Eureka, I've given basic responses to the 'question' portion of your posts, i.e., the 'marketplace' and the 'why DD as as opposed to RD'. I have also provided an answer as to why I don't have a fully developed DD system to offer.
I don't mean to be argumentative however, the fact is that the remaining content of your posts consisted of arbritary, and if I may say so, 'flippant' statements that you have yet to provide any evidence to support. I'll note that your statements to date are common concerns re: DD and which have to some extent been addressed on the DDC site and rather more thoroughly on some DD sites to which the DDC site links.
There is also a thread here which discusses some of the issues raised to date in some detail.
I'll apologise for jumping to conclusions. Statements like 'In a modern state, direct democracy is rule of the ignorant by the ignorant for no people's advantage' aren't what I'd generally expect from someone interested in 'complex affairs' or any sort of good faith discussion. However, I've since checked out some of your comments elsewhere, which indicate you are in fact an intelligent and thoughtful person.
As previously mentioned, my main purpose in posting the link was to inform people of the DDC site. My hope was that people with questions or concerns would post them on the site so that both the question and answer would be available to future visitors.
In retrospect, web forums probably weren't the best places to post the link as inevitably quite legitimate questions arise and, as demonstrated in the above thread, you end up with a substantial amount of information all over the place, not to mention having to answer variations of the same question over and over again on different sites.
I do apologise for not providing greater detail in my answers in this thread.
To expand a bit on the above, 'has not yet been bettered anywhere' is open to discussion. If one doesn't have much confidence in other citizens or prefers a society where they aren't called upon to participate in civil life, you're probably right.
However, if one has faith in democracy, warts and all, and a belief that people should have some measure of control over their government and the course of their nation, there are other societies that are a bit further along the road democracy wise than Canada. I won't get into this further right now.
As to how it could be an improvement?
Well, I think if you ask most Canadians where their priorities lie, these wouldn't be focussed on destroying the gains our society has made in areas such as health care, social services and just basic decency to support some notion of 'inevitable' corporate globalization. I don't think most Canadians believe some Canadians deserve to sleep on the streets, go hungry or live their senior years in poverty.
Most certainly didn't believe this years ago, and fought both with and within the representational government structure to build a reasonably decent and caring nation that has been over the past thirty years, and is being at an ever increasing rate today, sold out to corporate interests that don't give a damn about Canada or Canadians.
I don't think most Canadians want to lose their nation or values, and I do believe the only possibility of avoiding this is to take measures to ensure that the nation does work towards the benefit of all Canadians, rather than only a few or none at all. That is where I see DD coming in, because these measures sure as hell aren't coming from our representational system.
However, creating a DD system that meets the needs of Canadians isn't something that can just pop out of any one person or small groups mind and have any hope of success. Hence the DDC site and my hope that a variety of Canadians contribute their visions of what a citizen led democracy could be.
It's not me who needs to think about my idea, I already have. I raise DD only as an alternative that people can themselves give as little or much thought to as they choose. I have no interest in being a political huckster trying to convince others that my vision or party is the way to go. If people have a problem with this or believe that I should be trying to shove my thoughts down their throat because that's the way 'politics' works, sorry to disappoint you. I'm not interested in selling DD to anyone or arguing about the pros/cons.
Missed the thrust of the anarcho-capitalist reference though. Sorry, I overlooked the fact that some from the so called right wing also push DD. This isn't where I'm coming from.
One more link for people to read and think about if they choose:
The myth of modern democracy
