From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lee@piclab.com)
Date: Tue May 27 2003 - 16:44:33 MDT
> (Rafal Smigrodzki <rafal@smigrodzki.org>):
> William Wiser wrote:
> > Lee Daniel Crocker wrote:
> >
> >> Since when is democracy an Extropian principle, or even a worthy
> >> goal? Extropy seeks free and open society; if something like
> >> democracy supports that goal, then it might be useful. But if it
> >> doesn't--and personally, I think democracy actively opposes that
> >> goal--then to hell with it. We can, and should, do better.
> >
> > What would you suggest instead of democracy?
> >
> > I ask this as someone who sort of agrees with you but has not figured
> > out what sort of system I would support.
>
> ### Try the non-territorial bicameral supermajoritarian IQ-weighed demarchy
> with automatic sunset laws, vernier voting, and with a prohibition of
> delegation of legislative authority. These are my pet ideas for the best
> political system, and if you are sufficiently intrigued, you can find the
> details in my posts to ExI and wta-talk over the past two years.
Philosophically I'm more a Friedmanite anarcho-capitalist myself, but
I'm certainly willing to entertain incremental means of getting from
here to there, and many of your suggestions may well be improvements
on the the present system.
-- Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lee/> "All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past, are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC
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