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Planetary Democracy:
"sustain humans on our planet. Also, 99-percent-programmed humans usually have been doing a lot of the right things for the wrong reasons. What we think of as side effects are usually evolution’s main events. The time has come when we must participate directly in the mainstream of Universe, instead of only accidentally, while playing lethally-biased, exclusive-survival games instead of the all-inclusive main show.
“When our forebears evolved the system of democratic representation of the United States all the first representatives were well and favorably known to their neighbors. Everybody knew them. Their term of office was predicated on the realization that they would have to go to the central meeting place in Philadelphia by foot or by horse over footpaths, Indian trails, or very small highways, stopping overnight at inns and talking with everybody along the way. And while in Philadelphia-- or later in Washington-- three or four important letters might come from Europe during the whole year you were there. Everybody at the capital knew what the letters said. They all talked about the letters with one another. Then all of the representatives started back homeward talking to the people”
