Beautiful visualization (ancient cathedrals letting in light). The idea of pulling from a wide spectrum of people is excellent. Not just politicians (law makers), but also the young and the old.
This is a beautiful idea but how have the other groups in other parts of the world managed to get off the ground? How do we get media attention and "air time" if the media is serving as a propaganda machine pushing the agenda we are hoping to break?
One problem I've considered is the concept that the USA has grown "too large". People have lost touch with each other. Which is possibly made worse by the "information age" and communication in sound bites rather than long conversations over sitting down to some tea and talking.
These are some interesting ideas. I’ve often wondered if we’d be better served by using computer random computer generated maps using set criteria for redistricting (See Dr. Sam Wang’s work at the Princeton Gerrymandering Project), and then simply selecting representatives at random, with a large legislative body as in this article. Statistically, over time the overall representation should follow the actual preferences of a district better than voting. Kinda like jury duty.
Very creative. The random selection of willing people with some representative calculation can be quite appealing. This would be more engaging than jury duty in so many ways.
I like the idea of citizen assemblies/congresses. It would be something that we would want to test out first, but I don’t see any obvious drawbacks to cutting out the middlemen of elected officials.
Personally, I think sortition with assembly sizes of 1000+ individuals would give us sufficient cognitive diversity to improve decision making. To aggregate the collective will of the people, quadratic voting seems like a reasonable mechanism.
I always appreciate your feedback. The running of citizens' assemblies that are non-binding offers the chance to test the concept. Using this dynamic to sponsor candidates is a novel twist--trying to create legislation in advance of arriving in elected office. It's a concept in blueprint at this point. Elections tend toward oligarchy. Sortition preserves representative democracy. Hopefully, we can move toward a brighter future with various reforms.
Yes, the problem always lies in how we craft legislation. Getting the votes together is easy enough...but can the "crowd" really write the laws? Something I struggle with.
Beautiful visualization (ancient cathedrals letting in light). The idea of pulling from a wide spectrum of people is excellent. Not just politicians (law makers), but also the young and the old.
This is a beautiful idea but how have the other groups in other parts of the world managed to get off the ground? How do we get media attention and "air time" if the media is serving as a propaganda machine pushing the agenda we are hoping to break?
One problem I've considered is the concept that the USA has grown "too large". People have lost touch with each other. Which is possibly made worse by the "information age" and communication in sound bites rather than long conversations over sitting down to some tea and talking.
These are some interesting ideas. I’ve often wondered if we’d be better served by using computer random computer generated maps using set criteria for redistricting (See Dr. Sam Wang’s work at the Princeton Gerrymandering Project), and then simply selecting representatives at random, with a large legislative body as in this article. Statistically, over time the overall representation should follow the actual preferences of a district better than voting. Kinda like jury duty.
Very creative. The random selection of willing people with some representative calculation can be quite appealing. This would be more engaging than jury duty in so many ways.
I like the idea of citizen assemblies/congresses. It would be something that we would want to test out first, but I don’t see any obvious drawbacks to cutting out the middlemen of elected officials.
I suggested something similar here: https://www.lianeon.org/p/imagining-our-martian-government
Personally, I think sortition with assembly sizes of 1000+ individuals would give us sufficient cognitive diversity to improve decision making. To aggregate the collective will of the people, quadratic voting seems like a reasonable mechanism.
I always appreciate your feedback. The running of citizens' assemblies that are non-binding offers the chance to test the concept. Using this dynamic to sponsor candidates is a novel twist--trying to create legislation in advance of arriving in elected office. It's a concept in blueprint at this point. Elections tend toward oligarchy. Sortition preserves representative democracy. Hopefully, we can move toward a brighter future with various reforms.
Yes, the problem always lies in how we craft legislation. Getting the votes together is easy enough...but can the "crowd" really write the laws? Something I struggle with.