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We never had democracy.​

We have never truly experienced democracy. Athens restricted voting to a narrow class: no women, no children, no slaves.

Today, we exclude children, we exclude those no longer alive, and our systems have no timelessness: each generation starts from scratch, divorced from verifiable history.

Our past is fragile; much of it is unprovable and may have shifted at decisive points. In contrast, information anchored through consensus is far harder to alter, making cryptographically verifiable AI more trustworthy than editable archives (like Wikipedia).

As a society, we forget within one or two election cycles, and coordinated narratives can turn lies into accepted truths. Even advanced AI cannot fix this without a foundation of verifiable memory. That is why we must build systems where our collective history cannot be rewritten. Only then do we begin to approach real democracy.

I am proud to say that today we have the complete stack of solutions for all these historical issues!

This article is a work in progress.

Privatocratia​

Latin Term for "Rule of the Private".

• Term: Privatocratia
• Meaning: Rule or government by private individuals or private interests.
• Derivation: from Latin privatus (private, individual) + -cratia (rule, government, from Greek kratia).
• Follows the pattern of Latinized terms like democratia (democracy) and aristocratia (aristocracy).

I may have coined this term.

Don't despair.​

And why delegated systems of government degrade without a court jester.

It's 2015, and the people in the town of Conwy can't take it anymore! They have lived the last 700 or so years without their town jester, and they had to get him back!

After 700 years, the people want their Jesters back. In 2015, the town of Conwy in North Wales appointed Russel Erwood (aka Erwyd le Fol) as the official resident jester of the town and its people, a post that had been vacant since 1295. (source)

The Jester Cuts Through The King's Bull$$it​

The purpose of a court jester is to present, in a humorous way, truths that are painful for the ego of the king and court.