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St_Andrew
I <3 NYC

Registered: May 2003
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
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| quote: | Originally posted by Glorie
jag vill gärna läsa den tack! |
hmm som sagt, lite nerdy! är inte jättebra förklarat heller, samt att min egelska verkar ha varit på dåligt humör den dagen... så fråga på det ni inte förstår...
Democracy as we use it today obviously isn't the perfect way, it has a lot of downsides. I have been thinking a lot lately of what should really be the perfect way of ruling a society, and then one beautiful day it hit me, an “open source community”, isn't that the perfect way? Everyone can see what decisions are made and see the reasoning behind it. Everyone can participate in the decisions, if they want and are interested. First i thought about a much more extreme way of doing this but i realized it shouldn't work due to a lot of good reasons that i don't want to bore you with.
The structure
In a normal open source project there is maximum a couple of thousand developers, BUT in a country there is millions of people so the biggest problem is to coordinate all this. This system (let's call it openism) will consist of two chambers and one administration.
The first chamber
The first chamber will have about 500 members (vary a lot depending on the size of the country), they will work full time on this and they are elected by the people through general elections. Their main job is to vote, coordinate the second chamber's work and prepare proposals together with the second chamber.
None in the first chamber can in any way own stocks or be affiliated with any company or similar, nor can none in this chamber accept ANY kind of sponsor money from ANYONE! All this to avoid the kind of corruption we have today.
The Second chamber
This is where things are getting better, it's also here where things are getting more complicated, the second chamber consists of the people of the country/state/smaller community. In a big country it may seem to be a bit messy and hard to handle, and yes it may be, but that's what the first chamber and the administration is for (i will write more on this later). Every citizen will have their own login to this “forum / sourceforge-like / nothing you have ever seen before” site. Now i am pretty sure you are thinking “that would NEVER work”. But I'm pretty sure it would. First of all we have to take into consideration that the 95% of the population just don't give a shit about politics and won't bother to help the community, and this is the big different from direct democracy, here it will only be the people interested and they won't vote (in normal cases). In a country like USA, 5% is a lot of people. This will be solved by a HUGE first chamber, in the US case, maybe about 10 000 persons. That's a small price to pay for real democracy in my opinion.
The assignment of the second chamber is to write and discuss proposals together with the first chamber. This is done by discussing in “small” groups with different topics. After a certain amount of time the group either has to have a common proposal to the first chamber or a maximum of five proposals. The first chamber then vote for which proposal which is the best. If more then 70% of the population is against the result of a first chamber voting, they can lift the decision.
The administration and the chairman
The chairman is the person who gets most votes in the election. His/her task is to appoint the administration and lead the first chamber, he/she has no more voting power then any other person in the first chamber.
The administration consist of “not so many” members, each responsible for a certain area (fiscal, health care etc). Each of the administration members also have some first chamber members with them (everyone in the first chamber has a administration member as their “chief”).
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Feb-04-2004 17:01
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SteveTranz4ever
trancEaddict 4ever™

Registered: Apr 2001
Location: La La Land
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Feb-04-2004 17:53
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