083. Ancient Athenian Democracy and Plato -- Good in Theory Crossover with Clif Mark
Everyday Anarchism
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The Differences Between Ancient and Modern Democracies
In ancient Athens, it was really you're a citizen. You can go turn up. They all got together on a hill called the Pnix. And they would debate and then have a show of hands or vote in some urns afterwards. So there it was the citizens are doing it themselves. They're making the decisions. In that sense, voting is an expression of a democratic ideology. I would just think it doesn't works very well for precisely the reasons that you can tell us the Greeks thought it didn't, it didn't work very well.
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