Direct democracy

[Martin Gustavsson]

If you put "consensus" on a pedestal you will in fact be in favor of
minority rule. Majority rule is the less evil if it first strives for a
relative consensus. Striving for consensus in absurdum is just plain
stupidity and disables democracy.

2008/2/29, Michael Allan <mike at zelea.com>:
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> /pd wrote:
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> > I'll head back to the drawing board wrt to community. I remember the
> > issue about the the US. GOV rendering a decesion  about the 10
> > commandants artifact on one of their judicial doorsteps..there was
> > some major discussions about that one. Need to digg  back to find i.
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> Only 5 or 6 centuries. ;) It's actually an interesting topic, /pd, as
> I'm just learning.  For instance, the influence of religion on the
> structure of modern society, including state structures (like those
> inhabited by the US government, and built right into their doorsteps,
> so to speak), was investigated by this fellow:
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>   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Weber
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> > ==>> "that people don't understand the social implications of *broad
> > consensus*, not even in the political sphere.  And that's the
> > conceptual key."
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> > How are you defining "social implications" and what is "broad
> > consensus" ?
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> 'Consensus' means general agreement.  By 'broad consensus' I mean
> consensus on a large scale, like extending across an entire town,
> region, or nation.
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> By social implications, I mean the effect that such consensus will
> have on society.  Specifically - What happens when a town's community
> starts reaching consensus, all by itself, on particular issues of
> concern to it?  How does that play out in the town's politics?  How
> does it play out in the community, itself?  And so forth.
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> These are important questions, because communities will soon have the
> ability (with new social media, such as Votorola) to form consensus on
> any issue of concern to them.  And they won't, I guess, be hestitating
> to use that ability.
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> --
> Michael Allan
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> http://zelea.com/
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