ouphhhh... I, too, usually try to stay away from politics and such, it's way too easy to get into heated arguments with good hearted people over such topics but I've just got so much to say here... I don't even know where to start!

I think I had already lost my faith in democracy many many years ago. The fact that democratic "free" nations ultimately compete on a globally anarchist marketplace that's governed by rules of economy and force alone puts any desires of the "free citizens" aside. But at this point I still thought "democracy" was the best way to organize a positively productive society without giving up the freedom of the individual.

As the years passed and Idiocracy slowly morphed from a funny sci-fi movie into a sarcastic social documentary it slowly dawned on me that the masses simply aren't fit to make wise decisions. I guess at this point I might have been a friend of the education-before-a-voting-license-exam concept, allthough I might as well have welcomed a materialist-objectively-neutral-global-technocracy-idea such as the venus project.

But let's stay on the topic of voting and democracy. Who will write the educational material and who will create those exams?! Isn't democracy built on just that and hasn't education devolved into indoctrination just because of that?!

I used to contemplate the idea of a greek-model democracy where the democratic representatives are called into duty randomly and are elected out and shamed when they fail to perform, at least that would keep corrupt career politicians at bay... but politics would still be prone to lobbying and a mislead public focus.

Looking back at the very recent couple of years it has become so obvious how easily the democratic body of free citizens will be lead by constructed fear, passive anxiety and fake desires... not just the masses, also the educated and good hearted, so easily persuaded to not ask too many questions and do what is "morally just"...

I guess what I am trying to say is that democracy in an insulated and divided world is doomed. Adding another centralized voting-certification layer will just make it even worse and even easier to manipulate by the already powerful.

A decentralized voluntary anarchy of autonomous communities might be good... but that's hardly compatible with the level of technological complexity we have already achieved.

Honestly, lately, I am becoming friendly to the idea of monarchy. I know... that sounds ridiculous.

Monarchy?!

But if you think about it, a single emporer, in control for an entire lifetime, to pass on their power to their own offspring... if you manage to get a single wise person to reign, they'll have a much deeper intrinsic motivation to do what's best for his people and country, to help them flourish, and to do so sustainably in order to pass on a thriving nation to his next of kin...

I think it's much more likely to get such a "good king" than ever getting "good politicians" in power for long enough to change anything substantial.

I dunno man...

eventually the problem will probably fix itself anyway?!?