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> a literate voting public that can reason and discuss the impact of policy and make informed votes for those that represent them? I think we already lost that
by spdionis 11y ago
> a literate voting public that can reason and discuss the impact of policy and make informed votes for those that represent them?
I think we already lost that long ago. For a lot of important topics having a literate general public is NP-Hard. That's the main issue with democracy in our age.
- hosh 11y agoI agree that we lost that a long time ago. I think we still cling to that ideal as wishful thinking, and that gap between what we'd like democracy to be and what it is now introduces distortions in how we talk about this or reason about it. I'm not entirely sure the micro-directives will help with this. It's something I might meditate upon some time down the road.