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Here's what i say: Good. Bring it. I want our collective ignorance to shine, so we can confront it head-on as the destructive force that it is. Representative

by patcon 12y ago

Here's what i say: Good. Bring it. I want our collective ignorance to shine, so we can confront it head-on as the destructive force that it is. Representative democracy was put in place when regular people were presumably MUCH more ignorant. And giving citizens power through proxy likely spurred us to become more aware as citizenry. But I imagine it was pretty jarring at first. Delegative democracy puts us in uncomfortable territory yet again, and I think that's a good thing.

3rd3 12y ago
It seems however that informing is generally slower than populismusm, so there might be an increased probability that things go wild. That might actually be an advantage of the slowness of current democracies. Maybe one could add some sort of artificial deceleration and decentralization mechanism to a Liquid Democracy to counteract this problem.
haberman 12y ago
> I want our collective ignorance to shine Ok, I present to you: Anti-vax: http://www.theverge.com/2013/10/21/4767530/vaccine-deniers-inside-the-dumb-dangerous-new-fad http://www.theverge.com/2013/10/21/4767530/vaccine-deniers-i... Climate change denial: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_denial http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_denial Anti-GMO: http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2012/09/are_gmo_foods_safe_opponents_are_skewing_the_science_to_scare_people_.html http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/201... Creation Science: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creation_science http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creation_science > so we can confront it head-on as the destructive force that it is. That hasn't been working so well...
- patcon 12y ago
  I find none of those overly concerning in practice, at least not to the degree that they reflect poorly on delegative democracy. - http://www.gallup.com/poll/168620/one-four-solidly-skeptical-global-warming.aspx http://www.gallup.com/poll/168620/one-four-solidly-skeptical... - http://www.harrisinteractive.com/NewsRoom/HarrisPolls/tabid/447/mid/1508/articleId/1483/ctl/ReadCustom%20Default/Default.aspx http://www.harrisinteractive.com/NewsRoom/HarrisPolls/tabid/... - http://www.gallup.com/poll/21814/evolution-creationism-intelligent-design.aspx http://www.gallup.com/poll/21814/evolution-creationism-intel...

by patcon 12y ago

3rd3 12y ago

It seems however that informing is generally slower than populismusm, so there might be an increased probability that things go wild. That might actually be an advantage of the slowness of current democracies. Maybe one could add some sort of artificial deceleration and decentralization mechanism to a Liquid Democracy to counteract this problem.

haberman 12y ago

> I want our collective ignorance to shine Ok, I present to you: Anti-vax: http://www.theverge.com/2013/10/21/4767530/vaccine-deniers-inside-the-dumb-dangerous-new-fad http://www.theverge.com/2013/10/21/4767530/vaccine-deniers-i... Climate change denial: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_denial http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_denial Anti-GMO: http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2012/09/are_gmo_foods_safe_opponents_are_skewing_the_science_to_scare_people_.html http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/201... Creation Science: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creation_science http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creation_science > so we can confront it head-on as the destructive force that it is. That hasn't been working so well...

patcon 12y ago
I find none of those overly concerning in practice, at least not to the degree that they reflect poorly on delegative democracy. - http://www.gallup.com/poll/168620/one-four-solidly-skeptical-global-warming.aspx http://www.gallup.com/poll/168620/one-four-solidly-skeptical... - http://www.harrisinteractive.com/NewsRoom/HarrisPolls/tabid/447/mid/1508/articleId/1483/ctl/ReadCustom%20Default/Default.aspx http://www.harrisinteractive.com/NewsRoom/HarrisPolls/tabid/... - http://www.gallup.com/poll/21814/evolution-creationism-intelligent-design.aspx http://www.gallup.com/poll/21814/evolution-creationism-intel...