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I think this is largely explained by Hayek's 'Problem of Knowledge in Society': http://www.econlib.org/library/Essays/hykKnw1.html http://www.econlib.org/librar
by Kinnard 11y ago
I think this is largely explained by Hayek's 'Problem of Knowledge in Society': http://www.econlib.org/library/Essays/hykKnw1.html http://www.econlib.org/library/Essays/hykKnw1.html
Direct Democracy was impossible and representative democracy was necessary because it was impossible to aggregate the wishes of a populace.
Mass telecommunication solves or at least paves the road to solving this problem.
- RogtamBar 11y agoWhat people may wish for and what needs to be done seem, to me, to be completely different things. Take Germans and their nuclear power plants. Despite the plants in Japan failing because of conjunction of shoddy construction, earthquake and tsunami, of which only 1 could even be a case in Germany - Germans closed their nuke plants in response. I don't see how wise decisions would result from aggregation. We've not been shaped by evolution to be rational or realistic, but to have an inflated opinion of self and of our chances - because that was advantageous. I really doubt that is the case when it comes to running countries.