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Direct democracy failed to reflect the will of the group once villages grew into cities, because the information technology of the spoken word imposes a hard limit on how many people can speak and on the patience and endurance of listeners.
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As villages grew to cities, direct democracy failed to reflect the will of the group. There is a limit to how many people can speak, even at an am- phitheater, because there is a limit to peoples' patience and endurance.
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failuresupport: arguedfailure: oral scale limitfamily: scalability-and-throughput-limitgovernance-design
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