Freedom not to be forced to vote on subjects in which you have no interest
nishio As Hannah Arendt. Hannah Arendt. said, freedom from politics is one of the greatest freedoms / "People are made to think about things that are very far from their experience. "They are made to, this is a lack of freedom / so let's use QV is a meaningful mechanism for not voting, as in [Quadratic Voting
Context: /plurality-japanese/Glen in Japan Panel DiscussionTranscript machine translation#6599f369aff09e00008f2282
nishio This was an eye-opener for me, a Copernican turn, and it took me a while to understand it. This is very important, i.e., "young people don't participate in national elections, participate more" is an infringement of freedom, an arrogance of the existing power, and it fails to adapt to the fact that the appropriate "public" scale is changing due to technological progress!
Public Scale
nishio In smaller communities, people are naturally more interested in politics and participate in politics because it is much easier to see how their opinions affect their future >[nishio The current political system is dysfunctional in that people do not care, and a better "new democracy" needs to be created.
nishio I wasn't quite convinced about the connection between QV and digital democracy, but now it makes sense. In other words, QV is a mechanism to ensure "Freedom not to be forced to vote on subjects in which you have no interest".
old title: Political Participation in Small Communities
I noticed it on 2024-01-11 and posted it.
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