[lbo-talk] The "Rational" Voter

[Shane Mage]

Carroll Cox wrote:
>
>What it (implicitly) _recognizes, and what none of the refuations
>recognize is that elections are simply a stupid way to make public
>policy -- and that failure leads to a failure to put brain power to work
>figuring out how we can have democracy without elections.

How much brain power does it take to recognize that the democratic
system of choosing public officials  without the stupidity of elections
is simply random selection by lot, as practised by the Athenian inventors
of democracy (of course with the sanction of ostracism by popular
referendum in case of misconduct)?

Shane Mage

"This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it always was and is 
and shall be: an everlasting fire, kindling in measures and going out 
in measures."

Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 30