> We need to address the fact that we've lost faith in our governments, and that we don't depend on our .gov to provide for our needs, and that we don't believe

> We need to address the fact that we've lost faith in our governments, and that we don't depend on our .gov to provide for our needs, and that we don't believe in the contract anymore. This is a short-sighted sort of fix, and one that is only going to lay the groundwork for a much, much messier attempt at resolution. We need to fix the .gov. I would really like to see more people taking an interest in figuring out the details of how to construct a government. Most people tend to go with the overly simplistic solutions of (1) "magically minimize" or (2) "reset back to [insert date here: 1776; 1860; 1950]", neither of which are intellectually honest answers. (They're akin to asking, "What kind of map projection do you prefer?" "A globe.") I've done some work in the area (an HN search will turn up me talking about it), but I'm crippled by my own neuroses. It'd be nice to see better toolsets for collaboration, for instance, or figuring out a way to wholly replace voting altogether (rather than swapping out the specific ways of casting ballots). Atwood's Discourse is nice, but it's still just a forum for talking rather than a system for making decisions.