From: Hagbard Celine (hagbard@ix.netcom.com)
Date: Sun Jun 22 1997 - 15:50:21 MDT
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.
-- Hagbard Celine Not a clerk of the nostalgia of the declining ruling class.
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