After all, if there was ever a vacuum to be filled, an opportunity to jump start radical democracy, this was it. Wired editor Louis Rossetto explains just how radical this democracy could, and in his opinion, ought to be in an interview in this week's San Francisco Bay Guardian . Right now, most people who have been educated believe that governments are necessary, and that electoral politics is the highest form of democracy. Indeed, they equate electoral politics with democracy. And that may have been true when these ideas of representative governments were formulated in opposition to the high-handed rule of monarchs in the 18th century.
People believe electoral politics is democracy because they have been brainwashed, period.
So radical, in other words, we won't have to go through the charades like the one played out this week ever again. On the one hand, that prospect is awfully tempting. It'd sure save us all bunches of money, money we now spend to be repeatedly insulted in 30 or 60 second jolts interrupting our regularly scheduled daily dosage of televised sedation. Doing away with these pesky elections, chucking it all and starting from scratch packs quite an emotionally appealing wallop. For starters, we'd have to scrap the US Constitution.