Oh, well "they are generally better" would be the simple version.
E.g. if you're drawing on a diverse set of people you'll get a more informed & balanced decision (diversity trumps specialised expertise).
And where people are involved in making decisions about their own community, those decisions will have much larger public buy-in - not only from the participants but from the public that watches the process.
Have been reading some thoughts about how the next society might be modeled after a mycelial network with nodes maxed out around the Dunbar number. Much food for thought.
Yes, our salvation is lies in 'soil chemistry'. (This has not sunk in anywhere. We remain obsessed with individual mushrooms.)
I've always liked the Dunbar Number idea - it seems about right to me, & is perfectly consonant with Third Draft Democracy if that's the way the demos wants to do it.
Thanks Gene, very interesting.
Regulatory & legislative capture indeed lie upstream of most of our problems.
(I just wrote a book about this.)
What's the title?
The Mechanics of Changing the World: Political Architecture to Roll Back State & Corporate Power.
Fascinating, pondering how deliberative democracy's final decisions actually vary from majority rule. Any thoughts?
Oh, well "they are generally better" would be the simple version.
E.g. if you're drawing on a diverse set of people you'll get a more informed & balanced decision (diversity trumps specialised expertise).
And where people are involved in making decisions about their own community, those decisions will have much larger public buy-in - not only from the participants but from the public that watches the process.
Have been reading some thoughts about how the next society might be modeled after a mycelial network with nodes maxed out around the Dunbar number. Much food for thought.
Thanks Gene - yes I noted your mycology example.
Yes, our salvation is lies in 'soil chemistry'. (This has not sunk in anywhere. We remain obsessed with individual mushrooms.)
I've always liked the Dunbar Number idea - it seems about right to me, & is perfectly consonant with Third Draft Democracy if that's the way the demos wants to do it.
Gene, your analysis targets are hitting the core of our dilemma and despair. Keep trucking!! Quite effective.
Appreciate the feedback.