Who Said Democracy Meant Voting?

This is not another democracy talk telling you to go vote.
Ancient Athens invented democracy. For most of it, they didn’t hold elections.
Instead, they filled public offices by drawing names. Any citizen could be called up to govern — the same way you get called for jury duty. They had a word for it: sortition. And they considered it the only method fair enough to actually count as self-rule. Elections, they worried, would always hand power to whoever had the money, the connections, and the loudest voice.
Somewhere along the way, we swapped sortition out for elections — and mostly forgot the…

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