[P2P-F] Fwd: Ancient Athens didn't have politicians. Is there a lesson for us?

[Darren]

A few of recent (ish) web resources I have found interesting and I think 
would feed nicely into this discussion

posted recently on this list by Dante

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HHhGKgYUGY&list=UU7DXwgSFOgXkKQwEKY2GTnQ&index=1

The future of democracy (written by a mathematician)
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/speroni20120427

extensive criticisms of representative and direct democracy systems as 
they are currently understood (think this may have been previously 
blogged on P2PFoundation)
https://georgiebc.wordpress.com/2012/11/05/the-problems-with-democracy-2/