The fall of Athens makes so much sense now.
Care to sumarize how the US would disintegrate with the abolition of the electoral college? Or does this contribution of yours fail to be the first that isn't utter shit?
Rorschach, to say that people will be apt to lose their self-government because they fail to appreciate it properly seems a bit far-fetched to me. At best, the idea looks to me like emotional wishful thinking. The masses are fickle, the masses are ignorant. True enough. But any kind of automated plutocracy is, by definition, not a government of the people. With modern technology and communications, it takes very little discontent to brew destruction. This is both a blessing and a curse to the democratic process, which is going to be a huge factor paving the next few decades.
I only read once very quickly through your posts, so I apologize if I glanced over some section in which you clarified how you think a select few might be selected in an aristocratic fashion. Aristocracy definitely made sense in its own eras, but highly doubt its potential for our own. The present corporate environment invites far too much corruption for an oligarchy to be a virtuous path for us.