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Sorry Dog that sounds terrifying to me, I mean I know some folks that if they were self governing would end up blowing up the world (if only an accident while the were stoned) People have proven we can't govern ourselves (individually) for millenia,
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Well, I'm not suggesting that every individual should have their own set of nuclear launch codes. Neither am I suggesting an entirely unnaccountable anarchy. I'm just saying that some day we will have the technology to "cut out the middle man" when it comes to politics. As tech makes it easier and easier to put people in touch with one another on a massive scale, we won't need the (self-serving) institutions that currently (pretend to) represent us, because we will be able to represent ourselves directly. And I'm not suggesting a simple Athenian democracy be electronic vote either because that ways lies stagnation by committee on a scale never before imagined.
Instead it would be something far more subtle and more organic in which each person represents themself and has a voice, and in which no single person or Groups can dictate to others, but in which large-scale decisions can made and acted upon in a moderately efficient manner with all the checks, balances and stability that people have wished for elsewhere in this thread. I think the technology will soon be here, although the will (as always) will be a few centuries behind. I just have a gut feeling that that is the way things will eventually go. Again, I'm being vague, but if I had all the details worked out I would be a lot cleverer than what I is.