YOUR life. Or send drones your way in a few hours, for that matter, or block your communications. IMHO, such conditions were the main if not only thing that made it possible for every citizen to "learn how to govern things when their turn came" without making a mess. There was much less to learn than today. Marco http://mfioretti.com _______________________________________________ P2P Foundation - Mailing list http://www.p2pfoundation.net https://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation
