I think in the analogy, society is the fat fuck.

There are games in which learning from your mistakes is not an option. Considering these societies you want to put in the hands of the people so they can learn from their mistakes have nuclear arsenals that could end the human experiment, this may not be a learn from your mistakes situation.

To be fair, one of my big issues with direct democracy is that it tends to be binary and makes for drastic swings. Representative democracy tends to find some sort of average of the will of the people, instead of the extreme current fad of the majority. This is the point I was trying to make that Leave(even with no deal) isn't necessarily the will of the people, or at least not the most accurate representation of it.