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>> The only problem is that the warring factions know this and will do everything they can to conceal the reality of the situation so that the people do not exe
by Xelbair 7y ago
>> The only problem is that the warring factions know this and will do everything they can to conceal the reality of the situation so that the people do not exercise the power that they have. And they have been very successful at it. The amount of people who believe that democracy is somehow inherently good for the people is beyond my belief.
Democracy is neither evil nor good. It is just a popularity contest. Merit doesn't matter - only popularity does.
- patentatt 7y agoSurely you can see some causal relationship between the two though? On a “whole society” scale, how is merit defined? If you come up with some rigid concrete definition, someone else may disagree. So democracy stands for the proposition that the most reliable way to define merit is to trust the majority of people’s consensus. How else would you propose that merit be defined and evaluated, long term, on the scale of an entire society?
- Xelbair 7y agoCounterpoint - rise of populism. It is popular, but useless. I do not have a better system, but i do not lie to myself that democracy is perfect.