On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 7:51 PM, dsummersmi...@comcast.net<dsummersmi...@comcast.net> wrote:
> That's a true statement....but the problem with failure with radically new > government is that the failures are horrid: (e.g. the French Revolution, > the Cultural Revolution, Pot Pol). Which suggests that we need lots of very small scale experiments, so failures are small. > The US was lucky in that it was a very > controlled experiment. At this point, I don't think we should just roll > the dice, but use the states as labs to test new ideas in government. States are still too large for most of the experiments, I think. Even many cities are too large. Also, I think dividing things geographically is often counter to the goals of many experiments we might devise. _______________________________________________ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com
