This is an idea that has sat with me for a long time. The topic is huge so I am going to post it in pieces. The first piece may strike you as bizare and your reaction may be one of immediate rejection, please try to approach it openly:
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Democracy is fatally flawed and should be rejected as the primary basis for decision making and govorning
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Why?
-it is by definition the supression of the minority by the majority
-complexity is increasing in issues and topics as society matures
-the average IQ is 100, the average education level is slightly above high school.
-simply put the average citizen is increasingly incapable of understanding issues they are deciding on
-suppose a comet will collide with earth 17 years from now and we must choose a location to send an interdiction. Choose a random 100 citizens and have them vote on the location....
-or vote to raise the minimum wage
-or have them weigh the effects of pollution vs nuclear energy
-both those real-world cases involve orders of magnitude more variables with more complex interactions.
-Advertising and manipulation techniques tend to increase in efficiency and sophistication over time as advancements are made
-Democracie's hyper reliance on opinion gaurantees the increase of opinion control trechnology
-like an organism that has acquired a benificial survival trait political systems that utilize it tend to out compete political systems that do not use it - no different than the progressive ratcheting effect that drives darwinistic evolution.
-if you set out to design a govornment that would intrinsicly and automatically tend, over time, to end in a state of practical mind control of it's citizens, you would build in forces similar to those present in Democracy.
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I have a rich inventory of additional supporting clauses, but I would like to open the floor to objections and comments. Remember, you are currently thinking from within a culture that conditions you to uncritical acceptance of Democracy so try to factor that in.
P.S. Don't worry, Im not pushing socialism, communism or any other such agenda that you likely have inbuilt biases against. I'm addressing this from the position of an information theorist who is studying Utopian and Dystopian architectures.
Thank you (really) for spending your time reading this.
It is important to me and your perspectives are encouraged.
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Democracy is fatally flawed and should be rejected as the primary basis for decision making and govorning
***********************************************
Why?
-it is by definition the supression of the minority by the majority
-complexity is increasing in issues and topics as society matures
-the average IQ is 100, the average education level is slightly above high school.
-simply put the average citizen is increasingly incapable of understanding issues they are deciding on
-suppose a comet will collide with earth 17 years from now and we must choose a location to send an interdiction. Choose a random 100 citizens and have them vote on the location....
-or vote to raise the minimum wage
-or have them weigh the effects of pollution vs nuclear energy
-both those real-world cases involve orders of magnitude more variables with more complex interactions.
-Advertising and manipulation techniques tend to increase in efficiency and sophistication over time as advancements are made
-Democracie's hyper reliance on opinion gaurantees the increase of opinion control trechnology
-like an organism that has acquired a benificial survival trait political systems that utilize it tend to out compete political systems that do not use it - no different than the progressive ratcheting effect that drives darwinistic evolution.
-if you set out to design a govornment that would intrinsicly and automatically tend, over time, to end in a state of practical mind control of it's citizens, you would build in forces similar to those present in Democracy.
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I have a rich inventory of additional supporting clauses, but I would like to open the floor to objections and comments. Remember, you are currently thinking from within a culture that conditions you to uncritical acceptance of Democracy so try to factor that in.
P.S. Don't worry, Im not pushing socialism, communism or any other such agenda that you likely have inbuilt biases against. I'm addressing this from the position of an information theorist who is studying Utopian and Dystopian architectures.
Thank you (really) for spending your time reading this.
It is important to me and your perspectives are encouraged.
