[Foundation-l] Future Board election procedures and guidelines

[Dan Rosenthal]

On Jul 16, 2007, at 10:45 PM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote:

> On 7/17/07, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:
>>
>> Tomasz Ganicz wrote:
>>
>>> 2007/7/16, Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia.com>:
>>>
>>>
>>>> We just don't know.  I think it is not safe to assume either  
>>>> luck or
>>>> expression of preference.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> "Democracy is the worst form of government except for all those  
>>> other
>>> forms that have been tried from time to time." :-)
>>>
>>> Winston Churchill, speech in the House of Commons, 11 November 1947.
>>>
>> Churchill was very good at coining clichés.
>
>
>
> Arguably Churchill was wrong, btw.
>
> I like Thucydides line about the rule of the 5000, echoed by later  
> roman
> historians
> that during the brief rule of the 5000 Athens was ruled better than  
> at any
> other
> time (meaning during the democracy or during the rule of 30).
>
> The fact that blood based aristrocracies tend to corrupt with time,  
> does not
> mean that functionally meritocratic systems do not rule better than  
> the
> raw mob.
>
> This isn't very far off-topic, btw. Wikipedia currently has a  
> selective
> franchise
> somewhat like the early American Colonies, but based on community  
> service
> rather than land-ownership.
>
>
> --
> Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]]
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Most interesting post I've read on this list in weeks. Thank you.

-Dan Rosenthal