From: Rafal Smigrodzki (rafal@smigrodzki.org)
Date: Wed May 28 2003 - 14:58:19 MDT
Lee Crocker wrote:
>> (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.
### Yes, we could eventually get to the non-state by small steps. The
prohibition of delegation of legislative authority is important to prevent
the formation of such bodies like EPA, or OSHA, which through the decisions
of career bureaucrats are rewriting the landscape of America. The volume of
low-quality, almost unaccountable law produced by these and similar entities
exceeds the law produced by people's representatives (such as they might be)
by a factor of 100, I heard, at least as measured by number of pages in the
Federal Register.
Rafal
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