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

Tue Jan 15 14:12:32 CET 2013

......continued from my last post below

I was doing a lot of thinking about edemocracy systems a few years back
and, to overcome problems with the amount of time/attention that anyone
can give to governance,  came up with the idea of having your
representative being the individuals who had voted the most similar to
you in the past (identified through an encrypted computer facilitated
open source voting system ?).  I now see that this could also avoid the
problem of charismatic/well presented people with bad ideas becoming the
representatives of others (a problem identified in all the links I
posted in my previous mail). I also envisages notifications about how
your votes were being cast (also encrypted) with some time period to
choose different before they were fixed,

I wonder if such a system would see scary results?? (mob mentality)

The system whereby people get informed would also need
attention.  I'm thinking of large media controller/owner
led agendas.

On 14/01/2013 23:54, Darren wrote:
> 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/
>
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