The real truth is that people across the planet are fed up of

[ymetca]

59. What's that old saying?

"Lies, damned lies, and statistics".

Perhaps we should add polling to the list.

To me the democracy dilemma has always been the bell curve. The Brexit vote was split pretty evenly. On another day it might have gone the other way for a multitude of different reasons.

Which begs the question -- does mass democracy of millions of people actually work? It seems to me that the larger the number of voters the more closely we approximate the even distribution of the bell curve. Like dropping balls through a peg board. No clear majority is ever really achieved.

So maybe voting should become a more gradient and continual process, with voters able to adjust their sentiment by degrees over a period of time, and governments being more able to tweak laws as sentiments ebb and flow based on regular voter feedback. This whole "call your congressman" mentality is way outdated.

A global direct democracy, it seems to me at least, would have to work something more like that. Representative democracy has long exceeded its utility.

We have the technology to implement a global direct democracy. But everyone seems afraid of it. Most likely that is because we have been programmed by centuries of deprivation to believe that there is not enough to go around. That there are simply not enough resources for us all to pursue happiness. That fear will be hard to overcome until sufficient numbers of us can at least have some time to do what I just did here.