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It can never work, it just never has and smarter people than us have tried. Democracy will be captured and corrupted like it already has, by an oligarchic elit
by Guthur 3y ago
It can never work, it just never has and smarter people than us have tried.
Democracy will be captured and corrupted like it already has, by an oligarchic elite. It happened to the Greeks, it happened to the Romans and it's happened to us.
And now we have such hypnotic tools like mass/social media that mass delusion can be instilled at the drop of a proverbial hat. And no, Science wont save you as it can be bought too. Even tobacco and sugar companies were able to deny the obvious by purchasing a few scientists of fortune.
- elcritch 3y ago> Even tobacco and sugar companies were able to deny the obvious by purchasing a few scientists of fortune. For a time, but then the science won out. First culturally then legally for tobacco. Now sugar industry is loosing culturally and more realize the effects of overconsumption.
- Guthur 3y agoThat's not as good as it first looks, it was well understood by the turn of 20th century that there was a strong correlation between smoking and disease, it took the better part of a century to bring this to the fore. Imagine how prevalent a misconception could be if the disconnect is less clear. Science is a methodology nothing more. The problem is any appeal to human authority, it was quite easy to keep smoking and say "but the science says so...".