On 3/19/07, Mike McGrath <mmcgrath@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
What can we learn from this so we don't repeat it? http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/07/03/19/1522208.shtml -Mike
This is a problem with pure democracies that show up time and time again. Even in a democratic meritocracy it will show up at a certain size of population. The reason seems to be the difference between the theory of a democracy that people will get along if they are well educated about the facts, and the reality that a certain segment of a population will not get along no matter what. [It could be postulated that these people are needed for any population center as they will get fed up with how things are done here, and go explore elsewhere.. thus making sure that the population spreads or that new ideas are invented etc.] At a certain point in a 'purish democracy' people can gum up the works badly by disempowering the leadership through various means. There are multiple ways around this, [republics, federalism, etc], but in essence they strengthen the leadership (while putting checks and balances so that the leadership does not become a cult, dictatorship etc) So to learn this.. make sure you have a strong leadership that the population feels they have needed checks on. How you accomplish this (bi-cameral parliament, king for the year, etc) is up to the FAB to decide. -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- CSIRT/Linux System Administrator How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice" _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
