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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Acknowledging that democracy as glorified sortition is not actually in any way better than sortition is not an argument against democracy; it is an argument for creating the circumstances in which an active citizenry meaningfully and knowledgeably participates in the civic life of their polity. It's not about 'weighting' or making suffrage exclusive, it's about creating a society in which good citizenship is enabled and valued by the institutions of society.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

creating the circumstances in which an active citizenry meaningfully and knowledgeably participates in the civic life of their polity

Why stop there? If your project requires an improved humanity to work, why not just improve us until we don't need governance?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

You do realize that an educated citizenry is not some superhuman impossible feat for our genetic code, right