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Democracy Is a Ruse
Power always rules. People are manipulated by those in power. The masses are almost always led rather than doing the leading.
At the end of the day what matters most is that people can lead relatively free private lives.
Technology and modern society are chipping away at that stated goal of democracy and allowing people to be manipulated by ginned up outrages and fears.
- georgia_peach 5y agoAgreed, if by technology you meant the disseminated word, and by modern society you meant every known arrangement of homo sapiens, before & after the flood. The Greeks figured this all out a very long time ago. It's just that most people here received an engineer's education instead of an English boarding school one, so it's all news to us!