If the townspeople generally all had the same intention, elections wouldn’t mean more than which identical mental cog would have the power and responsibility to execute everyone’s identical intention.
If you don’t start from the presumption of different intentions, you’re not talking politics in any meaningful way.
I’ve been listening to criticism and have reworded it quite a bit to avoid such easily misunderstood statements.
At any rate you reason from “If the townspeople generally all had the same intention”
(a phrase that could very well mean only that they generally all believe democracy is the best way to go, all things considered, and they see some hope of the experiment demonstrating something useful)
to “which identical mental cog would have the power and responsibility to execute everyone’s identical intention.”
If the townspeople generally all had the same intention, elections wouldn’t mean more than which identical mental cog would have the power and responsibility to execute everyone’s identical intention.
If you don’t start from the presumption of different intentions, you’re not talking politics in any meaningful way.
I’ve been listening to criticism and have reworded it quite a bit to avoid such easily misunderstood statements.
At any rate you reason from “If the townspeople generally all had the same intention”
(a phrase that could very well mean only that they generally all believe democracy is the best way to go, all things considered, and they see some hope of the experiment demonstrating something useful)
to “which identical mental cog would have the power and responsibility to execute everyone’s identical intention.”
You still haven’t spoke about how you bootstrap power and who control the whole process.
I have no intention of bootstrapping power or of anyone, least of all me, controlling the whole process.