Criticisms of bureaucracies are valid in that decisions by groups are difficult. The more consensus required the slower the process. Isn't this just the human

Criticisms of bureaucracies are valid in that decisions by groups are difficult. The more consensus required the slower the process. Isn't this just the human manifestation of the CAP theorem? Bureaucracy is a democratically managed database. Anyways. All that to say, it seems valid to work on the system and within. You list local, city, county etc, and to the detriment of the system those are global write locks. > The government is us, and it’s huge and slow and careful and conservative and complex. But it needs us inside to change. I'd like you to consider the government is slow and huge not because of any bad will or conspiracy, but it exists that way due to technical limitations of human organization and achieving consensus. Our government is Encyclopedia Britannica and we're expecting Wikipedia levels of quality and availability. The underlying organizational structure simply cannot support our expectations. I believe a more participatory form of democracy would be for us not to vote for editors, but a protocol that allows agreeable edits to be socially accepted and contentious edits to be ignored.