In our current system, no individual should be able to acquire enough influence that they can dictate anything about others lives.
Humans are fallible. Any council can be corrupted or dominated slowly, especially as long as currency and power corrupts and hierarchies can exist. Democratic socialism is a utopian idea of a fallible system, when what you are really asking for is the abolishment of corruption, prejudice and greed itself, the cancers that ruin otherwise harmonious societies.
Until a form of government arises that rewards the participant for seeking purpose rather than fame or reward, we’ll just be replacing fractured systems, destined to fail, over and over and over again.
but, per my own personal bias, I don’t believe people are inherently good enough to act that way. I believe we will destroy ourselves before we ever get there. The individuals that would dominate the next system of government will be the ones holding the pen to craft it, so it goes…
The Baha’is have a system that kinda works like that. They don’t have clergy, the have democratically elected spiritual assemblys. The rule is that no one that wants the position can have it. The communities elect people that have proven they can lead with humility.
I think we would do well with elections based sortition.
For any given elected position, you select 12 candidates at random from among the whole population. You give them a chance to decline the run if they want. If they decline to run, then you draw more names until you get 12 candidates. You then run an election with those 12 people on the ballot.
You essentially replace the primary process with a random lottery. With a pool of 12 candidates, it would be very rare to not have some representation among both the left and right for any given election. And people would still get to choose the final winner. But the real sociopaths, the people who want power above all else, who will sell their souls for it? They’re simply extremely unlikely to win the lottery to become a candidate.
In our current system, no individual should be able to acquire enough influence that they can dictate anything about others lives.
Humans are fallible. Any council can be corrupted or dominated slowly, especially as long as currency and power corrupts and hierarchies can exist. Democratic socialism is a utopian idea of a fallible system, when what you are really asking for is the abolishment of corruption, prejudice and greed itself, the cancers that ruin otherwise harmonious societies.
Until a form of government arises that rewards the participant for seeking purpose rather than fame or reward, we’ll just be replacing fractured systems, destined to fail, over and over and over again.
but, per my own personal bias, I don’t believe people are inherently good enough to act that way. I believe we will destroy ourselves before we ever get there. The individuals that would dominate the next system of government will be the ones holding the pen to craft it, so it goes…
The Baha’is have a system that kinda works like that. They don’t have clergy, the have democratically elected spiritual assemblys. The rule is that no one that wants the position can have it. The communities elect people that have proven they can lead with humility.
I think we would do well with elections based sortition.
For any given elected position, you select 12 candidates at random from among the whole population. You give them a chance to decline the run if they want. If they decline to run, then you draw more names until you get 12 candidates. You then run an election with those 12 people on the ballot.
You essentially replace the primary process with a random lottery. With a pool of 12 candidates, it would be very rare to not have some representation among both the left and right for any given election. And people would still get to choose the final winner. But the real sociopaths, the people who want power above all else, who will sell their souls for it? They’re simply extremely unlikely to win the lottery to become a candidate.