The first section prompted me to want to share this piece by David Chapman, “The Court of Values and the Bureau of Boringness”, which semi-satirically suggests splitting democracy into two types of vote, of which each citizen must pick one in any given election. One actually makes policy for roads and industry and so on, the other makes claims about some cultural issue. The idea is that this would allow the crazy to not get in the way of getting enough attention on the decisions that are settled enough to be non-controversial but not actually precisely answered. Not likely to work as described, but I’ve found it inspirational for thinking about how we might be more sane collectively while having pockets of crazy.
The first section prompted me to want to share this piece by David Chapman, “The Court of Values and the Bureau of Boringness”, which semi-satirically suggests splitting democracy into two types of vote, of which each citizen must pick one in any given election. One actually makes policy for roads and industry and so on, the other makes claims about some cultural issue. The idea is that this would allow the crazy to not get in the way of getting enough attention on the decisions that are settled enough to be non-controversial but not actually precisely answered. Not likely to work as described, but I’ve found it inspirational for thinking about how we might be more sane collectively while having pockets of crazy.