The “Looking at Democracy” contest chose its winners last week. You can view them by clicking here. 

Unfortunately none of my three video entries promoting sortition (http://bit.ly/12cm9KW, http://bit.ly/107tsEP, http://bit.ly/10kD782) were chosen. It seems the judges steered away from any proposals for fundamental or structural change. 

 

My plans now are to continue on the journey I started in the mid-1980’s when I wrote The Common Lot as a novel (as yet unpublished) with the premise of what it would be like to have a sortitionally-chosen legislative jury of ordinary citizens. Since then I’ve written other versions and two screenplays. I will focus now on producing one of those scripts.

I dearly want to instigate a broad review of what makes a democracy real. Should any of you want to join in the pursuit of producing or supporting my feature film, please contact me.