Brett Hennig: What if we replaced politicians with randomly selected people?
Bret Henig (Brett Hennig): Šta ako bismo političare zamenili nasumično odabranim ljudima?
Brett Hennig co-founded and directs the Sortition Foundation, which campaigns to institute the use of stratified, random selection (also called sortition) in government. Full bio
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one of the big questions,
o jednom od velikih pitanja,
who perhaps live in a city
koja možda živi u gradu,
zajedničkim resursima?
the rules that govern us?
pravila kojima se povinujemo?
an important question.
it's even more important than ever
da je važnije nego ikad pre,
climate change, the refugee crisis,
rastućom nejednakošću,
themselves this question
in organized societies.
dobroćudni čuvari
for the greater good of everyone.
za opšte dobro svih.
they could be those guardians,
da bi oni mogli da budu ti čuvari,
they tended to lose their heads.
imali su običaj da izgube glave.
his answer of how to live together.
njegov odgovor na pitanje o saživotu.
okrutan i neljudski.
a different kind of answer,
drugačiji tip odgovora
into hibernation for 2,000 years,
u dvehiljadugodišnjoj hibernaciji
at the modern history of democracy,
na savremenu istoriju demokratije,
to put the last 200 years.
poslednjih 200 godina.
the number of democracies.
of democracy's triumph,
1989. godine izjavio
the end of history,
da smo dosegli kraj istorije,
has been answered,
o zajedničkom životu,
living in a democracy is a good thing?
da je živeti u demokratiji nešto dobro?
keep your hands down.
ne podižite ruke.
who didn't raise their hands,
are functioning well?
dobro funkcionišu?
in the audience somewhere.
bar jedan političar tu negde u publici.
is the end of history,
je liberalna demokratija kraj istorije,
or contradiction here.
paradoks ili kontradikciju.
is about the ideal of democracy,
o idealu demokratije
are very appealing.
su veoma privlačni.
our politicians aren't trusted,
naši političari nisu od poverenja,
by powerful vested interests.
interesima moćnika.
to resolve this paradox.
da se razreši ovaj paradoks.
it doesn't work.
od demokratije; ne deluje.
who will ignore democratic norms,
koji će da ignoriše demokratske norme,
is to fix this broken system,
da popravimo sistem koji ne fukcioniše,
in our parliaments
glasove društva u naš parlament
evidence-based laws
obazrive zakone zasnovane na dokazu
"Why wouldn't this work?"
„Zašto ovo ne bi funkcionisalo?”
afterwards about it.
i razgovarajmo o tome.
je „nasumičan izbor“.
and put them in parliament.
i postavljamo ih u parlament.
for a few more minutes, shall we?
na nekoliko minuta, hoćemo li?
and you and you and you down there
vas, vas, vas, vas i vas tamo dole,
for the next couple of years.
na narednih nekoliko godina.
to make sure that it matched
kako bismo se postarali da odgovara
profile of the country
i demografskom profilu države
sample of people.
reprezentativan uzorak ljudi.
some would be old,
neki bi bili stari,
ordinary people like you and me.
obični ljudi kao vi i ja.
how we would all think,
to kako mi razmišljamo,
the moral crux of political decisions.
u moralnu srž političkih odluka.
someone of your gender,
neko vašeg roda,
and someone with your background
i neko s vašim iskustvom
would build on the wisdom of crowds.
bi se nadograđivale na mudrost gomile.
than the sum of their parts.
ali ne na vlasti.
that diversity can trump ability
može da pobedi stručnost
of societal questions and problems.
društvenih pitanja i problema.
by public opinion poll.
anketama javnog mnjenja.
would move beyond public opinion
bi se kretali mimo javnog mnjenja
one major side effect:
truly representative of society,
istinskim zastupnikom društva,
pretty sad to see that.
izuzetno tužni zbog toga.
of how democracy was done
toga kako se demokratija praktikovala
is called a kleroteria.
se naziva kleroterija.
random-selection device.
uređaju za nasumičan izbor.
randomly selected citizens
su nasumično birali građane
of their political posts.
were aristocratic devices.
sredstva aristokratije.
were a thing to be avoided.
nešto što bi valjalo izbegavati.
the ancient use of random selection
od antičke upotrebe nasumičnog izbora
of random selection in politics
nasumičnog izbora u politici
too many examples to talk about.
da o njima govorimo.
that it's going to be difficult
da će da bude teško
with randomly selected people."
nasumično odabranim ljudima.”
separate his recycling."
smeće za reciklažu.”
but overwhelming and compelling evidence
ali ogromni i neoborivi dokazi
they act responsibly.
ponašaju se odgovorno.
ne radi se o panakeji.
Would this be perfect?
will continue to exist.
to me at least, is obviously yes.
bar meni, je očigledno da.
to our original question:
things that we can do,
koje možemo da učinimo,
happening right now.
and workplaces and other institutions,
i radna mesta i druge institucije,
is doing in Bolivia.
Demokratija u praksi.
and citizens' assemblies,
sudska i građanska zasedanja,
is doing in Australia,
Nova demokratska fondacija,
is doing in the US
is doing right now.
demanding change,
društveni pokret koji zahteva promenu,
is doing in the UK.
radi Fondacija žrebanja.
to da ozakonimo.
a second chamber in our parliament,
drugi dom u našim parlamentima,
for a citizens' senate in France
za građanski senat u Francuskoj
right here in Hungary.
da se izvede i ovde u Mađarskoj.
right into the heart of government.
u samom srcu vlade.
in the current system,
elections with sortition.
i zamenimo izbore žrebanjem.
systems have been created,
torn down and replaced
(Hungarian) Thank you.
(Na mađarskom) Hvala.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Brett Hennig - Author, activistBrett Hennig co-founded and directs the Sortition Foundation, which campaigns to institute the use of stratified, random selection (also called sortition) in government.
Why you should listen
Before co-founding the Sortition Foundation, Brett Hennig wore a variety of hats: as a taxi driver, a software engineer, a social justice activist, a mathematics tutor and the primary carer of four boys. He finished his PhD in astrophysics just before his first son arrived.
After spending several disheartening years in civil society organizations and politics, Hennig became inspired by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri's trilogy on political philosophy and began investigating and researching network forms of democracy. The resulting book, The End of Politicians: Time for a Real Democracy, has been called "a book for visionaries" by New Internationalist contributing editor James Kelsey Fry and described as "a powerful critique and provocative alternative" by Professor Erik Olin Wright of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Hennig has given many talks promoting sortition and has contributed a chapter, "Who needs elections? Accountability, Equality, and Legitimacy under Sortition," to the forthcoming book Legislature by Lot: Transformative Designs for Deliberative Governance (Verso, 2019).
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