The vocabulary of democracy's architecture
We lack a rich vocabulary for describing what the architecture of democracy will look like in the future. I've been inventing words to better describe how I think democracy must adapt to increasing levels of specialization. Words like "decentralization" or "socialism" or "capitalism" are overused.
I've spent more than 20 years writing software, and when I write software I am offered a much richer vocabulary for the architecture of complex systems. Why don't we have such a rich vocabulary for the specifics of the political systems that we might build?
As to how democracy might adapt to increasing levels of specialization, I've been thinking of this system, which takes the trends of the last 100 years and carries them forward into the future. In particular, I assume our current system of committees will become independent legislatures. See what I wrote in “ Committee size is the same as efficiency: the central bank versus the legislature.”
I refer to this as demodexio, a system that balances the people and the highly skilled specialists (dexio being Greek for "skilled"). We should want a nomenclature that is somewhat more precise than older phrases such as "checks and balances." And we should avoid those words that are overused.
