Have you lobbied your government? Contacted your representatives? Attended public hearings?<p>--<p>Regard collaborative policy making as a form of data processing and you will recognize the triage processes used (by necessity).<p>Social cognition as applied to intractable complexity. Divide and conquer, just like economic specialization, is a problem solving optimization.<p>Aka, The Politics of Attention.<p>Direct democracy doesn&#x27;t scale, copes poorly with subtleties. Representative democracy works pretty well, considering. But always benefits from more people participating.