tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5148972.post3069761720306211508..comments2023-09-15T09:56:16.253-03:00Comments on Composing: Composinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01739889615635395138noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5148972.post-71342462453375067752011-04-12T08:20:52.338-03:002011-04-12T08:20:52.338-03:00Thanks for posting that Phil, definitely hooks int...Thanks for posting that Phil, definitely hooks into stuff I've been trying to <a href="http://describe.blogspot.com/2011/04/how-not-to-make-difference.html" rel="nofollow">figure out</a> recently.<br /><br />Will try to blog some more thoughts on it all soon. There's some interesting aspects to this beyond direct power and politic.Scribehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08757616056135886893noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5148972.post-70269407498176296372011-04-06T19:55:59.666-03:002011-04-06T19:55:59.666-03:00Zizek expressed similar sentiment about the millio...Zizek expressed similar sentiment about the million strong anti-Iraq war march, and I think they are (sadly) both right to question the value and purpose of such marches.<br /><br />Personally I'm thinking that we don't just need the right to repeal a single MP, we ought to have a clear process for forcing a national referendum on a given subject. Something like if 1% of the voting population sign a petition, then the govt must put the issue to a national referendum. <br /><br />Of course, this would work best if both the petition and the referendum were online/mobile so that this could be done quickly and cheaply. And, of course, setting the question of a referendum is always a loaded process (so maybe the questions should be set by a cross-party committee), but I'm very disillusioned with the state of our current, very limited democracy.<br /><br />We ought to be making much more radical improvements than simply (possibly) switching to AV.Olihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04933834307809712549noreply@blogger.com