Nice turn! >makes decisions on its own Somehow, society making decisions on its own is a Stephen King story.. maybe direct democrats should just not use that

Nice turn! >makes decisions on its own Somehow, society making decisions on its own is a Stephen King story.. maybe direct democrats should just not use that name that always triggers. How about "civilianism"? https://jacobin.com/2025/11/mamdani-chavez-torres-municipal-democracy-socialism https://jacobin.com/2025/11/mamdani-chavez-torres-municipal-... A participatory budget, which gave residents binding control over the full municipal investment budget. (Contexts: upcoming Donald-Zohran meeting, Venezuela. Etc): Current day examples (which are a bit more nuanced than in Thurow's day, but I'd argue the Gresham bug picture is roughly the same as what you said. "First-mover foot-gun"?) -Tesla vs BYD (even though Tesla's factories in China are most productive) -NVIDIA infra (note the optical fiber history repeating itself ) Literary case study: The villain in Snow Crash is a missing element of to-day's oligarch periodic table (Evangelical sham-futurist) Good names are the first hard quest. To ward off Lasch's alt-institutionism