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"Imagine that we’ve all – all of us, all of society – landed on some alien
planet, and we have to form a government: clean slate. We don’t have any legacy
systems from the U.S. or any other country. We don’t have any special or unique
interests to perturb our thinking.
How would we govern ourselves?
It’s unlikely that we would use the systems we have today. The modern
representative democracy was the best form of government that mid-18th-century
technology could conceive of. The 21st century is a different place
scientifically, technically and socially.
For example, the mid-18th-century democracies were designed under the
assumption that both travel and communications were hard. Does it still make
sense for all of us living in the same place to organize every few years and
choose one of us to go to a big room far away and create laws in our name?"
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
