As you called me to the blackboard, I looked again at your project. Out of curiosity, I watched your video 4.
As you might recall, I was not excited when you mentioned TDG in our earlier exchanges. I see that as reinventing the wheel. Our history reaches about five millennia, but the last 2,000 years are well documented. Whatever problem we face, our ancestors resolved it better or worse before.
What you explore falls under deliberative democracy. If you Google that, there is plenty of scientific material. I recall an interesting project run by Professor Peter M. Shane. They monitored two communities democratically deliberating changes in the school districts. In one case, the administrators were genuinely interested in hearing the voices of the citizens and making decisions that satisfied the most. In another case, administrators already knew what they wanted to do and manipulated the conversation to get the result they preferred.
As you might guess, in the first case, many people participated in the consultation; in the second case, people lost interest very early. You do not address that situation in your video titled: “Why We Do Not Consult.”
On the margin of the video, I met and respected many people living their lives “my way.” Someone close to me told me they would also play that song in my wake. I told them to keep the coffin closed so the public would not be scared seeing my dead body shedding tears.
Seriously speaking, a long time ago, someone counted against me when, after hearing opposite arguments, I changed my opinion on the issue in question. I was accused of changing my opinion because I always wanted to be right.
I bring up this point because, in your reasoning, you omit that some people are more diligent in learning and able to adjust their views accordingly than others. It is called leadership skills.
In conclusion, successful consulting has less to do with our personal qualifications or predispositions but more with the political freedoms allowing us to disclose and disable powerful players trying to manipulate the outcome of the consultations.
Most of my writings are about various aspects of that.
