I have no respect for anyone who still believes in democracy. Like talking to a child whose heart is closed. Dangerous
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And instead?
Accountability instead.
That's the magic word I think. There's no skin in the game for politicians who take decisions that affect a huge number of the population Even if there are a large number of deaths involved, there's no accountability.
A pilot has skin in the game. A politician has zero. It's like remotely controlling a full airplane while at the same time taking a shower. Taking the most interest in themselves while taking on full risk on others.
Exactly. Skin in the game solves this. Imagine a system of government where anyone looking to rule knows that if they fuck up, there are deir consequences to them.
Defined?
A couple of years ago I would not have understood what you mean. But I have become wiser. (Hans-Hermann Hoppe writes about the dangers that comes with democracy).
If you don't do your own jurisprudence, then you can't be held responsible. Just like a child, who thinks you disappeared when they covered their eyes.
Imagine having no internal concept of morality. That is 40% of the population. Apparently they don't have internal dialogue at all. I can't comprehend it but I have seen it too many times to not believe it.
The alternative might be to have a decentralised system where each and every neighbour govern itself with some guidance from cities, less influence from the state, and even less intervention from the federal level. Indonesia is the closest thing to this system on a large scale.
That was Libya. They had that exact system.
The "remaking of Libyan society" contained in Gaddafi's ideological visions began to be put into practice formally in 1973, with a cultural revolution. This revolution was designed to create bureaucratic efficiency, public interest and participation in the subnational governmental system, and national political coordination. In an attempt to instill revolutionary fervor into his compatriots and to involve large numbers of them in political affairs, Gaddafi urged them to challenge traditional authority and to take over and run government organs themselves. The instrument for doing this was the people's committee. Within a few months, such committees were found all across Libya. They were functionally and geographically based, and eventually became responsible for local and regional administration.
People's committees were established in such widely divergent organizations as universities, private business firms, government bureaucracies, and the broadcast media. Geographically based committees were formed at the governorate, municipal, and zone (lowest) levels. Seats on the people's committees at the zone level were filled by direct popular election; members so elected could then be selected for service at higher levels. By mid-1973 estimates of the number of people's committees ranged above 2,000. In the scope of their administrative and regulatory tasks and the method of their members' selection, the people's committees purportedly embodied the concept of direct democracy that Gaddafi propounded in the first volume of The Green Book, which appeared in 1976. The same concept lay behind proposals to create a new political structure composed of "people's congresses". The centerpiece of the new system was the General People's Congress (GPC), a national representative body intended to replace the RCC.
It might have been in theory, but there was almost zero freedom in Libya.
U believe this? Where ya hear it bbc ?
No, I know people who had direct personal experience with what was actually going on there not what the media says good or bad.
I understand he was against the West but he was no angel.
Yeah I heard the same line from syrians saying how evil Bashar is. I slapped them and so should you. Dude lived in a tent and made that place a paradise, he was an angel by comparison.
There was certainly a lot of money flowing around in Libya then. Still no freedom and tyranny was a deal breaker for me.
*neighbourhood
Democracy as the Greeks intended it works!
As it is now is an aberration, people just choose their owners, have no sayong on the decisions the owners make.
Ray, have you summarised your thoughts on our realm anywhere? I always see you posting semi-cryptic messages about this and that being bullshit, and I do agree, but I have never seen you put your views down in their entirety anywhere, and I would love to know what you think.
Our realm ? What do u mean?