Everybody wants political reform but we all have different ideas about what it might look like. It depends where you fall on the Left/Right spectrum of course and also what time period we're talking about (over the centuries ideas have changed). It is my contention that our concept of reform is still far from complete and that some widely held beliefs deserve serious re-examination. Leaving aside (for the moment) the enormous political obstacles in the path of any reform one still has to be clear about one's ultimate goals. Lest, after much hard fighting, one achieves those goals and then finds the results are less than were hoped for. With that said, the link below leads to a lengthy essay on political theory which speculates about the historical role of Evolution in the formation of Democratic society. Few political theorists are inclined to look back much further than the Enlightenment but I have contemplated (hypothetically) the entire Neolith, and the conclusions which I draw are sharply at odds with most popular views. As one reader put it, I make an argument for the "end-state futility of politics". It is my contention that politics is a dangerous anachronism from the preindustrial era, and only by erecting institutions based on merit and random selection may we hope to truly reform our Government.
It's a long piece and most will not have the patience to complete it, but if you have an appetite for novel concepts you will be rewarded I think. I would love feedback of course, but rather than this setting, my email address follows the conclusion of the essay.
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