![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The most dramtic way to explain this involves a simple diagram: What if a small group of people got sneaky and tried to legally hijack the government. I can't wait to tell people about this wonderful new idea."īut there was a huge problem. I said to myself, "Hurray! This is a personal, direct, easy to understand system. Such a government grows exponentially with each layer so while only 125 people are represented after three layers, 15,625 are represented after six, 1,953,125 are represented after 9, and 244,140,625 people can be governed with only 12 layers. Everyone on the planet teleconferences with four other people, and elects a representative to teleconference with four other representatives, and so on until the planet's business was resolved in a final committee of five people. I tried to design a new system of government inspired by what I thought the borg should be like which I named borgocracy. Or so I thought when I first heard about them. Your memories and patterns of mind would be "backed up" in minds and computers across the galaxy, effectively producing a sort of immortality. Joining the borg should feel wonderful, you get smarter, stronger, more perceptive, and have more intimate connections with more people. What gives!? The borg should be glorious. They are constantly spout monotone slogans like "Resistance is futile," and "We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own." Have you noticed the problem? Literally billions of minds worth of intelligence and they are reduced to slogans?! And none of those billions has ever possessed the "technology" of fashion? And even if they did have some sort of aversion to colors, surely they would agree that more bits of information are transmitted with vocal inflection than monotone speech. They pull out eyeballs to plug scanners into the optic nerve, never take baths, and have built in needles that inject nanotech devices into your blood stream that will wire your brain into their hive mind in thirty second flat. The Borg is a character/race from the Star Trek universe composed of many sentient beings tied together as a hive mind by lots of cyborg technology. I'm going to write this up using the chain of ideas that got me to it because, though it will not be quite so short and simple, I think the it will make for a more memorable and entertaining read: Subtitled: A Loophole In Representative Democracy ![]()
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