From: "Ben B." <benrkb-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: Re:Democracy
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 13:42:50 PST


Aaron Micheau wrote: 
>First of all, there are too many officials, period, in archist 
>societies.

Thats true

If there are officials, why not choose them randomly? Why not reinforce 
the concept that anyone and everyone is qualified to make decisions, 
because in  an an anarchist society that seems a fundamentally necessary 
concept. what essentially happens in all electoral groups and societies 
is that we choose our 'betters' to make decisions for us.  The people we 
think are smarter, more honest, better speakers, have better ideas, etc.  
That's just a step away from archist thought, because it 
institutionalizes the idea that some people should make decisions for 
the community, while most should not.

If everyone and anyone are qualified to make decisions then they should 
be capable of voting for themselves rather than leaving 
their leadership to the role of a dice. Though anyone may be just as 
capable of carrying out the job its probably best to give it to 
the person whom most people would prefer to see their.

And what exactly is archism?
Yours
Ben

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