Recursive Democracy and the Cognitive Limits of Authority Core Thesis:Power must operate at the largest scale still cognitively intelligible to those it affects.Democratic failure at scale is not primarily a moral problem. It is a cognitive one. When authority exceeds the limits of human understanding, participation collapses into ritual, accountability dissolves into abstraction, and governance mutates into administration. Moral Consensus Recursive Democracy (MCRD) begins from a simple premi...
