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I'd like some reviews for my book please - which is a 'rewrite' of democracy to make it work again, & to incorporate all we've learned about human nature since 1789. (Published last month, so you'd be more of a gamma reader.)

This book rests on these premises:

• Our daily politics is a kind of neurosis—a 'displacement activity'—substituting for the system redesign that can resolve our crises. War, inequality and environmental overshoot are insoluble within the current political framework.

• Power is deployed more adroitly, more fairly and more safely when it is dispersed.

• For a well-functioning society, we need not to swing right or left: we require a political system by which informed majorities can craft a policy mosaic.

• Our present, inefficient form of democracy is likely to be replaced by authoritarianism, which is increasingly efficient. Reinventing democracy is not only desirable: it’s a condition for its survival.

The link will explain the book pretty well, plus you will see a couple of early reviews there. Happy to send you pdf or ePUB.

Thanks!

John wrote: "I'd like some reviews for my book please - which is a 'rewrite' of democracy to make it work again, & to incorporate all we've learned about human nature since 1789. (Published last month, so you'd..."

Dear John,

Many thanks for introducing your book- I am sure your efforts to help humanity are most sincere! :)
I am not an expert on politics, but having been a family doctor for almost 30 years, I know a thing or two about human nature :)

And I have always agreed with Socrates ( this quote is sometimes also attributed to Plato, his disciple):

"There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands".

Also, here is a link to a good little article:

"Socrates and the Failings of Democracy"

https://ichthyoid.writeas.com/socrate...

Dr Jasmine

Thank you Jasmine.

Yes, Socrates/Plato put it well, & we see today the results of ignoring the advice.

(Plato also though there should be philosopher queens - a radical thought for the era.)

All the best...