This is something a little interesting for friday! The Us Now Documentary is Directed by Ivo Gormley, and explores how web2.0 is changing the ways we interact with the world and how the emerging power of mass collaboration will drive the future. A little techy, but interesting enough at first glance!! You can actually watch the whole film on YouTube right here. (via ViralBlog)
I’m not sure I’d want every uninformed member of the public deciding everything. I’d be much happier deferring to elected experts on most issues – particularly those on which I have little information or education (ecconomic policy, nuclear science etc.) I certainly wouldn’t want government policy written by everyone like a wikipedia page – even the political wikipedia pages always come with warnings of how unbalanced the article may be, so god knows what it’d be like if they were acted upon. In short I think direct democracy would be a nightmarish mob rule.
Too true Tom. Was it Mr Wilde who said Democracy is the bludgeoning of the people, for the people, by people?
And how many would vote. I’d say unless it was compulsory you’d get people with specific agendas skewing the vote. The rest are watching Master Chef.
haha. Indeed, I couldn’t agree more!
@Everyone
This is exactly the mindset that keeps people pacified in fear. Not only do people believe that they themselves will not be able to create change, they believe there are not enough intelligent or capable beings around them to create positive change even if they did have the power to do so.
Obviously with a transition of power, mistakes are possible. But with the amount of mistakes being made today by current politicians, I don’t think there would be a catastrophic difference. There are more intelligent people than you would think, and they have the power to change the minds of those around them just as political parties and corporations do today. But on a much larger and more disseminated scale.