From: | Antonio Rossin <rossin(at)tin.it> |
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Date: | Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:22:57 +0100 |
Subject: | Re: [WDDM] Agree or Disagree |
Esi wrote: (snipped by antonio) Hi DD friends - especially Hamid and Luca, I wonder whether you knew the old say: Top-down implemented policies with a bottom-up origin are the only ones that function effectively. To which, let me add: Democracy, to be such, must fit the needs of just the inhabitants who live in a definite territory. In conclusion, if the local inhabitants of a definite territory were able to give themselves, i.e. grassroots bottom-up, collective rules and policies and were able to control the officials who had been committed by the same local inhabitants to implement those rules and policies, their social arrangement should be called "Democracy". Accordingly, two problems (at least) arise. First: the larger is the territory, the more difficult is the collective agreement on common rules and policies. Second (and far more difficult to solve): at the "grassroots" social level, people seem to be very reluctant to take upon themselves any direct responsibility for originating bottom-up policies. Accordingly, unless these people were trained to accept this kind of direct responsibility (they should have been learned to do so from babyhood on) how could you pretend that they will accept the kind of direct responsibility for social policies also known as direct Democracy? What do you think? Best regards antonio |