Some time ago (it would have to be; he's dead), R. Buckminster Fuller wrote something called No More Secondhand God. He argued that with computers and phone lines, people could vote on anything that representatives could vote on and we no longer had to have representatives. Direct democracy. Vox populi, vox dei.

Thus showing that Fuller, a very bright man, was also a very foolish man (why do the two so often go together?).

The great political scientist Oscar Wilde understood something Fuller did not. Asked if he was a socialist, Wilde replied, "No, it would take up too many evenings."

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