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jeq: i saw that proposal, but it didn't seem adequately detailed given the nature of the change you're proposing.
it seems to me that you have to be clear about the immediate practical implications of this and what would have to be done to deal with them (if that was required) or what advantage they pose (if there are any beyond making a representative physically closer to the constituency)...the tack that you've adopted to advance the case is interesting intially, but the more the discussion plays out the more suspicious i get about what's up with it simply because of the way you frame questions in and out of consideration for yourself rather than simply addressing them--it's not obvious that this interaction is part of the advancement of the plan, and could be a space to think it out in ways that you might not otherwise do. or not: it's of course your choice.
personally, i remain skeptical.
on the anarchist thing again: still pulling on your coat about this one...so if you're a republican in a---what----platonic sense? i wonder about this because the notion of legislation being carried out entirely by committees, particularly if they are in no particular place, reminds me a little of the "night committees" in plato's "the laws"---which is also a form of republic, but not the one that typically gets referred to. it's the other one, the authoritarian one, in which an invisible state operates in secret while the population busily goes about stratifying itself.
that's make some sense of your hostility to the political--but even so, it's a problem, because anarchists are hostile to the political, but on the right there's a really quite unhappy lineage of folk who also declare themselves hostile to the political, and these folk often also think in terms of natural social hierarchies and it's just not a good space to work from, that, if you know what i mean.
so a republican who is hostile to politics: is that correct?
care to be more precise about that please?
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