Re: [EM] participatory democracy

2006-06-30 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 12:24 AM 6/30/2006, Anthony O'Neal wrote: >Nanson (that Australian fellow who created Nansons method, which is >the only Condorcet method to have ever been implemented in a real >election, something worthy of note since it was one of the simpler >ways to do Condorcet) created a method over 1

Re: [EM] participatory democracy

2006-06-29 Thread Anthony O'Neal
It's a chaotic system, in that there is no precise, neat, structureset up in advance. However, the human nervous system is organized pretty much like this, from the ground up.How about joining Metaparty?(And you can be sure that most of us will support other efforts thatfollow similar principles. O

Re: [EM] participatory democracy

2006-06-29 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 12:03 AM 6/29/2006, Damien Morton wrote: >I had a revelation recently about a new kind of political party that >might well have a chance of succeeding in a two-party democracy. You have seen something that resembles what some others have seen, in certain ways, and not in others. Some of what y

[EM] participatory democracy

2006-06-28 Thread Damien Morton
I had a revelation recently about a new kind of political party that might well have a chance of succeeding in a two-party democracy. Whilst representative democracy was an excelent choice in a time when communication and travel were measured in days, weeks and months, participatory democracy is e