I am a supporter in general of sortition arrangements.
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I am a supporter in general of sortition arrangements. Pick random people of an eligible population to make or inform decisions, they’re likely to be as good if not better than self-selecting politicians or worse, ‘merit’ selected elites.
That the logical extent of this argument is monarchical, in that a King is a randomly selected person who had no choice in his birth or elevation, is a paradox I choose not to engage with
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It’s the common problem of historical monarchies. One monarch will be boring, bookish, the next one a bit of a sports fan, the one after that a murderous sociopath. There’s no telling with accidents of birth!
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@liamvhogan sure, if our monarch was randomly selected every three years or so then I'd have a lot fewer issues with a ceremonial head of state
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@liamvhogan What is sortition if not an Redundant Array of Ephemeral Monarchs?
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@liamvhogan "Citizen's Jury apologist Liam Hogan" is a phrase I never thought I'd write.
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Where things begin to go wrong is where you elevate people to fame and influence and power by sheer accident but allow them to believe that it was merit (cf. pop stars, celebrities). Or, when you have a process of selecting people to positions of influence that superficially is about ‘merit’ but is actually about raw power and domination (cf. the US Supreme Court).
Tell me that the United States wouldn’t be better served by making a regular random selection of qualified judges to be temporary Supremes, rather than what is in fact a political rule by judges-for-life
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Suddenly, @ben_hr enters the conversation
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@ben all power to the Random Soviets
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@liamvhogan Shit mate, didn't see the previous lack of sordition, as you were
