The Ancient Invention That Solves Corruption

#sponsored 🔒 Get 20% off DeleteMe by going to https://joindeleteme.com/spectacles and use code SPECTACLES to protect your privacy! 🙌 Nobody likes politicians. So what if we just...got rid of them? Special thanks to @RealEngineering for lending his voice for Finbarr. For citations, turn on CC. Sources listed below. — Patreon: https://spectacles.link/patreon Nebula: https://spectacles.link/nebula Merch: https://spectacles.link/shop Discord: https://spectacles.link/discord Script: https://www.spectacles.news/lottery-elections/ — About us: Spectacles is a love letter to democracy, its values, its caretakers, and its ideas. Around the world, individual rights and representative government are facing unprecedented attacks from the forces of reaction and revisionism. But despite liberal democracy’s real shortcomings and today’s all-too-fashionable cynicism, we remain committed to its preservation and improvement. Join us as we explore just what liberal democracy is, how it comes about, and how it can best be maintained in a changing world. — SOURCES & NOTES ✱ The necessary conditions, according to Page: “These four conditions—the problem has to be hard, the people have to be smart, the people have to be diverse, and the group size has to be bigger than a handful and chosen from a large population—prove sufficient for diversity to trump ability. They’re not the only conditions under which the result holds, but if they’re satisfied, diversity trumps ability.” A. Hélène Landemore. Politics without Politicians. Penguin, 2026. B. Aristotle. Politics. Aristotle, 350BC. C. James Madison. “The Federalist Papers No. 10.” Yale Law School. Lillian Goldman Law Library, November 23, 1787. https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/fed10.asp. E. Ira Lupu. “The Most-Cited Federalist Papers,” n.d. https://scholarship.law.umn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1428&context=concomm. F. Donald Kagan. The Fall of the Athenian Empire. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992. G. Martin Oswald, “Public Expense: Whose Obligation? Athens 600-454 B. C. E.” H. Citizens’ Assembly. “2013-2014 Convention on the Constitution | Citizens’ Assembly,” September 4, 2024. https://citizensassembly.ie/previous-assemblies/2013-2014-convention-on-the-constitution/. I. Bastian Berbner. “Unlikely Friendship.” Pacegallery.com, 2020. https://www.pacegallery.com/journal/unlikely-friendship-helped-legalize-same-sex-marriage-ireland/. J. Scott E Page. The Difference. Princeton, N.J. ; Woodstock: Princeton University Press, 2007. K. Josiah Ober. The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece. Verlag: Princeton University Press, 2015. L. Ober, Josiah. Democracy and Knowledge Innovation and Learning in Classical Athens. Princeton University Press, 2008. M. Hugo Mercier, and Dan Sperber. The Enigma of Reason. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2017. — 00:00 INTRO 03:50 ATHENS 08:16 AMERICA 10:48 REPRESENTATION 13:27 KNOWLEDGE 16:17 TRUST 18:13 UNITY 20:30 IRELAND 23:00 FRANCE 25:27 CONCLUSION — Select imagery/video supplied by Getty Images Includes Music by Tom Fox Lowpoly Human Rigged by IcySugar on Blendswap: https://blendswap.com/blend/21420 Ionic Column by Bumurus: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5376896 Handshake by Kamil K: https://www.printables.com/model/137305-handshake/files