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The rabid cats herding was a bit glib in my part, consensus is hard to come by, but valuable. With so many different points of contention though it’s almost to
by zeristor 7y ago
The rabid cats herding was a bit glib in my part, consensus is hard to come by, but valuable. With so many different points of contention though it’s almost to get agreement across the board; a statespace explosion.
Several hundred years ago the main question was which crop to grow.
- simonh 7y agoSeveral hundred years ago the main question was who would make the best king to lead us into the next war, which would probably be next year. Sorry if I'm being glib, that's incidental to your main points.
- zeristor 7y agoThey didn’t get to chose the king did they, otherwise it would have been a democracy.
- simonh 7y agoWell, wars of succession were a thing.
- coldtea 7y agoThere were lots of ways to chose a king. Heredity was just one of them -- which is why not all kings (or roman emperors etc) are from the same family. In lots of cases, popular support (or lack thereof) played a big role (in some cases, even more directly than in current democracies).
- NeedMoreTea 7y agoOften popular support of the elements of the landed gentry with largest armed hirds or retinues to call upon. Not quite the modern sense of popular support.
- coldtea 7y agoReplace landed gentry with corporatist class, and "largest armed hireds" with mass media, and you're not very far off.
- jacobush 7y agoOr which king to pay allegiance to, the invading or the sitting. Wait, have many parties can you vote for?