Direct Deliberative Democracy

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“Computer mediation seems to bathe action in a more conditional light: perhaps it happened; perhaps it didn’t. Without the layered richness of direct sensory engagement, the symbolic medium seems thin, flat, and fragile.”
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“In a democracy dissent is an act if faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but its effects.”
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