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nothing surprising that a two plus thousand year old form of societal organization (which emerged to organize small cardinality set of equal peers who themselv
by VladRussian 16y ago
nothing surprising that a two plus thousand year old form of societal organization (which emerged to organize small cardinality set of equal peers who themselves were the top of the hierarchical society (oligarchy)) - democracy - and the form that has emerged during recent decades are incompatible.
How many 2000 year old things are still actual or fitting well with the modern technologies? Horse races? Sailing? Basics of writing and calculation?
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- slapshot 16y ago> How many 2000 year old things are still actual? Horse races? Sailing? Basics of writing and calculation? Prostitution. And it's even older than that. Bread, beer, wine. Perfume. Hebrew (sortof). The numbers 3 and 4 (sortof: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_numbers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_numbers). Etc.
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- alexqgb 16y agoLanguage? "Oh" you say "but language has evolved." Which is true. And so has democracy.
- VladRussian 16y agoNo, it was patched only. Democracy is a system that can't effectively scale beyond big room or small town square (in particular, the voting event is a "synchronization barrier" that restricts the scalability). As a result with increased number of participants we are forced to keep oligarchical structure with small cardinality set of equals (among themselves only) peers - city council, Congress, etc... - on top of the managed society. The development of human society calls for a system where everybody is a peer equal to everybody else. While it is early to say, it is possible that network technologies pave the way for such new forms [or may be some completely different, hard to imagine] of society organization