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democracy being the best choice is so ingrained in us from childhood, questioning it becomes painful. its like finding out about santa. cognitive dissonance c
by basch 10y ago
democracy being the best choice is so ingrained in us from childhood, questioning it becomes painful. its like finding out about santa. cognitive dissonance comes into play, and any critical thinking is squashed. its hard for people to even question democracy in a hypothetical environment, it being the fairest is almost established as a basic law of physics.
even the title of the article ... "lost faith" seems to imply its a bad thing to question democracy.
- mcphage 10y ago> even the title of the article ... "lost faith" seems to imply its a bad thing to question democracy. No, it merely means that previous generations did have faith in democracy. Whether that faith is well founded or not is not addressed.