Most people don't know what they're doing or don't possess enough knowledge to take good decisions on most subjects. Democracy is a stupid ruling scheme.
I understand the basis of democracy, but you can't ask a lumberjack to legislate deforestation.
I understand the basis of democracy, but you can't ask a lumberjack to legislate deforestation.
Could it be that representative democracy produces part of the political disinterest and lack of knowledge?
I think there's at least enough evidence from other areas (broadly wisdom of the crowds) + technology is good enough these days to quickly vote on stuff to invest in more direct alternatives.
The big problem with technocratic approaches like Democracy OS or the pirate parties' liquid democracy is the amount of the population you exclude by introducing this technological barrier to political participation for e.g. old people. But as empirics trump reasoning (quite in the spirit of Popper), I hereby make the case that the net party won't have an economically compelling pension concept or health care plan for the elderly in Argentina within the next 10 years. Now we just have to wait and see ;)
I would rather be governed by a few intellectuals than by a stupid majority.