<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">One of the few serious alternatives to democracy that I’ve considered might work is a system of Representative Consensus. A council of twelve, rather like a jury, is chosen by random selection from the pool of eligible citizens, and they perform as the Executive, discussing decisions and coming to a conclusion by consensus. In rare cases where consensus could not be reached, the entire council would be re-drawn. (So it would be like the Ultimate Game, in that those groups who could not reach a compromise would be punished.)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This still would work best if power were devolved as much as possible, on as many issues as possible, to the most localized form of governance possible. (Federation should be a real thing, not just of states but of counties within states and cities within counties). </div><br class=""><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Dec 15, 2015, at 11:09 PM, Dan TheBookMan <<a href="mailto:danust2012@gmail.com" class="">danust2012@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div dir="auto" class=""><div class="">On Dec 15, 2015, at 5:16 PM, Tara Maya <<a href="mailto:tara@taramayastales.com" class="">tara@taramayastales.com</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div class="">I’ll be honest: a drunken wombat could run a nation better than I.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">That is not to say that I don’t know exactly what’s wrong with the world (of course I do), but only that I admit I don’t know how to fix it.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">However, I’d gladly take the role of National Whining About Things, if it came with a stupendously fat salary and tenure.</div></div></blockquote><br class=""><div class=""><div style="line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class="">You're reminding me of how random stock picks often outperform over the long term ones chosen by some rigorous method or some hotshot fund manager.</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class="">Regards,</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><div style="line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class="">Dan</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class=""> Sample my Kindle books via:</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;" class=""><a href="http://author.to/DanUst" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class=""><font class="">http://author.to/DanUst</font></a></div></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br class="">extropy-chat mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" class="">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a><br class="">http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat<br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>