which brings to mind the old William F. Buckley Jr., who famously remarked that he would rather be governed by the first 2,000 names in the Boston telephone directory than by the faculty of Harvard University.

But the idea of randomly selecting leaders as a leveling distribution is as old as Athens. We still practice it in Jury selection in much of the world.

So this experiment in Belgrade might be worth watching and it wouldn't surprise me at all if they outperform previous and regional governments.

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prmph 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

You comment is a bit unclear as to its point.

These new batch of people are not randomly selected; they are thought of as more suitable to rule due to their being academics and scientific/technical experts, rather than lifetime politicians. Same as the old politicians who were cut from a certain cloth.

The cloth is now different, but a cloth it remains.

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Abishek_Muthian 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

"Only those who do not seek power are qualified to hold it." - Plato

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vconnor 4 hours ago | parent [-]

If only there was a law to uphold this.

I would love to be governed by 500 average Joes and Janes, chosen at random, for a mandatory 4 years of (political) conscription.

But eventually they will themselves vote to abolish this in favour of career politics. It is one of those cursed problems there are no valid solutions to.

	▲	HPsquared 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Just have a monarchy that only exists to enforce that one rule.
	▲	qwytw 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		> If only there was a law to uphold this. To be fair even if that worked out somehow they would be dominated by the professional bureaucrats running the civil service and other day to day government activities. Effectively it would turn into a technocracy with some degree of oversight.