Radikaler Vorschlag: Repräsentantion führt zu Korruption, also sollten wir repräsentative Systeme durch direktdemokratische ersetzen. Auf die Weise sind nicht einzelne schlauer als der Rest.

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*alle Menschen

Aber nein, bei den ganzen individualsierten Leistungen wollte man nur Geld rauswerfen, hat sich sonst keiner Gedanken drüber gemacht! /s

I understand exactly what you mean.

But at the same time, I also believe that the inherent problem with our representative democracies is this: Voters are asked about EVERY issue all at once every four years and then vote for ONE representative party. So, in the end, everyone ends up voting on a whole bunch of issues that neither interest nor affect them. Worse still: when checks and balances are undermined, as is currently the case, the elected representatives can do whatever they want for four years.

In the best-case scenario, the majority of today’s voters inform themselves about the current campaign promises and forecasts a few weeks before the election and then lose interest again for four years. Or, to put it another way, the system actually provokes the “I don’t do politics” attitude among a majority of voters.

However, if the effects of their own decisions were transparent and immediate, I believe there would be a greater willingness to actually inform themselves.

And on the topic of demagoguery and populism: If people had the opportunity to vote against immigration (even if you don’t agree with that position) without undermining democracy through a corrupt bunch of politicians, we as a society would still be better off than in the current situation, where emotionally charged issues are used to make dictators and shitty politics palatable to people.

That’s a framework for a technocracy. The question here was for a blueprint for an anarchist society.

And if we take your line of thinking further: At what point do you stop denying people the right to vote?

Should only those in a particular industry have a say when it comes to regulating that industry? In that case, issues like environmental and consumer protection would become unenforceable… because why would a CEO or worker care about the impact their own actions have on the rest of society if regulation can be framed as a threat to their own job?

I would argue that neither you nor most other people like making bad decisions, right?

If, after the vote, there’s no representative—aka “those up there”—to blame for your own bad decision, that probably sets off a learning process where you either do better research next time or, if you’re too unsure or not interested in the topic, stay out of it and leave the choice to people who think they know more about it.

Without fixed terms, you can vote again in six months if you realize that your decision isn’t solving the problem and enough other people feel the same way… whereas now you have to rely on a representative to make decisions in your best interest (and not in the interest of their own wallet), and, if the decision turns out to be bad for you, hope that another government will revisit the law in 20 years.

You may as well just form government by having your largest 500 companies nominate a representative from their board.

That’s basically the case right now, so it wouldn’t even constitute a deterioration?

In the system I’ve proposed, however, this would only work until enough resistance to corporate practices builds up because the business model harms the majority. Since there are no legislative terms, such practices could be stopped more quickly than in today’s system, where industry simply buys off the newly elected representatives and can then carry on as before for another four years…

Thank you!

That’s my point.

I basically agree with you.

However, the slowness of paper-based administration is the reason why we’ve ended up with the (increasingly) poor solution of representative systems and the corruption that goes hand in hand with them.

In an age where fake news and propaganda spread in real time, I believe our democracies must also find a way to react more quickly… The internet allows anyone to communicate with anyone else in real time; in my opinion, it’s time to use this FOR rather than AGAINST our societies.

f that is the premise, then any form of anarchist society is obsolete.

I was responding here to a question about a blueprint for an anarchist social order. That presupposes a reasonably positive view of human nature… which, in my opinion, is actually the more realistic one.

Otherwise, we’ll always need an authoritarian system that patronizes “the stupid people” and looks after them… a narrative that is used to justify domination over others and is deeply rooted in our societies today.

Open source, direct internet democracy.

Let anyone vote on anything basically.

My hope is voters tend to vote on matters relevant to them providing initative to get/beeing informed on the matter they vote on.

I see representative systems as root of corruption so my solution calls for a system with direct decisions without political representatives.

Dann las ma weiter auf fossile setzen, wa? /s

…derweil baut China seinen Vorteil bei elektrischen Antrieben und Batterietechnik aus.

Trivia: The term “rocket-propelled grenade” is a backronym derived from Russian. RPG (also the name of the bazooka seen in the meme, originally manufactured in the Soviet Union) stands for “ruchnoy protivotankovy granatomyot,” which literally translates to “hand-held anti-tank grenade launcher”—a slightly more precise description than the general English term.

Trump seized oil in Venezuela (I’m pretty sure he and his entourage have their hands in that.) and now he’s driving up the oil prices with what seems like a completely idiotic declaration of war… stupid for Americans and the rest of the world, but for him and his corrupt bunch, things are going just great, I’d wager

Left out the part where the US/Israel bombed Iran TWICE during ongoing negotiations. Read earlier that the draft for an UN security council resolution demands Iran to go ,with good faith" into negotiations with US/Israel… who came up with this, did they miss the last two rounds of negotiation-bombing?

,Aber die Innenstädte/ deutschen Unternehmen!1!!11!"

…kauft fast ausschließlich bei Amazon.

Machste halt auch nix.

Green technologies and energy supply options are way more affordable and abundant today compared to the last oil fiaskos… many consumers and companies will start switching this time bringing demand down in the long run especially if supplies should stay reduced for a proplonged time.

I don’t know the answer but citrus propagation is a very interesting topic! Thank you for the post… reminded me I intended to do something similar this spring before I forgot about it ^^’

I think he has a verry good point there. Imho many people, unlike their parents/ gradparents, have forgotten how brutal and unraveling war is and how much suffering it brings upon others which lose dear family members and/or their health.

This might be largely due to mass media showing only piles of rubble and not the human misery underneath and infront of it because it’s deemed ,to upsetting" for the broad public. But that misery is on of the core points why we once intended to end all wars. There are exceptions of course (like some well made documentaries) but one has to actually search for them and expose oneself willingly… when in reality the matter should concern each and every one of us.

Banning things for teenagers has always worked really well… /s

I know that for land mines this is true.

However it’d be interesting to know if its also possible for naval mines… which are a few magnitudes bigger and also usually rely on an anker (ofter heavy) to stay in position.

Given the high weight I’m sceptical if a naval minefield can be achieved by missle transport.