(01-04-2016, 09:08 PM)sandaoguo Wrote: Nothing will change if the region doesn't change. Radical is what we need, because nothing we've done so far has really worked.

The last time we had a significant increase in activity came from radical political change-- a new group of players coming to power and the old group fading away. That's not really a repeatable phenomenon. So I think we should be allowing a lot more things to change in our laws and setup, and see where the chips fall.


The best thing that could happen to TSP is to get rid of our laws and start anew. Drop the tradition of requiring broad-based support for everything. Decrease term lengths and possibly add term limits to less important positions.

Basically, I think we're trapped by our own fealty to tradition.

GR, the last increase in activity we had was stopped because a group of people were deemed a threat. Instead of having a big tent we decided we wanted it to be as small and unanimous as possible. And then we drove the entire court from the region because we didn't like the way they ruled.

Honestly, I'm tired of defending tradition in TSP. It's amusing that after 13 years suddenly now we need to get radical in order to things to change. Somehow, we've managed to last this long with a variety of people coming in and out of power and the old guard giving way to a new group of people. But this time we need to burn it down and start over.

That said, shorter terms could be a good thing. But then we'd also need a shorter election cycle.