>Hmm...maybe it’s time to try some alternatives to democracy.

>What if we chose councilors from a pool at random?

"I am obliged to confess I should sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University."

—William F. Buckley, Jr., 1963 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nf_bu-kBr4 )