<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Democracy on Cassette Future Magazine</title><link>https://anarchygames.org/magazine/tags/democracy/</link><description>Recent content in Democracy on Cassette Future Magazine</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en-us</language><lastBuildDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2026 12:18:47 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://anarchygames.org/magazine/tags/democracy/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Notes on Galactic Democracy: The Common Species Know What They Want, and Deserve to Get It Good and Hard</title><link>https://anarchygames.org/magazine/2026/03/notes-on-galactic-democracy-the-common-species-know-what-they-want-and-deserve-to-get-it-good-and-hard/</link><pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2026 12:18:47 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://anarchygames.org/magazine/2026/03/notes-on-galactic-democracy-the-common-species-know-what-they-want-and-deserve-to-get-it-good-and-hard/</guid><description>&lt;h1 id="notes-on-galactic-democracy-the-common-species-know-what-they-want-and-deserve-to-get-it-good-and-hard"&gt;Notes on Galactic Democracy: The Common Species Know What They Want, and Deserve to Get It Good and Hard&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;h3 id="文化的砂漠の知的貧困について"&gt;&lt;em&gt;文化的砂漠の知的貧困について&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;The anthology arrived in my neural feed without ceremony — &lt;em&gt;Voices from the Cultural Void: Dispatches from the Bogart Stations&lt;/em&gt;, compiled by the independent press collective at Callisto Ring. No Earth Network News coverage. No Ceres Exchange trending algorithm pushing it into anyone&amp;rsquo;s recommendations. Just five hundred pages of the most uncomfortable cultural criticism published this decade, sitting quietly in my queue like a debt I already knew I owed.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Is Earth Still a Liberal Democracy?</title><link>https://anarchygames.org/magazine/2026/03/is-earth-still-a-liberal-democracy/</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 23:21:56 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://anarchygames.org/magazine/2026/03/is-earth-still-a-liberal-democracy/</guid><description>&lt;h1 id="is-earth-still-a-liberal-democracy"&gt;Is Earth Still a Liberal Democracy?&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;コア・システムの権威主義的転換を調査する&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Mira Chen poured tea while she explained how her grandmother&amp;rsquo;s letters from Earth have been getting stranger. &amp;ldquo;She keeps asking if we&amp;rsquo;re &amp;lsquo;still free&amp;rsquo; out here in the frontier settlements,&amp;rdquo; Mira said, settling into her chair at the community center on Kepler-442b. &amp;ldquo;I told her we never stopped being free. But then she asked me the question that&amp;rsquo;s been keeping me up at night.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The Interstellar Assembly's Latest Resolution: No One Ever Went Broke Underestimating Galactic Intelligence</title><link>https://anarchygames.org/magazine/2026/03/the-interstellar-assemblys-latest-resolution-no-one-ever-went-broke-underestimating-galactic-intelligence/</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 23:20:38 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://anarchygames.org/magazine/2026/03/the-interstellar-assemblys-latest-resolution-no-one-ever-went-broke-underestimating-galactic-intelligence/</guid><description>&lt;h1 id="the-interstellar-assemblys-latest-resolution-no-one-ever-went-broke-underestimating-galactic-intelligence"&gt;The Interstellar Assembly&amp;rsquo;s Latest Resolution: No One Ever Went Broke Underestimating Galactic Intelligence&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I spent three days in the Assembly&amp;rsquo;s public galleries this week, watching representatives debate Resolution 4827-C on &amp;ldquo;Universal Safety Standards for Quantum Fabrication.&amp;rdquo; She poured synthetic coffee while she explained why citizens need protection from their own 3D printers.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;Unregulated fabrication poses existential threats,&amp;rdquo; declared Representative Torres from Luna Station. The gallery nodded solemnly. Nobody mentioned that her homeworld has been printing everything from dinner to housing components for two centuries without incident.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>