RE: Political systems (was Re: Reality bites)

From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue May 27 2003 - 17:22:05 MDT

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    --- Rafal Smigrodzki <rafal@smigrodzki.org> wrote:
    > 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.

    Sounds good. The only thing I'd add would be mandatory naked news
    anchors... oh, and capital punishment/legalized duelling for violating
    oaths of office.

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    Mike Lorrey
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