05-08-2018, 06:31 PM
There was no vote on the position of magistrate; rather, the town voted for a leader a year or so back. It now falls under the leaders duties to make such decisions as a sovereign agent based upon meritocratic values. In order to achieve this our leader hosted public discussion after consulting with their counsel. She than took into account all concerns, pros & cons, and data presented, than further consulted with their counsel, before assessing the summation of all the information gathered in order to designate her choice based upon whom she saw most fit according to the data collected.
This is a favorable system over democracy as voting does not produce value and reward merit, instead it produces an appeasement of the lowest common denominator. This is highly effective in governments where the point of the government is to pacify it's population into mindless subservience in the interest of a higher power such as theocracy or even corpratocracy, however, as we are a small town of highly involved individuals we can use a more sophisticated governmental structure where our voices are actually heard, acknowledged and given individual weight based upon merit. It also presents mod-mentality, popularity bias, and general dumb-EXPLETIVE.
This is a favorable system over democracy as voting does not produce value and reward merit, instead it produces an appeasement of the lowest common denominator. This is highly effective in governments where the point of the government is to pacify it's population into mindless subservience in the interest of a higher power such as theocracy or even corpratocracy, however, as we are a small town of highly involved individuals we can use a more sophisticated governmental structure where our voices are actually heard, acknowledged and given individual weight based upon merit. It also presents mod-mentality, popularity bias, and general dumb-EXPLETIVE.