| TheLivingShadow said: So what am I suggesting? I won't flesh out my ideas in this post, but basically I'm saying that democracy is not the best solution, and that, in my opinion, ideally a committee of very intelligent people with complete transparency should basically be dictators; or more practically, that in order to vote, one should have to first apply and get a permit. What do you think? Too radical? |
Realization that crisis of ideas exists and the modern world is in impasse is very good by itself (now we should just wait before majority realizes that), but your idea will turn modern world of oligarchy to the world of super-oligarchy. Moreover, the problem is not in the elections or political system in general.
But if you really want to talk about it, here's my idea. Every citizen has a point table and earns points for various things like social, business activity or anything else this given society considers "good", for "bad" things like criminal activity you receive penalty. In other words. You have kids? Here's you 10 points per kid. You own an enterprise and create jobs? Here's your 1 point per every $10 you make, etc. The more points you get, the more valuable citizen you are, the more your vote will weight compared to others. It's census, but more flexible than straightforward property qualification. I do not claim it will work or it's any good though :D
The problem arises when you'll try to define "good" and "bad", "right" or "wrong" -- you do not wanna break that brick wall with your head -- since in modern western society people get brainwashed to the point when "right" and "wrong" are on the same level of acceptance and there're many "rights" and "wrongs" coexisting. When society defines these "rights" and "wrongs" after all, effectively it defines totalitarian connections within the society, no society could exist without these connections, not even modern western society, not even Netherlands, -- but realistically it's impossible to do such thing globally until entire western world will go through a shock.
