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> any system based on electing representatives makes it impossible to ex ante anticipate the decision making that the representative will actually undertake in

> any system based on electing representatives makes it impossible to ex ante anticipate the decision making that the representative will actually undertake in office. If the candidates were those who have done many good for the society, then there is high probability that any of them will do comparatively well for the society than candidates chosen not based on their merits. > true democracy -No one knows what it even is are we even doing any debate on how to improve the situation? that would be a start. > 55% in control doesn't want the other 45% to have those those(healthcare and education atleast) are needs of everyone. I don't see why anyone would disagree with making those mandatory and free/accessible for everyone. If that is implemented, coming generations would be well civilized and well behaved as it eliminates many societal problems.

vezzy-fnord 11y ago
If you don't see why anyone would disagree with making state schooling a compulsory activity, then your understanding is far too narrow to engage in a discussion of this nature. If that is implemented, coming generations would be well civilized and well behaved as it eliminates many societal problems. Oh boy. Not even wrong. See: Deschooling Society by Ivan Illich, Compulsory Miseducation by Paul Goodman, anything written by John Taylor Gatto, John Holt and A.S. Neill. It's also trivially disprovable by mere observation.
- rubberstamp 11y ago
  I am all for making education accessible to anyone who needs it. Currently college is not affordable. By education, I meant some better form of learning. Those books describe an actual problem that needs to be fixed. If the education system would teach people to think critically, analyze and identify the good and bad with something, then that is the ideal education. Once a person can think clear, it will almost always show in his actions. I had a teacher, who taught us to think about the why's? We really struggled initially. But then it made me curious about many things, which I followed by reading up on it. Reading about many different things, be that stories, news, science, technology, culture gave me a view that is accommodating of other humans and their point of view. I am very fond of that teacher. Without her, I wouldn't be what I am today. I cannot tell the same about any other teacher in my life. Now that was education I received from her.

vezzy-fnord 11y ago

If you don't see why anyone would disagree with making state schooling a compulsory activity, then your understanding is far too narrow to engage in a discussion of this nature. If that is implemented, coming generations would be well civilized and well behaved as it eliminates many societal problems. Oh boy. Not even wrong. See: Deschooling Society by Ivan Illich, Compulsory Miseducation by Paul Goodman, anything written by John Taylor Gatto, John Holt and A.S. Neill. It's also trivially disprovable by mere observation.

rubberstamp 11y ago
I am all for making education accessible to anyone who needs it. Currently college is not affordable. By education, I meant some better form of learning. Those books describe an actual problem that needs to be fixed. If the education system would teach people to think critically, analyze and identify the good and bad with something, then that is the ideal education. Once a person can think clear, it will almost always show in his actions. I had a teacher, who taught us to think about the why's? We really struggled initially. But then it made me curious about many things, which I followed by reading up on it. Reading about many different things, be that stories, news, science, technology, culture gave me a view that is accommodating of other humans and their point of view. I am very fond of that teacher. Without her, I wouldn't be what I am today. I cannot tell the same about any other teacher in my life. Now that was education I received from her.