Quote Originally Posted by wufwugy View Post
I don't think there is any difference between one dick and 51% dicks. Even if you extract the trolls from this experiment, I think the billboard still devolves into trivialities based on all the non-troll grievances people would have.



Well, this is already how our democracies work. Our governmental policies do not come from experts or any position of credibility. On any sort of issue that government makes policy, the vast majority of voters are these "most useless idiots" whose influence enacts terrible policy.



I think this is a common misconception. Anarchy, as a political system, has nothing to do with lack of rules, but with lack of a taxing rule-giver. Democracy is where the decider of rules are citizens of the system. You are on point if you say that in a democracy, the students would develop bodies to set rules on this billboard, but my point is that this is an inherent contradiction in democracy since the philosophical foundation of democracy is the will of the voter. The principles engaged by the desires of one voter or by a collection of 51% of voters are still the same.
OK, poor understanding of anarchy. But this isn't democracy. Democracy would be saying to everyone, let's all put ideas forward for what we should do with the board, the most popular few ideas can be put to a vote, and the winner gets to manage what happens to the board for the next 5 years at which point we can reassess. Only problem being that within that 5 years they would have sold a chunk of theh board, changed the voting system to favour the incumbent and brought in a bunch of media hounds to promote them prior to the election.