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The procedure we are pursuing is that of true democracy. Semi-democracy accepts the dictatorship of a majority in establishing its arbitrary, ergo, unnatural, laws. True democracy discovers by patient experiment and unanimous acknowledgement what the laws of nature or universe may be for the physical support and metaphysical satisfaction of the human intellect's function in universe.

Buckminster Fuller#28

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What does it mean?
True democracy involves aligning human laws with natural laws through experimentation and consensus.
In plain terms
Real democracy finds rules that match nature through testing and agreement.
What can you take from it?
Human laws should mirror natural laws.

Where it applies

  • legislation
  • social design

Putting it to work

  • consensus building
  • experiment-based policy

Questions to consider

  • What makes a law natural?
  • Is democracy just experimentation?

Another view

Consensus on natural laws is difficult.

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