Doomed To Repeat It

I got really excited when I was listening to NPR this morning on my way to work because they were interviewing Raj Patel, author of the new book The Value of Nothing, and he mentioned that in Greek democracy, there were no elections, but citizens were chosen at random to serve. He also thinks that we should apply this system again, at least at the local level.

This is exactly what I had talked about a couple of years ago in my other blog. Well, not exactly – the prompt was to write about how to divide Members of Congress into committees, but I did expand the idea to being randomly selected for Congress as well.

I had no idea that Greek democracy worked that way thousands of years beforehand. Need to learn a lot more comparative law, apparently.

Anyway, why aren’t we doing this anymore? I could already be ruling my city council with an iron fist!