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when you hear the word democracy do you think "give undesirables a say in our government"?
by crowf 5y ago
when you hear the word democracy do you think "give undesirables a say in our government"?
- anotha1 5y agoDemocracy doesn't work when the citizens are manipulated due to their lack of intellect.
- Bancakes 5y agoSo your idea of democracy is "only these people should rule you, whether you vote or not."?
- anotha1 5y agoIt's disingenuous that you're using quotes to represent something I never said. Education is lacking, democracy is suffering because of it. Anything else you interpreted is based on your own biases.
- cookiengineer 5y ago> Education is lacking, democracy is suffering because of it. We can only re-balance the power of manipulation through developing technology that values identity and transparency over fraud and misconduct (or social acceptance aka likes). Currently, the economics behind misinformation are only feasible for a handful of institutions; and that unbalanced the power of acquiring knowledge online. The Web has failed us as a technology, in the sense that its intention liberated knowledge to the people at first but then gradually pushed control over its discoverability and "trustworthyness" away from the people.
- Bancakes 5y agoDemocracy is doing just fine. Anyone can vote, fool or laureate. That's democracy, and nothing more.
- the_only_law 5y agoHow much longer can that keep up until we see some sort of strange Balkanization and increased secretarian violence. I don’t see how we can keep up the facade of a united nation where more or less two factions bubble up that are clearly opposed along irredeemable lines (personally I believe there are more than two factions but they tend to bubble up and ally into just two in a way that makes differentiation basically meaningless)
- Bancakes 5y agoI think the USA's current opponent are lobbying corporations, not terrorists or domestic insurgence.
- anotha1 5y agoTrue, you are correct, democracy specifies no specific outcome. However, my comment should have read "bad for the outcomes of a democracy."
- jfengel 5y agoYep, I sure do. And I'd always thought that undesirables were a relatively smallish percentage of the population. As long as they are, we don't actually have to decide who's undesirable. They get outvoted. It's pretty clever. Until the point where mean, angry, stupid people become a majority -- or worse, a near-majority with ancient thumbs on the scale favoring them. Then we've got a lot of very uncomfortable decisions to make.