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OptimusPrime 1 week ago
Don’t care about “ideologies”. What matters is society’s direction of control: top-to-bottom or bottom-to-top. “Direct democracy” seems to be one of the best approaches for the “bottom-to-top” model. It should confer fair playground for everyone by its intrinsic decentralised nature and a fair distribution of wealth based on society’s needs and individual’s capacity to fulfill those needs. Unfortunately, throughout history, the direct democracy systems failed, not because the concept is bad, but because of EGO&GREED which (unfortunately) are built in human nature. This is how “representative democracy” was born for example. Therefore all the ideologies you mentioned could have SOME of their characteristics present in a direct democracy system, but without the top-to-bottom control mechanism which would invariably trigger at some point one of those ideologies become predominant and slowly destroying the other useful characteristics from the other ideologies. This will invariably morph that society into a top-to-bottom controlled one. Let’s stop choosing between “ideologies” and start thinking about “control”. The first step would be the self-control of ego and greed , at personal, individual level. 😉

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Democracy was actually proven to be a mathematical impossibility, in any form. Meritocracy is where it's at. It was like this for over 5,000 years, and we've deviated from a meritocratic form of government.