Democracy, n.:
A government of the masses. Authority derived through mass
meeting or any other form of direct expression. Results in mobocracy.
Attitude toward property is communistic… negating property rights.
Attitude toward law is that the will of the majority shall regulate,
whether it is based upon deliberation or governed by passion,
prejudice, and impulse, without restraint or regard to consequences.
Result is demagogism, license, agitation, discontent, anarchy.
— U. S. Army Training Manual No. 2000-25 (1928-1932),
since withdrawn.
Uncategorized
Democracy, government, politics
This is the coolest idea since sliced bread. I kid not. I am referring to the concept of seasteading. The idea behind this is to create a moveable, self-sustaining and floating platform large enough to one day create a sovereign nation, or two, or many. This will bring the opportunity to rapidly and more fluidly experiment with different forms of government and to quickly make a decision to “fork”, just like in open source software, if one or a group of people don’t like the government of a platform.
http://seasteading.org/
Economics, Political
government, seasteading
Gee, I wonder why a intergovernmental panel of people would politicize such an important thing such as what to do about climate change? Maybe, oh I know!!!, it’s because they’re made up of governments! And why wouldn’t these people want government to take care of climate change; it’s good job security!
Here’s a good opinion piece.
Political
Cato, climate change, government
