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A ship has a captain and a command structure.
I propose to experiment with a democratic system on a large sailing ship.
Just to see how that would work out.
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"Brothers, sisters, sailors! You know who I am! I've grown up on this ship. I was her cabin boy under Smith's Second Journey to Portsmouth, and today I am asking for your vote to go north in order to best escape from this bloody Bermuda Triangle." |
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Do you think it would not work? Why not? I imagine
that the members of the ship might elect a captain
and associated command structure and proceed.
Should there be a crisis of confidence they could
hold elections again. |
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What if they need a *bail out*? |
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They would rig the elections. |
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First, you'd need to get the winds and the water out
of sailing. Then you can do this. |
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<Envisions members of 'Occupy the Queen Mary' trying to get around the Horn of Africa, freezing in tent encapments on deck, doing their 'repeat what the speaker says' routine> "We should head towards an island where they have vitamin C." "WE SHOULD HEAD TOWARDS AN ISLAND WHERE THEY HAVE VITAMIN C!" |
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Baked. Supposedly, pirate ships were traditionally run as democracies, exactly as [bungston] describes. |
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What [theircompetitor] said. |
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Thanks for those nice annotations. I was to lazy when I posted this but you guys saved the day. |
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There's some anecdotal evidence that pirates ran their ships along largely democratic lines. Certainly they were more democratic than the official fleets of the various empires, but any mutiny is essentially a case of democracy in action - so I'd suggest it's been tried before - just ask Mr Christian! |
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The Halfbakery - welcome to demicracy. |
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The 2012 election: welcome to dumbocracy... |
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Also baked, I seem to recall, on ships of the Tzar's navy during the Russian Revolution. |
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I love how the Bounty is the only case of mutiny included in the cannon, and that the one fictional account is the primary source. It's awesome and pathetic at the same time. |
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//The Halfbakery - welcome to demicracy.// Angling
for a [marked-for-tagline]. And deserves one, too. |
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This wouldn't work well at all; things can go wrong very,
very quickly on the high seas. When an the fate of entire
ship's crew depends upon a snap decision, it's no time to
discuss the matter in committee. |
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That's okay, you're not a ship captain either. |
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//I am not a committee!// That would have been
funnier if [8th of 7] had said it. |
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It started looking like a committee on the "Lost..."
boat. |
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