[89298] in Cypherpunks
Re: democracy?! (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Schear)
Sun Nov 2 16:16:20 1997
In-Reply-To: <199711012333.RAA01954@einstein.ssz.com>
Date: Sat, 1 Nov 1997 19:55:02 -0800
To: Jim Choate <ravage@ssz.com>,
cypherpunks@ssz.com (Cypherpunks Distributed Remailer),
Adam Back <aba@dcs.ex.ac.uk>
From: Steve Schear <azur@netcom.com>
Reply-To: Steve Schear <azur@netcom.com>
>> (perhaps old Iceland would be a suitable anarchy
>> to consider as a comparison).
>
>If it's so damn good how come it doesn't exist anymore? If it provided such
>a superior governmental system providing the maximum return on investment
>why did it go away? Why did they instead elect to go with a king? Futher,
>explain how such an anarchic system can be expanded without demonstrating
>the exact same sorts of scaling problems consensual democracies such as
>ancient Greek ran into? It's one thing to rule a few 10's of thousands of
>people who are related, share world-models and have limited resources and
>quite another to rule 4+ Billion people who speak hundreds if not thousands
>of languages and concommittent cultural beliefs?
So, a solution is to encourage (e.g., through technological means) the
break-up of nation-states into smaller geo-political groupings.
--Steve
