Larian Studios Forums General Chat Chat (Anything) The Serious Topic or GIT (part 2)

Any kind of Referendum has in my opinion the positive and negative thing at the same time that it is closely related to the citizens living in a certain country.

Positive, because it is a perfomance of "public will".

Negative in the same sense, because the "public will" could also be manipulated by dictators (Nazi peroid).

The current political systems nowadays act like sort of HAL (Hardware abstraction layer) in modern operating systems : They provide close connection of the legislative and other parts of the state in itself to the "public" with at the same time dividing both so far that - hopingly - an ill-fated (aka manipulated) "public will" will directly go into the legislative and do what for example Nazis did.

So far, so good.

The problem is in my mind the "width" of the channel between elected representants of the state and the public. Microsoft had to invent a small driver layer to keep perfomance close enough to the hardware to make fast games possible. Directx is such a step into that direction, as far as I've understood it.

My own impression is that this channel is too "thick" in some cases, so that the public interest isn't taken to the legislative anymore, or only after passing through a big, big filter almost distorting everything.

The same structure that was erected as protection of the state can have the bad result of too much protection of the state.

I don't know how this might be solved, but at least I think that any kind of referendum is a way to "shorten" this channel.

Alrik.