Arthur, while I agree 100% on your analysis of why current systems of governance are hopelessly inadequate for today’s complex inter-connected world (and I elaborate on this theme in my own book Why Democracy Failed, as well as in numerous articles I’ve written here on Medium) I can’t agree with your analysis for one fundamental reason: you make an analogy with a living body that, as you rightly point out, requires no “governing body” in order to function adaptively. But bodies aren’t made of generic cells randomly “liking” something. Bodies are made of highly specialized cells, each adapted for its particular function. We could no more ask a brain cell to take over duty in the liver than we could ask a bone cell to filter impurities out of our blood. So a far more telling analogy would be to organize according to competence, rather than proposing a utopian free-for-all. Remember: it is precisely because the typical person today knows nothing and understands nothing that populists on all sides have so much appeal. Populism only works when the average person is so ignorant and simple-minded that they can’t see through the pathetically obvious lies and infantile false promises. Relying on ordinary people to run “the body politic” is akin to relying on a mass of generic cells to self-organize and thrive. Even jellyfish require specialist cells in order to function. So yes, we don’t need representatives and we definitely don’t need political Parties. But we equally don’t need ‘net rule by mob either.