David Van Reybrouck thinks we should return democracy to its roots, and select our political officials by lottery. Couldn’t be worse than what we have now.https://t.co/UTkXM3Guc4 pic.twitter.com/vpYzROkuww
— Stowe Boyd (@stoweboyd) April 23, 2018
I did not hear his talk at Bard, and as interesting as a thought experiment it would be, I wonder if he addressed the real-world sociological precedent that we already have – both the jury trial (that everyone does their best to get out of, and often does), and the grand-jury indictment process (that is nearly impossible to get out of).
So, take a bunch of randomly selected people who put their careers on hold against their will (jury), give them massively more power, add appointed officials (judges, prosecutors), lobbyists (lawyers) and career bureaucrats with ententched interests (police, prison workers and corporations that run them), and see what happens.
I am not entirely sure we would like the result.
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