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It's no surprise that our system doesn't work. It was designed hundreds of years ago, It does work, mainly because it was designed by hackers... Think about i
by edw519 16y ago
It's no surprise that our system doesn't work. It was designed hundreds of years ago,
It does work, mainly because it was designed by hackers...
Think about it, our government is based upon an application that was launched 15 years before Babbage was even born!
It has redundancy (feds and states), load balancing (redistricting), semi-autonomous components (local governments), built-in testing (checks and balances), and even maintains itself (constitutional amendments).
I didn't say that it always runs well, but it keeps on running. I only wish that I can launch something that runs for 230 years.
- baguasquirrel 16y agoIt's also fair to say that entropy has taken its toll on the implementation of the system, and it's overdue for some refactoring. Let's be more constructive here. For starters, how many people know their local reps and actually expect said reps to improve the quality of life in their neighborhood? Why is that?
- kjksf 16y agoYour premise, that U.S. government structure was designed, is wrong, and analogy to computing buzzwords strenuous. U.S. government is not all that different (in the big picture) from most other governments and the reason is because it's a result of a long evolution of a system whose basic blocks are not that different from those in Roman empire. Sure, if you go deep enough, there will be plenty of differences between U.S. system, French system or German system, but they all share the attributes you mentioned (local governance, various checks and balances in the system, a way to modify the laws).
- eru 16y agoBy that standard the British are doing even better.