Mark Grant wrote: > > On Sat, 21 Jun 1997, Abraham Moses Genen wrote: > > > Is it possible that rather than reject democracy as a system we can > > learn to adapt the prevailing system to provide for full participation? > > The problems with dumbocracy are fundamental, and cannot be corrected; > the basic idea is that a small group of badly informed people hundreds or > thousands of miles away are better qualified to judge situations than > those who are directly involved. All that 'full participation' will do is > to give this judgement power to millions of badly informed people rather > than hundreds. Personally I think that's much worse.
So then the problems with dumbocracy can be corrected. Keep all people
well-informed.
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Hagbard Celine
Not a clerk of the nostalgia of the declining ruling class.