This Democracy thing

And so, a few weeks ago when I fired off my email to my local democratically elected representative raising my concerns about an upcoming change in the copyright legislation, I expected it to disappear into the void like so many job applications.

Only to receive a response ten minutes ago, informing me that my concerns, shared with many others, had been brought to the minister proposing the legislation's attention, and that he'd received an answer that might be of interest to me.

And it genuinely was.

Democracy works.

in a monarchy, all that needs to go wrong is a one person is corrupted. in a rep dem, a small group of people, if corrupted, can fuck things up. but in a direct dem, a far larger population has to be corrupted. to give a counter arguement to myself, like a boss, conversely in a monarchy we just need one person to be considerate much more likely. hmmmm... probabilistic symmetry